"WirelessNut" wrote in message
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I just moved into an old house where we redid the kitchen and ran some
new wire for ceiling speakers in addition to our mains in the living
room. There was also some existing 14/4 CL2 cable run to the detached
garage. No conduit, just run through the walls to a small hole in an
outside wall and strung with some phone wires into the garage.

It is about 50-60 feet from my amp. This cable was then split into two
pairs for cheesy speakers in the garage. We like to entertain inside
and out, and replaced the garage speakers with a pair of JBL N24AWII
Northridge Outdoor speakers. Now, obviously with the long run to the
garage, those speakers are getting very little power. To get decent
volume outside, the inside speakers are way too loud.

What is my easiest (cheapest?) solution to bring up the volume for the
outside speakers?

Do I need another amp out there? Will a separate volume control for
those speakers do the trick?

Somewhere in the back of my brain I know the answer to this. I'm just
too lazy to work it out on my own!

Thanks for your thoughts!

I would purchase a used stereo receiver with a tape recorder loop. It
should cost less than $50. Now I'd run the tape recorder output of your
main receiver to the tape input on the receiver outdoors. You now have 2
choices outdoors: Any signal normally supplied by the new receiver, or the
same signal being played indoors, and the volume can be set independently.

Norm Strong