Who takes speakers outside?

I love listening to tunes outdoors. So much so, that I always try to jump in on threads of outdoor speakers whenever they pop up here at AK. I've got three systems that I use outdoors, but usually opt for the biggest. The small one has an advantage of only taking about 15 minutes to setup. Here's some links:

Big system

Medium system

Small system

These are old threads, and the picture links have broken (again). I don't feel like fixing them again, so you'll have to click the attachments to see the pictures.
 
I remember inviting all of my neighbors to a bar-b-q a couple of times each summer just so I could break out the system. I had a huge four bedroom house with an immensely huge backyard big enough for picnic tables and kids running around. So, loud music is great to drown out the noise of the kids yelling and everyone is enjoying the music. The local PD shows up and says the neighbors complained about the noise so I say "how could that be cause all my neighbors are right here"? So, I asked the cops if they had eaten lunch yet and invited them to eat and get to know the community. But, this was back in the seventies....
 
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House de Kris said:
I love listening to tunes outdoors. So much so, that I always try to jump in on threads of outdoor speakers whenever they pop up here at AK. I've got three systems that I use outdoors, but usually opt for the biggest. The small one has an advantage of only taking about 15 minutes to setup. Here's some links:

Big system

Medium system

Small system

These are old threads, and the picture links have broken (again). I don't feel like fixing them again, so you'll have to click the attachments to see the pictures.
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Kris, Man that is cool! Where in the great Lone Star State are you?
 
Having read some of the neighbor comments, lest anyone think I'm annoying the neighbors... nearest neighbor is about 1/4-1/2 mile away and you have to drive through thick woods to get there. We're on a dead end road, surrounded by 250 acre farm and that land is surrounded by another couple hundred acres and THAT land is surrounded by lake (I essentially live on a peninsula)
 
I've obtained four more of those black bass bins. My goal was to be able to create a surround setup in the field in front of the house.

They require SO much storage space, I don't know if I'll ever make it happen.

It would be cool though.
 
No pictures, but I played music for a graduation party with a pair of 901s and a pioneer integrated once. The sound did not really carry, but it sounded great there on the patio.

I would like to do a movie sometime in the summer, and invite the neighbors.
 
Guilty!

First time I ever bought a 100' roll of wire was to run speakers outside.

NS1000Ms.

That was about 20 years ago.

A few years ago I bought a aingle JBL EON 15 primarily for outdoor use.
 
VOTTs, 828H bottoms with 511B horns, in the shop building. I rolled em outside once for a patio party, they sounded fantastic from 40 ft. away. I've been upgrading things, can't wait to do it again next spring.
 
Ancient years ago used to listen outside with a Magnavox system in mono. Played my rock music loud. No complaints from the neighbors. My dad used to play his opera with the windows open. No complaints as far as I know. But was it fun.
 
Once upon a time, I was going to install some outdoor speakers, but I never got around to it. So, last spring I bought a nice little KEF Bluetooth speaker which I can take outside and pair with my MP3 player or phone or IPad. The speaker is mono, but I can buy two if I want stereo. So far, I haven't bothered to buy another one. In any event, I can always just turn up the music inside so I can hear it outside. I'm on a lot that's about two acres, and the closest neighbor is never there anyway, so it's hard for me to bother anybody.
 
I've got some Yamaha outdoor speakers mounted by the pool. The neighbors are very close here in suburban Florida but the noise of the a-c units helps keep the neighbors from really hearing the music.
 
I tried playing a pair of Klipsch Heresy speakers outside. IMO that's the only place they sounded any good. Indoors I couldn't stand them.

Next closest thing I have a pair of A7-ish speakers in my big garage. If I roll up all three doors and place a lawn chair about 30' in front of the garage they sound pretty good !

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to give an example of how far it can be annoying to others....
In this image, my house has the purple icon marker on it.
The house in question is just to the left of the vertical center "line", at the bottom of the image. Actually, now that I study the image, the "vertical center line" would run right thru his house. That distance is at least 1/4 mile away.
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Check the legend on your map. That distance is max maybe 500', not 1/4 mile.
 
It was a guesstimate. The legend doesn't show the slope. That open space is 1.5acre width if you measure square to our property line; and it is diagonally situated away from us. It then run uphill a distance, which is not so apparent in the image, as it was taken from straight above. (That probably doesn't add much length.) Then his offset is substantially away from his property edge due to the hill.
[shrugs]
 
Coytee said:
Then you have a ROOM problem.

Fix your room and they will improve.
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Not necessarily. A while back I had what I consider to be the worst sounding speakers that I ever dragged home; a pair of Peavey SP3's. They could not be made to sound listenable in any room I played them in and they were nothing short of downright awful. But I brought them outside, stood back 50' and they honestly weren't too bad at all. Same thing happened with a pair of Sansui kabuki speakers I had back in the day. Inside they were terrible as should be expected but outside where you could get away from them they really weren't that bad. I never played my Heresys outside back when I had them but I'm thinking the same thing would apply to them. I wasn't exactly thrilled with their performance in any of the rooms I played them in either.
 
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