Adding speakers to your back yard is a lot different than adding speakers indoors because you don’t have the walls to reflect the sound around you. This means that you need to be more careful with how you configure your outdoor sound system. When you are picking out new outdoor speakers there are a few more qualities that you need to look at then when choosing indoor speaker. One of the major factors is weather proof vs. weather resistant. Weather proof speakers can be placed almost anywhere and don’t need any protective covering while speakers that are weather resistant need to be placed under an awning or the eaves of your house.

A further thing that you need to take into consideration is that it is hard for outdoor speakers to maintain good bass so when looking at possible choices you need to make sure that the speakers you choose have plenty of low end power and can get down to at least 60Hz or lower. You can also add an outdoor subwoofer to your system to make sure that you get a good full range of sound.

When placing your outdoor speakers you need to spread them out and for the best results try placing them around 8-10ft apart and around 12ft from your main listening area. It is also a good idea to put them beside walls or in corners because having walls around it will make them seem much louder especially in the lower frequencies. If you have a larger area that you want to cover then it is a lot more effective you add more speakers then just pump up the volume because pumping up the volume can make the areas near the speakers uncomfortably loud. For example if you wanted to cover your patio and your pool it would be best to place speakers in the 4 corners of the whole area rather than just blaring the speakers on the patio so you can hear them by pool. Another way to make your speakers seem louder without cranking it up to 11 is by raising the height of your speakers; a height of 6-10ft is optimal for your listening pleasure.