Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Outdoor Speakers - Ian

A pair of these is always playing outside one of our local Mexican food restaurants. My precocious car hiding tot exclaimed, "Daddy...those rocks are singing!!".

Those Rockustics were used outside a home in Vegas that is featured in a magazine I have. Everything else that guy had was top notch and/or very expensive. I would guess that they're pretty good.

My brother-in-law (soon to be ex-BIL) bought some metal, boxed, outdoor speakers about 5 years ago that have since rusted up and quit working. I'm wondering how anyone could design a decent speaker that would REALLY hold up outdoors 24/7, 365 days a year.

I have heard rock speakers before at a local flooring warehouse. They might have not been the ones your talking about but i think theres only one. And they sounded pretty horrible and they are pretty ugly too.

Probably the Chinese ones they have at costco. They sound just like cheap 2-way car stereo speakers - in plastic rocks.

I've heard them. They sound like plastic crapola speakers. And they didn't really look like rocks.

Judging by their 4 ohm impedance, then probably are car speakers incased in plastic fake-rock(tm).

Ooh, this is my favorite quote from the site:

"Rockustics utilized professionally manufactured crossovers for exceptional performance."

Wow, professional manufacturing. As opposed to the monkey-designed-and-built crossovers MOST speaker designers use.

I picked up some JBL N26AW at Best Buy when they were on clearance. $99 for the pair down from $249. They actually sound pretty good! I'm running them off my old HK AVR20II that also powers the sound in my MAME cabinet.

If you can find these speakers for under $150 I'd say they're good for outdoors at a good price.

Frank

That's pretty ingenious. Not only do you have music on the patio that way, but by the pool, the garage, the front yard. Whereever you take the minisystem. All without wiring!

Roughly what did the transmitter cost you?

Here's the URL to the site I bought the transmitter from: http://www.hobbytron.net/product534.html
It cost me $170, but it was worth it. There are less expensive ones available, but this one has a range of 300 ft (without obsructions), so with the transmitter centrally located, I should have whole-house coverage even when I move into a larger house.