I like the yamaha pa speakers better than what i own now, I have a pair of qsc k12.2's and it works great for my garage band in my morton building, and doubles as fronts on a 5.1 speakers on a 200 inch screen. Would check out JBL control x if you want waterproof surround speakers that are not exacly hifi but pretty good for what you want to do .I have 2 sets of them on our deck and with a sub it doesnt sound too bad, so far they have made it thru this winter in illinois ok, and it was negative 20 a few weeks ago here.