Landscape Speakers - Home Improvement Outdoors

How would you like to have you own intimate concert complete with a fine glass of wine and twinkling stars? Now you can move the concert outdoors with the audio technology available today with outdoor landscape speakers.

The introduction of the iPod has moved audio out of the home or car and made it personal. Audio and music is everywhere, why not enjoy your favorites out on your patio while entertaining. Just like Malibu landscape lighting adds to the landscape design by illuminating the yard with low voltage light fixtures, landscape speakers can enhance the landscape with sound.

Speaker like the James Landscape Speaker series deliver a consistent sound level by utilizing eight small satellite speakers and concealing a subwoofer in a planter or a faux rock. By positioning speakers strategically no one will know they are there until the sounds comes on. Outdoor and landscape speakers differ in the tolerances for handling extreme of weather conditions.

The Landscape Speaker

Combine sound quality and a creative inconspicuous appearance of speakers and you have a great combination of function and sound. Speakers, which made to look like rocks, add a natural looking beauty to a landscape design. Sealed with heavy-duty silicon these two-way speakers are weather and water resistant giving years of trouble free performance outdoors. Many of these landscape speakers carry a warranty of up to 10 years.

In the construction of these outdoor speakers hi-impact polyurethane resins are used to create a real looking slate/granite looking rock. However, other styles besides rocks are also available. I’ve seen frogs mounted with speakers and simple looking round disc. Omnispeaker is a popular model that blends in well with the garden and landscape. The omnispeaker is a good fit for backyards, around pools and ponds and following a walkway like in most theme parks.

Landcape Sound in the Garden

In the garden, by the pool, hiding by the deck or porch outdoor sound can look natural in a wide array of settings. Outdoor audio is not new idea of true surround sound has been applied at sports complexes and theme parks around the world. The design sets both a pleasing visual and acoustical setting to the landscape, courtyard and a variety of outdoor settings. Your choice of music may be an issue but audio helps create a smoothing, relaxing environment of a garden spa.

A note of caution on outdoor sound. Stay away from any speakers that offer only a one-year warranty. They may sound great initially but they usually don’t last long.