Good Stereo Speakers for outside use during BBQs, evening pot luck dinners etc


I want to purchase (preferably used) a pair of good speakers to place in our back yard for get togethers with friends. I would like speakers that resolve well with clean highs and decent bass but nothing on the level of very high end. I will probably be running around 40 ft of speaker wire from a Pass X250.8

I'm just looking to have quality music in the back yard to enjoy with food, drink and non-audiophile friends. Easy set up and take down is desired as I really don't want to schlep my Vandersteen's in and out of the house every time I want music outside. Any suggestions for speakers and wire would be appreciated.

Bruce

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Showing 1 response by cbrents73

Paradigm has great Outdoor Speakers and are on sale through August 31st 2020.

https://www.paradigm.com/en/outdoor-speakers/stylus-270

https://www.paradigm.com/en/outdoor-speakers/stylus-370

https://www.paradigm.com/en/outdoor-speakers/stylus-470

The Stylus are conventional, mountable outdoor speakers (in black or white) that are similar in shape and size to what you are presently looking at with Episode, but we also have Rocks, and Landscape style speakers that can cover any type of outdoor environment to suit your needs and/or lifestyle.

A lot depends on whether you want your speakers to be portable or more permanent and how you like to entertain, how big the area of space is - many considerations...

Typically for Outdoor Listening, think of the area like how you’d light it up at night. You can slap a big flood light on the back of the house and light up everything, just like you could with a big pair of horns, or it can be much more subdued with landscape speakers that are placed every 6-10ft sprinkled around the area where you entertain which allows for not having to turn up the music for everyone to enjoy and not disturbing the neighbors.

Good quality sound and placement will play a particular role in how your yard affects others. Running 70volt mono vs 8ohm stereo would be determined by how big an area of space is you’d like to cover.

But, maybe you want it portable...

Look at Soundcast:
https://www.gosoundcast.com/

or the SONOS Move:
https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/move.html?gclsrc=aw.ds&&utm_campaign=GGL_US_EN_SONOS_B_MOVE_EXACT_360i&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_content=GGL_US_EN_SONOS_B_MOVE_EXACT_360i&utm_term=sonos%20move&gclid=Cj0KCQjwupD4BRD4ARIsABJMmZ9x8OML5Vv1p9kfDfNQlgtONS6HmTi8vO7nLZHAUF8FKOButCACxnsaAte2EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Thanks,
Chris