AG Pool Audio System.

[hrsdennis]

Hey gang, why not go all out. Underwater speakers. Check them out.

http://www.shadebuilder.com/underwater_speakers.html

I would check them out myself if the price were under a hundred. But that's just me.

Enjoy the tunes and the pools, Dennis

[sailork]

I've got the bigger Yamaha outdoor speakers on the yacht. One pair on the deck, one pair down below. I bought them because they didn't take much power to drive and put out better bass than the smaller speakers. The only caveat is that they have a little bass "hump" somewhere just below a bass voice. You have to eq it out or they sound a little boomy. The upside is that if you eq it out they sound very very good. We tend to range Stan Kenton, AC/DC, Willie/Waylon so it's a mighty mixed bag and the speakers really never disappoint. They easily drown out the diesel, wind, waves, and an occassional angry tugboat pilot honking at., could it be us?

They'd make wonderful pool speakers and Fry's and Best Buy often have them on sale for $99/pair. Plus you can say "Someone from the yacht club recommended them to me, Pip Pip!"

Link to said speakers at Amazon

[Phillbo]

Malibu wire for low voltage outdoor lights works great for speaker wire ... I have 4 speakers in my yard using the malibu wire to power them. I use 2 recievers in the house so I have seperate volume control for inside / outside.

Speakers are Bose 151 Enviromental (10 years outside in the sun, rain and sprinklers and they still sound great) out in the yard and klipsch for under teh patio.

try the malibu wire, you don't even need conduit in the ground then.

[sailork]

That sounds nearly ideal Phillbo. Have you had any trouble with corrosion in the connection or has it held up fine? I'm wondering if I'll need to solder on a terminal...

[Phillbo]

I've never had any corrosion issues.. I live in Aridzona though.. nothing rust out here

[sailork]

Yeah, I thought of that after I sent it. I think Gold rusts here in Houston...

[CarlD]

I listened to the Yamahas and the Bose, and to my ears, the Boston Acoustics gave a truer, smoother sound. But, then again, the BA Voyager 6's are at a completely different price point. The great thing about speakers and audio in general is there is NO best, just what you like and makes you happy. That's what's best.

Malibu wire should be OK since it's pretty heavy and stranded, but I preferred to go to 14gauge multistrand. H-D sold it for $.39/foot, which is pretty cheap. I remember Monster Cable selling the same stuff for $16./foot! Yeah, really! Maybe they worked for BioGuard at one point? I try to keep everything covered. The boxes for the speaker connections on the wall are covered, too.

I use short jumpers with gold pins to gold sockets. The speakers are under the eaves so they don't get direct weather--and come the fall, they come down in less than 5 minutes with no tools.

Remember when wiring speakers to make the wire length to each side EXACTLY the same length, even if you have to wrap up a section of cord and hide it. It's very important if you want them both sound the same and not have to struggle with the balance knob.

[jabbajean]

We just got a water proof, wireless speaker from Brookstone. You plug the transmitter into your stereo and carry the speaker where ever you want it to go. You can also hook your ipod up to the speaker..I LOVE it and I don't worry about splashing or get stuck in the rain.
Jay

[CarlD]

We just got a water proof, wireless speaker from Brookstone. You plug the transmitter into your stereo and carry the speaker where ever you want it to go. You can also hook your ipod up to the speaker..I LOVE it and I don't worry about splashing or get stuck in the rain.
Jay

Now if you can get to be solar powered (or at least recharging when it's off) you won't need to change batteries all the time.

But we have backing up to us, and a few houses up, in one of the "elephants around the watering hole" McMansions, a hip-hop record producer. He seems to think when he's at his pool the whole neighborhood needs to "share" in his crummy taste in music.

So I have 200w/ch on tap if necessary to drown him out, and you can't do that with wireless.

[sailork]

Good lord this thread is amusing. I was just sitting out by my pool with the Old Man and he was blustering on about "Altec Lansing Voice of the Theatre" speakers. I figured he was mistaken about the sound quality since I've never heard them. We'd just gotten back from working on the boat. It couldn't have been much more apropos.

Carl, you won't need that 200 watts to drown out the Hip Hopster when we dig your new in ground 9.5 meter poolside horns. I'd suggest 6 of the biggest EV drivers you can afford. Drive it with a "Zen" Class A amplifier.

Boats, Hi Fi, Swimming Pools.... Is the next thread Bikes? Cars? Sun Ra?

Maybe we'll descend into a rapturous geekdom of computer controlled bleach infusers... Anybody got a PDP-12 that times his pump? Maybe an old Origin that calculates the rate that his bleach burns off based on diurnal time, a thermometer and a sun brightness sensor?

Of course, maybe I just need to get out more.