Annoying the neighbours?

Use any old two core cable you like and junction boxes.  Unless you are looking for a very special 'sound stage' on your patio they will be good.  I would be more concerned about mechanical robustness of the cable than anything else

Does anyone have any experience of outdoor speaker 

Yes two of our ****er neighbours have them.
Any specific questions?
Wtf is wrong with headphones?

Outdoor-rated mains cable?

Wtf is wrong with headphones

Shit at parties!

Mmm indeed but surely on those occasions he can just open the door....

Wtf is wrong with headphones?

Hmmm. I have some speakers outside. Nice to sit out there with a beer and the bbq with a bit of back ground music.

Im sure it is. For you.

For your neighbours,NSM.

Speaker cable is generally pretty waterproof on account of the rubber casing, so use whatever speaker cable you want.

Junction boxes, and indeed the speakers themselves are what you should focus on. Posh speakers generally dont take kindly to being rained on and frozen in winter etc. Especialy if they are active speakers.

I would say that if you have neighbours then don't. Anyone who imposes their choice of music on others is (IMO) selfish and anti social.

It could broadcast radio when washing your Cortina on a Sunday morning. Nice.

What about a Sonos roam? Not sure if it's baseball bat proof if my neighbour got one though.

I believe you need a punk rock electric guitar and live in the suburbs to annoy your neighbours 🤔

Aaargh. Our neighbours have an outdoor speaker, I reckon at least the house either side of them and the same backing on to them, so 6 houses get to hear it. Apparently they like dance music and I have the joy of listening to it hour after our whenever they are outside (which is every nice day). Oh how I love sitting in the peace of my garden after a long day's work listening to da boom da da boom.

Yeah we have neighbors with them - please don't be that person.

I don't have any neighbours.
The volume is low enough that you can talk over it. (Not putting some massive amp and PA size speakers out there!)

I believe you need a punk rock electric guitar and live in the suburbs to annoy your neighbours 🤔

Perhaps this should be moved to the members fourum?

Yeah we have neighbors with them – please don’t be that person.

This +1

Mmm indeed but surely on those occasions he can just open the door

I do agree with this. Or just use a Bluetooth speaker for parties and the like.

Holy christ you're a miserable bunch. God forbid you sit with a bit of Bob playing on a sunny day. I live at the head of an (open) quadrangle and really couldn't give less of a toss if someone was enjoying their garden as long as it isn't excessively loud.

I'd suggest going for a bike ride if you want peace and solitude but, you know, crazy talk...

What about after the bike ride...

Jambox do large shoe box sized Bluetooth speakers if you want want some volume and range outdoors

Two core mains cable 0.75mm with a round profile would be ok just be careful that pvc mains flex isnt the greatest with low temperatures and may crack.

I would go for something like this

https://www.canford.co.uk/Products/33-220_FLEXIBLE-MAINS-2-core-0.75-sq.mm-Black-PVC

Placing it in conduit would also help

How often do you have parties?

Surely either carting a stereo outside or getting a chunky bluetooth speaker would be the best solution for the odd shindig?

Holy christ you’re a miserable bunch. God forbid you sit with a bit of Bob playing on a sunny day. I live at the head of an (open) quadrangle and really couldn’t give less of a toss if someone was enjoying their garden as long as it isn’t excessively loud.

Spoken like someone that obviously has, so far, been fortunate to have pretty quiet, considerate neighbours.

How often do you have parties?

Summer vacation has started, i'm planning to spend a large chunk of my waking hours over the next 5 weeks in the garden.

Then most of the autumn, and i've already spent a good chunk of the spring out there...

I have a little Bose bluetooth speaker for around the house and outdoors. Very good sound but I don't have it loud outside. I wouldn't want my neighbours playing loud music so I don't either.

There's a lot of assumptions being made here. For all we know the OP's nearest neighbour could live half a mile away.

Also, there's a world of difference between a bit of background music occasionally whilst sitting in the sun for an hour on a Saturday afternoon, and blasting out crap techno at 3am every night.

My wife and I like sitting in the back garden with a glass of wine, enjoying the very infrequent evenings when it's nice enough to do so in central Scotland. My neighbour, 3 doors round the corner, likes to sit out his back garden blasting dance 'music' at full volume. I've spoken to him about it, but he's an ignorant, selfish idiot. He's in his 30's with a young kid, but he's constantly behaving like an immature 14yr old. Other neighbours have called the police down on him, but he still doesn't seem to understand how selfish it is to blast out his music at top volume into the wee small hours of a Sunday night. Don't get me started about the dog he leaves out in the back garden, all night in the winter, barking and whining it's poor wee heart out....

I sometimes bring a wee portable radio into the garden, but I play it at a volume where it can't be heard more than 3-4 metres away. Anything more than that, unless you've invited / forewarned your neighbours, is being a bit of a tit in my opinion.

We've worked hard over the past 25yrs to make our back garden a really nice place to sit out, but our enjoyment of it is seriously limited because of our neighbour with his outdoor speakers blasting out pinkie and perky dance crap.

Two soundcore Motion Booms do a great job. We don't have them loud enough to annoy the neighbours to one side - other side, no neighbours !

Also, there’s a world of difference between a bit of background music occasionally whilst sitting in the sun for an hour on a Saturday afternoon, and blasting out crap techno at 3am every night.

Also, there’s a world of difference between a bit of background music occasionally whilst sitting in the sun for an hour on a Saturday afternoon, and blasting out crap techno at 3am every night.

True, but 'a bit of background music' hardly needs outdoor speakers.
But hey ho, each to their own.

How often do you have parties?

Summer vacation has started, i’m planning to spend a large chunk of my waking hours over the next 5 weeks in the garden.

Then most of the autumn, and i’ve already spent a good chunk of the spring out there…

That's a lot of partying. You should have a rest mate.

True, but ‘a bit of background music’ hardly needs outdoor speakers.

Do you have your own personal band/string quartet? out there?

That’s a lot of partying. You should have a rest mate.

Do that during the winter, when it's 10 below zero and dark.

Spoken like someone that obviously has, so far, been fortunate to have pretty quiet, considerate neighbours.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I wish. My neighbour is a world class ****wit and have been very much subjected to

blasting out crap techno at 3am every night.

But as said that's a world apart from music at a reasonable volume.

I don't have neighbours but I do have canoeists parking outside the house and occasionally they selfishly blast their car stereos while loading kayaks etc.

Thanks to the OP for giving me the idea of getting outdoor speakers so I can blast them back with Hair Pie Bake 2 (which I like but is intolerable to many).

Just shows, you CAN have your kayak and drop a beat to it.

I sometimes bring a wee portable radio into the garden, but I play it at a volume where it can’t be heard more than 3-4 metres away. Anything more than that, unless you’ve invited / forewarned your neighbours, is being a bit of a tit in my opinion.

This. Agree 100%.

good debate gang. on reflection i think the usage i'd have from outdoor speakers (and the costs and effort of getting them set up) probably outweighs the benefit of (for the most part) just having a nice low level sound playing.

We have one large do that the neighbours are invited too coming up and i wanted to make sure the sound was good for that but i'm going to hire a PA system for that for the days and otherwise i'll revert to a portable bluetooth speaker.

On the topic of how this would affect neighbours i'm on the end of a row of gardens with no gardens to the right and also a good chunk of my house juts out past where the speakers would have been hence being a small barrier to the neighbours.

Stand down all.

I've got a old Raspberry Pi, an Amp HAT and a pair of ex display speakers (think they cost me 50 quid. Maybe 70?)

That works well and the whole lot probably cost me less than £100.

We have two rock shaped speakers, mini amp from amazon & external Cat6 cable from work.

Sounds great in the garden. I took the dog for a walk when the wife had her mothers with kids round once, could hear the music streets away. Never crossed my mind how loud it must be. So we are the selfish neighbours.

I took the dog for a walk when the wife had her mothers with kids round once, could hear the music streets away. Never crossed my mind how loud it must be. So we are the selfish neighbours.

Stop trolling.

😀

Just shows, you CAN have your kayak and drop a beat to it.

^^^ this deserved more recognition.

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yeah regardless of volume, I'd say *nice* outdoor speakers are a waste. I like my hifi, and used to wheel out a set of wharfedale speakers outside when I wanted some music there. After a while I decided I wanted something permanent and bought some cheapish (<£100 a pair) speakers - probably 1/3 the cost of the wharfedales. There was no significant difference in quality, due to wind/awkward reflections/general other noise (at the volumes in question) that were affecting the listening.