Garage Audio?

[purplezr2]

Curious what everyone is doing.

Anyone use a product likeThis(amazon link)


Thought on speaker wire, speaker, exterior speakers....

The walls are all open and virgin.

 

[Shiftless]

My walls are wide open too. I have no plans to drywall. Where I am, no need for garage insulation. House? of course!

I picked up a $35 vintage stereo receiver at a garage sale. 80 watts per channel is plenty. Wired up a 3 way speaker (Advent) near the ceiling in each of the 4 corners. These speakers come with nice mounting brackets. I listen to jazz on the radio.

 

[softailgarage]

I've used everything from a car stereo mounted in the workbench to an old stereo to a computer hooked to a lepai amp. That link had something I really like, never seen & will probably own soon....https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E477IC8/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Falcon67]

1982 Realistic tuner, wires and cast off + junk sale Radio Shack speakers. Has a TV input for sound from the 42" LCD in the shop and AUX has a adapter cable for a headphone jack output from a phone. FM antenna is some 300 ohm wire stapled to the wall. Works well enough.

 

[PhysicsDude]

I bought some cheapo Pyle outdoor rated speakers and cheapo Pyle receiver, and they work great! I've also used an old "boombox" system. If you can find them on Craiglist its cheap and easy.

There's 2 methods I usually use to listen to music, either bluetooth through the phone (generic bluetooth receiver is $20), or I recently installed an Amazon Alexa. I really like Alexa, the voice commands are VERY handy when you're working on something or have dirty hands.

 

[dfiler2]

I've never seen anything like what was in your link. I also would be interested to here from anyone who has installed one. This unit was on the same page and has a 60 watt amplifier built in.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N9EYUO9/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[matt_i]

I'm about at the same point.

My plan was a shelf with my old stereo system and then hanging bookshelf-ish speakers up high. Hardwire thru the ceiling/walls. I had not considered any exterior speakers. I looked briefly at the round speakers that would flush mount with the ceiling but seems to formal for the shop And maybe not enough capacity if I want to rock the haus from time to time.

Primarily I like the radio but I only get 1 local station, hoping to get an amplified antenna or follow some youtubers and build some rabbit ear contraption in the attic to assist.

I had apple itunes for awhile until my ipod flaked and my old PC died of windows hary-cary and I haven't been able to salvage the itunes off the hard drive to another PC. I sort of got turned off from that and I don't have a big collection of captured music other than the old school CDs.

 

[hobie1dog]

There have been several large threads in the past on here but I can never find anything with the search function. Lots of pictures in the big thread.

 

[exranger06]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=536
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=286548
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=356084

 

[flyng_fool]

I wouldn't worry about going too crazy. Garage acoustics are generally really bad. Even an expensive high end system can't fix awful acoustics.

 

[ticklechicken]

I went through the same decision a few weeks ago. I realized that my 5.1 soundbar in my family room does a great job as a stereo when I just want music. I bought the 2.1 version for my garage, but I found it on ebay for $130 shipped. It's small and sounds great. Easy install too. The sub and soundbar aren't wired together, so they can go in separate locations.

 

[ducksface]

A desktop computer and a Logitech(or thereabouts) 5.1 system.
Does you tube videos and movies as well as(almost never have music in my garage. The sounds of an escapee nut, finally loose from its cell mate/bolt that has been doing Awful things to it for months or years or decades, hitting the floor and making a run for a low cabinet, is my choice of sound) music from 100,000 stations and a cd player.

 

[Eslader]

I just use a cheap Amazon Basics bluetooth speaker. I have a shelf on my pegboard that holds it, and my phone fits next to it if it needs to be charged. I flip on the speaker and the phone automatically starts playing music through the speaker. Decent sound quality - plenty good and loud enough for my garage.

 

[oryhara]

Shelf system from goodwill($20) and an amazon echo dot($40 on sale at ). I like to be able to play pause select music without touching iphone or whatever with greasy fingers. She does other things too but i mostly play music with voice control.


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[ptgarcia]

I have an 15 yr old setup (Onkyo receiver with Boston Acoustic speakers) that I use. I usually play music through Pandora on my phone with a simple headphone patch cable. Speakers are small shelf speakers and I have a center channel and small sub, also.

 

[thenorm]

mine is an old boom box style stereo from the 90's (black plastic)
I mounted it upside down to the exposed trusses. i can just reach the volume. It's plugged into a switched outlet, so it comes on when the lights do.

 

[justsam]

Shelf system from goodwill($20) and an amazon echo dot($40 on sale at ). I like to be able to play pause select music without touching iphone or whatever with greasy fingers. She does other things too but i mostly play music with voice control.


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I'm with you and a huge fan of hands free operation via Alexa. I have a Pandora account linked and it is all controlled via Alexa. As you stated it also of course is all the things Alexa can do so it is also my clock, weather forcast, timer, metric conversions etc. As you have done, any cheap analog input amp will do the trick with speakers of your choice, or if you are really not picky, the built in speaker of the DOT. Even SONOS is teaming with Amazon to voice control their audio system, (in BETA now).

Clearly you can use it with other SMART switches such as WEMO or Leviton WiFi, to control other things in garage. No other controller required.

 

[oryhara]

Yea when i accidentally made a shelf a foot too long(60" is not 6 feet, DOH!), it blocked the light switch in my garage, so for $10 I put a sonoff relay in the wall and now alexa can turn on the lights in my garage if something on the shelf is in the way of my hitting the switch. The switch still works.