speakers around the pool
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Ron Natalie
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New pool - want to put out speakers
Comments (6)Speakers outside good, amplifier outside bad.... Amp has to be out of the elements, either under cover or inside. I run an Apple Mac Mini computer through a Denon A/V receiver, which is connected to speakers throughout our home as well as outside in the pool area. I can play my entire iTunes library or access my Sirius Internet Radio off the Mac Mini. All the speakers have their own volume controls located throughout the house and outside at the bar, cabana and hot tub. We power 5 pairs of speakers around the pool. 2 rock speakers, 2 inground, 2 "PipeAudio" speakers in the cabana, and 2 Bose 301's at the bar and 2 marine waterproof speakers located in the planter pedestals that surround the raised pool spa. I can control the Mac Mini from another laptop that sits in the cabana and is connected to my wireless computer network. I use logmein.com to do that. It's just like gotomypc.com, except it's free. This allows us to choose channels on the Sirius Internet Radio, and control what plays out of iTunes, never leaving the cabana. W Sounds complicated, but it's really not. I did all the hookups myself. Here's some photos....See MoreSpeaker in pool?
Comments (0)A speaker in the pool sounds really neat. So when I am underwater I can listen to music. Does anyone out there actually have this? Is it really that neat? Or not worth the extra expense?...See MoreDesigning around speakers
Comments (3)There is no designing around speakers! Specially when they have to be pulled out into the room several feet for “proper” sound. DH keeps upgrading speakers and I always tell him to stick to black, which will match most audio equipment and TVs. Luckily we have a guest house and DH set up his music room there, so I don’t have to decorate around 500 pounds speakers in the main living areas!...See MoreNeeds suggestions for a blue tooth speaker(s)
Comments (32)The sound quality of a particular source is not something that's subjective in any way. There's nothing about a digital copy of a recording that compromises the sound source. In fact, it's the opposite, a high percentage of today's recorded music is done (at the studio level) ultimately in digital form. Though it may pass through analog equipment, thought to give warmth to the sound, along the way. The problem is with CDs and other formats. A CD has a limited amount of memory space. When the CD standard was set back at the dawn of time, it was decided to fix the bit and sampling rates at a point that would allow about 70 minutes of content. To get there requires "mastering" and down-sampling of that leaves more than half of the sound content behind. The bit rate standard is about 1400 bits per second, that's what's needed to fit within the capacity of the memory to reach 70 minutes. MP3s and MP4s (the Apple equivalent) take that already compromised sample and reduce it further with compression and further down-sampling - the top MP3 or equiv rate is about 320bps. Streaming music is usually at 128bps or less. Less than 25% of the original source content, if made from a CD, which itself is already a compromised source. . Analog sources have more capacity and so more of the master is present in a vinyl record. There a comparison with digital photography. A commercial photographer, or indeed even a photographer hired to take pictures at a wedding or other social function, will use one of several RAW formats for images. A typical image might be 50 million bits - 50 Mbs for each picture, or larger. For a family event, some of the RAWs I got approached 100Mb. Someone standing next to the photographer taking the same scene with a point and shoot camera or smartphone is going to have a file of 5-10Mbs, max. How could that be? Because the common jpg or gif formats sample, compress and downsize the image to produce a smaller file. Does it matter? Sure. You can produce large images/large print sizes with a RAW file. Any image from a RAW within a relevant range will be quite clear and sharp. With a jpg or gif, as images get much above a compact size, the image will become blurry because of the missing "data" from the image....See MoreRon Natalie
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