Outdoor speakers

[wjwren]

Any recommendations?
Have some Bose ones one the decking and really pleased with them but bit pricey to use again . Building a Pergola at the bottom of the garden so looking for something around £200 ish.

These any good?

https://uk.jbl.com/loudspeakers/CONTROL+X.html?dwv...

[wjwren]

https://www.superfi.co.uk/p-3754-acoustic-energy-e...

[ladderino]

The Control X are good - a friend of mine has them.

I'd also recommend the Monitor Audio CL50 at the same price point because I love MA stuff.

These threads may help -
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=14...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=15...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=16...

[VEX]

Monitor Audio Climate Range

Sonnance Marriners

Both ones we use for installs and start around your budget.

[wjwren]

As these will be a 2nd set of speakers can i install a volume control on them via the speaker cable? The amp has 2 sets of speaker terminals(yamaha rn602) so the Bose 251 are on one and these will be on the second.

[VEX]

Yes you should be fine, ideally you should try to match the impedance so as to not damage the amplifier.

[matjk]

I don’t think it’s that simple to add a volume control (could be wrong) The amplifier will be driving at what ever the amp volume control is set to, a variable resistor will get hot and or mess up the impedance matching , something like this appears to be designed to do the job http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...

[megaphone]

As above, you need to use a volume control that is designed to maintain the 8 ohm load, what you need is an L-Pad Attenuator. You'll need a twin/dual if you want to control a stereo pair.

Make sure you get one that is rated to take the wattage you'll put into it, they get hot if you over-drive them.