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Okay, if this is you, raise your hand. Cold drinks are in the cooler
on the patio or deck, every lawn chair you own has been pulled out from
their hiding places. You have brought out your best set of plastic
cups, bowls, plates and serving trays loaded with your favorite snack
foods and cold beverages. The lawn games have been dusted off and set
up in the yard and the kiddie pool has just been topped off. Now you
need to get the finishing touch running, the tunes! You go to your
living room and take your tower speakers to the window and prop them up
to blast your favorite tunes out to your yard. Wow, your party is set
now! So let's discuss how this situation can be much easier on you and
your wallet!
First of all, I am not saying there is anything
wrong with putting your speakers in the window. I've done it before
myself! There is a better way and I want to tell you how and why. But
are you ready to hear it?
Putting your home speakers in the
window to get music to your yard is effective, to a point... The amount
of power that it takes to get music to cut though the outside air to
the far reaches of your yard is mind boggling, to say the least. Most
of today's home amplifiers don't have the power to keep up with the
high amounts of power required for this task. The distance from your
speakers in the windows to your listening area can be much reduced by
placing speakers in your yard or landscape closest to your listening
area. This will require much less power from the amp to get the sound
to your ears. Which in turn saves your amplifier and extends its life
tremendously!
Now you could take your home stereo speakers out of
your living room and put them down on your patio or setting them up in
your yard, but is this the right thing to do? (wow, that was a long
sentence!) If you don't mind letting the moisture from the ground or
the night air eat away at the cabinets on your speakers. Or if you
don't mind the creepy bugs crawling into them and then letting
themselves loose in your house after you bring them back in. And if the
idea of having a drink spilled on them, a football through the woofer
or kids knocking them over doesn't bother you, then go ahead! Take your
home stereo speakers outside and see just how long they last! But don't
say I didn't try to warn you!
Outdoor speakers
have many advantages in this respect. They are water resistant, capable
of handling being left outdoors for all the seasons. They can be placed
anywhere in your yard or landscape, close to your listening areas. And
as I explained before, this helps save your amplifier and extend its
life by not having to be cranked up just to hear the music. They are
smaller in size and can be hidden or camouflaged to blend into you
landscape, gardens or patio. And last but not least, once you set up
your outdoor speakers, you never have to tear them down or reset them
up again for the next party. And that leaves you more time to find that
old lawn darts set you have hiding in the attic!
The Outdoor Speaker Guy |
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