Outdoor Music

[asudavew]

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I want any kind of music just to drown out the sound of the Mourning Doves -We are infested with them and they are driving me crazy! Here is a link to the noise and try and imagine hearing this non-stop, just about 24/7.

Mourning Dove


Les...

Come on Les!!!

A BB gun... a few shots!

Bon appetit

Get with it man!!!

[cvdukes]

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We tried the wireless speakers for a while. Our cable system has various music channels ...pick your genre and you never know what song may come up next... unlike something you've recorded on the IPod or CD. Problem was, the pool area is right at the furthest extent of the range so sound was subject to interference and the moon phase.
Compromise has been to obtain a device that allows recording straight from the digital music channels to CDs...and use a boom box with a few remote speakers....still don't know what you're going to hear until the disc plays for the first time. They tell me the sound quality is not as good, but what do I know...mostly deaf in the middle music ranges

[gjbingham]

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Frances, I'm with you. Silence is golden. Good music is meant to be enjoyed in an armchair. I love great music, but there's a lot of great sounds elsewhere as well. Outside time is for enjoying the world around me.

I can't even imagine an ipod stuck in my ear all the time, nor music blaring around the yard. Tunes are great for a party but I can live without the blaring endless noise of Celine wailing like a bitch in heat. My wife's daughter is stuck on Miley Sirus/Hannah Montana......OMG! Pull my hair out. The sounds of a nice babbling fountain or running stream are what I want to hear when I'm outside. Perhaps the sounds of trout slurping rising caddis flies off the surface of the water......mmmmmmm! That's heaven!

[rafv]

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We tried live music a few years ago when we had the house warming. 35 complaints to the police. We fed the police and gave them more than a few drinks. The shift change was at 10pm so we kept going untill the guys on the first shift could get out of uniform and get round here. W e had to stop the music at midnight but the party went on till daybreak. It helped that my wife was in the force at the time and all of her shift along with the Superintendant and his wife were there.

[Frances]

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Hehe, good story!

...actually I quite liked the sound of the mourning doves...

[jwnorris]

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I use a set of wireless speakers hooked up to an old stereo receiver that is in the garage. I can connect either an iPod or my Sirius radio.

One thing that I have found is that the 900MHz systems are not near as good as the 2.4GHz ones. Their range is much better and worth the extra money.

J W

[CajunKnight]

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Thats strange ... I did vote in the pole yesterday and saw the result... Today it was as if i never voted, so of course I voted again lol. Technology aint all it's cracked up to be sometimes lol.

[christo]

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I am putting an amp in my outdoor kitchen with a weatherproof jack for my ipod.

I use wireless speakers right now and they work just ok for me - too much popping some days.... so my vote counted as wireless

I found an amp intended to be for transmitting audio over home 60 hz wiring - and there is an easy hack to make it easy to plug your ipod in and bypass the 60 hz wiring thing. It's working great so far.

$15 Radio Shack Amp that kicks - the Accurian - AudioKarma.org Home Audio Stereo Discussion Forums

It should also work well to amp up Karoke nights at the Pizza oven!!!

[BaconGrease]

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I've got wired outdoor speakers under the deck (this picture is before the pool got put in)

I have the radio hooked up in the basement to a PC hosting all my music, interfacing through a regular old amp. I can access XM radio online or listen to internet radio from there as well.

(the dog actually had a squirrel cornered up above the speaker, she doesn't care much about the music)

[PizzaPolice]

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Bacon Grease:

"His Masters Voice" Nipper, the RCA dog.

[BaconGrease]

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Here is the terrified rodent!

and the aformentioned speaker

[nissanneill]

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Yeh, been putting a little thought to this very topic.
I'm not sure just how I am to arrange the 'mood music' or quiet background music (I hate loud music that is not to my liking and usually controlled by other people)in the new outdoor kitchen.
I have a good stereo system in the lounge room (around 10 metres away), that is rarely used as it is a rather formal room which is hard wired to the old patio (new outdoor kitchen area).
I will check out suitable speakers for mounting up under the house eaves and leave the music low. Rather than keep the old stereo background speakers (as I normally have trouble disposing of working things), I smashed them to prevent their re-use in the new area.
Decisions to be made further down the track.
I am running all of the electrical cable within the hollow steel trusses and purlins and need to include speaker wires if they are to be mounted on the roof.

Neill

[CajunKnight]

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if you do not plan on blasting the neighborhood telephone wire works great and comes with several color coded pairs depending on size wire you use.

[nissanneill]

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Hi Travis,
good to see you back up on deck. I hope that all goes well for you.
I'm feeling a little down at the moment as I have just returned from a mates 23 year old's funeral, dying from complications and a very aggressive form of leukemia.
I have two figure 8 wires running to the patio whick powered the older speakers.
The new ones once decided on type, size etc. will be located in the same spot and will do the job admirably.
I started a new post when you were off channel with the new patio commencement. See:

http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f35/...rway-4591.html

as I keep it up to date each week with any progress.

Neill

[staestc]

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I am a bit late to this thread and poll, and I have not even poured the slab for my outdoor kitchen, but I installed wired outdoor speakers on my back patio with a receiver/CD player just to have music while I was installing the fence around the pool

I intend to move the audio equipment under cover in the outdoor kitchen, which will be separated from the house/patio, so it will be the hub of outdoor audio. From there I will run speaker wired underground in conduit to a zone with the existing pair of speakers on the patio and to a zone for speakers around the pool (rocks?). Since my entire kitchen will be covered, mounting the speakers in there will be easy.

Still fleshing out ideas, driving stakes in the yard, and drawing pictures, but I intend to plan where everything will be, including speakers, walkways and flower beds prior to the start so that I can run electical, water, speaker, and sprinkler lines before any slabs or stone walks are in place (and while all the plumbing and electrical locations that were put in for the pool are still fresh in my mind!).

Travis n'Texas