Recommendations on Outdoor speakers

[Bob Quintal]

looking to hear what people recommend as a background music+
occasional paging/sr speaker box for use on a terrace outside.
Good fidelity and low cost primary concerns. 70V transformers not
needed.

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Bob Quintal

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[Scott Dorsey]

Bob Quintal > wrote:
>looking to hear what people recommend as a background music+
>occasional paging/sr speaker box for use on a terrace outside.
>Good fidelity and low cost primary concerns. 70V transformers not
>needed.

How important IS good fidelity to you? Most people say they want good
sound quality for background music, but they usually don't.

If you really do want good sound quality, look at the Tannoy i5 AW,
which is the outdoor version of their 5" ICT installed-sound speaker.
It sounds decent, and it's not all THAT expensive. It will last a
good long while outside.

If you want cheap, Parts Express sells some little 2-way boxes under the
Dayton Audio name, for under $100 each if you buy five at a time. They
have that "cheap dome tweeter spittiness" that drives me up the wall,
but they are reasonably solid.

In a background music application, you are often going to be sucking
out a lot of the lower midrange with radical EQ, so that the music doesn't
interfere with conversation so much. The problem is that this tends to
accentuate the top end spittiness to my ears.

Avoid the Bose and MTX stuff like the plague.
--scott

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