Shop Speakers

[Gangly]

After buying a TV for the shop, I've noticed that the sound quality is horrid. It's a relatively small steel building at 25x30, with no insulation, and the TV doesn't have enough oomph or clarity to hear things clearly enough to enjoy it when on standing any distance away from it. I have a large speaker setup in one corner of the shop, but it is bluetooth and dedicated to music and phones and I would like to have a 4 corner setup specifically for the TV if possible.

I am wondering, what is everybody doing for 4-corner setups in their shop?

 

[Steve W.]

My TV is on the wall over the main bench.
The speakers are 6 1/2" coaxials in bookshelf-size boxes on either side of the TV.
There is a small 2.1 amplifier on the shelf below the TV.*
Three of the four corners in the shop do not have speakers.
The fourth corner has the 10" powered subwoofer.

Overall, the shop is only 24x30, minus a bit for the bathroom and the stairway UP.
That leaves about 24x24, so my simple setup works just fine.

*The amplifier has two wired inputs and a BlueTooth input, allowing connection to my phone for music.

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[M.Brane]

Having stuff packed along the walls is an advantage when it comes to acoustics. If you have lots of bare walls some treatment may be needed.

I have a pair of '90s Sanyo 12" 3-ways I found on the side of the road powered by a cheap Amazon class D amp, and it sounds surprisingly good. There's not many flat surfaces though.

 

[jbailey927]

I have a 40' x 40' shop with a traditional Denon Receiver setup with 4 Floor standing speakers in each corner. I have not hung the TV yet in these pictures, but this setup will get loud enough and is clear enough to listen to anything you want even 20' out on the Driveway.

Denon - AVR X4300H
Klipsch - RS3 II Floor Standing Speakers

 

[andyvh1959]

In my 24x28 shop I installed used wood case 1980s vintage speakers hung in each upper corner of the shop. I bought the speakers used on FBM. Each one is about 24" high. These are similar to my classic Advent speakers in the house with my early 80s component stereo system. I bought a used SonySurrond sound stereo with my cell phone plugged into the aux port so my phone is the Pandora receiver. Works great for the blues and classic 70s rock.

 

[Bert_]

The radio and speakers in my garage are stuff I found at a garage sale and at the curb

 

[e015475]

I bought one of the Chinese amps with the Texas Instruments TPA3255 chips in it for may garage workshop. I stream Spotify or Youtube to my garage. Takes a lot less space than an old reciever

I bought a cheap 10" powered subwoofer and mounted it up off the floor to reduce potential for putting my foot or something else through the speaker cone

Found some Sony SSC5 bookshelf speakers for $10 on FBMP and hung them in the middle of the garage at the end of the garage door tracks using some brackets I found on Amazon. They seem to sound best when they're toed-in to focus on my work station in front of the bench


Here's the Amazon brackets I used that lets me tilt/pan the speakers-

I'm on the fence about putting in a TV in the garage. I have a 65" TV in my garage up north, but I seldom watch it. It is on all the time when I am working there, but it is just a source of background noise, which is what I really like. I'm going to try just streaming YouTube audio from my iphone for a while and see if that isn't eneough

 

[dudley123]

Sonos amp for wireless playback into wired speakers... OR a couple Sonos Play 5's will be MORE than enough to really crank the tunes.

 

[DarryT]

I bought an 1990's 7 speaker Kenwood surround sound system for $20 at a garage sale.

 

[jshillin]

I have bookshelf speakers in the 4 corners of my garage powered by an old Yamaha receiver that I had when I was a teenager.

In my shed/wood shop, I have a small SMSL amplifier that feeds 2 in wall speakers that I installed.

Both setups work really well for what it is and I just have them connected to Echo Dot's for music.

 

[Jblount3]

My shop has a pioneer receiver and 5.1 surround in the entertainment space and has a 5000w pro audio pa networked in for music.

 

[driftpin]

My regret is not purchasing the Altec-Lansing Voice of the Theater speakers I saw in a thrift store. These are the speakers made for professional touring musicians & bands. The ones you see positioned in huge banks pointed towards the audience in pictures from about any rock show since the 1960's. This pair was upholstered in heavy-duty blue metalflake pleated vinyl. They had covers for traveling/shipping. Similar to these:

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[M.Brane]

My regret is not purchasing the Altec-Lansing Voice of the Theater speakers I saw in a thrift store. These are the speakers made for professional touring musicians & bands. The ones you see positioned in huge banks pointed towards the audience in pictures from about any rock show since the 1960's. This pair was upholstered in heavy-duty blue metalflake pleated vinyl. They had covers for traveling/shipping. Similar to these:

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Those were also the speakers placed behind the acoustically transparent movie screens in theaters back in the heyday hence the "Voice Of The Theater" moniker. Power them with an old tube power amp, and you're golden.

Too big for my little 20'x20' though.

 

[Zevo]

I have definitive technology aw650 speakers on my patio hooked up to a sonos amp. It would work really well in s shop