Installing an outdoor sound system is one of the best upgrades you can make to your outdoor living spaces. Music is a fantastic complement to a host of outdoor activities like pool parties, game day watch parties, or casual dinner parties on the patio. And with agreeable summer weather arriving in the Pacific Palisades and Los Angeles area, there’s no better time than now to invest in outdoor audio. Here’s what you need to get started.

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Weatherproof Speakers

Speakers are the centerpiece of your outdoor audio system. Luckily for you, Sonance offers several outdoor collections to fit the performance and aesthetic you desire in your outdoor living spaces. The Landscape Series is Sonance’s pinnacle collection for landscape audio. Each set includes two high-performance satellite speakers, two in-ground subwoofers, and one hardscape subwoofer. The Landscape Series is endlessly scalable, with the option to add as many speakers and subwoofers as you need for even sound coverage throughout your space. Placed strategically around the perimeter of your property, the Landscape Series directs sound inward toward the listening areas, creating an enveloping soundscape over your backyard.

If aesthetics is a primary concern, consider Sonance rock speakers designed with a natural stone texture and colors that blend into garden beds and foliage. You can pair rock speakers with an optional subwoofer for even more impressive and powerful sound.

How about speakers for the patio, courtyard, or pergola? Sonance all-weather Mariner speakers are easily mounted on walls and under eaves and can be pivoted to direct sound to your desired listening area.

Another brand you can’t go wrong with is James Loudspeaker, a company that Sonance acquired in 2019. The All-Terrain (AT) landscape speakers are designed to perform at higher volumes while maintaining smooth frequency response, resulting in powerful sound that travels across your entire outdoor space. Paired with a direct burial subwoofer, the AT series provides a well-balanced audio soundscape in your backyard.

James Loudspeaker’s newest contribution to the market is the Outdoor Tower series. These freestanding speakers are meant to be seen and heard. Each model boasts proprietary drivers and a quad tweeter array to deliver widely dispersed, high-fidelity sound. If you’re looking for a ground-shaking, concert-level performance outdoors, these speakers are the ones for you. They can be installed with a hidden internal mount or external mount.

Power Source: Amplifier

The amplifier powers your speakers and connects music sources. Outdoor audio systems require a robust power source to generate sound that’s crisp, clear, and loud in open spaces with a lot of ambient noise.

Sonance has its own amplifiers that pair with outdoor speaker collections. The Landscape Series offers the most impressive and flexible system design options. It can be configured for 70V/100V or 8 Ohm designs. A 70V system drives a lot of power to multiple speakers, making it the ideal system for large-scale areas that need expansive sound coverage.

James Loudspeaker sells its own line of amplifiers, and also offers Crown Audio and Sonance amps to pair with speaker collections.

The amplifier is also where you’ll connect your music sources, like media streamers, CD players, and turntables (for vinyl records).

Help from the Haustech Team

Designing and installing a high-quality outdoor sound system is not for the faint of heart — we recommend hiring your friendly Haustech team for the job. We’ll work with you to design a system customized for your space and perform all the mounting, staking, and wiring required.

Ready to bring your outdoor spaces to life with music? Call us or fill out an online contact form to schedule a consultation with our experts. We look forward to working with you!

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As we enter the new year, home improvements are on the brain for many of us! Your home entertainment is a popular system to upgrade, and one of the best improvements you can make is new speakers for your audio video installation. High-performance speakers vastly improve your music, movie, TV, sports viewing, and gaming experiences at home.

When it comes to upgrading your home audio, we recommend the best: Sonance and James Loudspeaker. Keep reading to learn more about this powerhouse duo and how their speaker products will transform your Pacific Palisades or Los Angeles, CA, home.

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The Making of a Power Couple

In September 2019, Sonance announced plans to acquire James Loudspeaker by the end of the year. Sonance was founded in 1983 and has long been considered the benchmark brand for architectural audio. Sonance’s speakers are “designed to disappear” into the architecture of your home, media room, theater room, or backyard and patio.

James Loudspeaker is no slouch in the audio world either. The company is revered for its high-performance speakers in homes, outdoor settings, commercial venues, and marine applications. Speakers are custom-designed to minimize their visual presence in interior and exterior settings.

Together, a Sonance and James Loudspeaker partnership is poised to deliver the ultimate experience in entertainment, high-fidelity audio, and hidden sound design. In 2020, integrators and technology manufacturers alike waited with bated breath to see what the powerhouse duo would unveil at their first joint CEDIA Expo.

They didn’t disappoint. Keep reading to learn more about the new products we recommend to upgrade and elevate your audio video installation at home.

Sonance Invisible Series

The Invisible Series is Sonance’s hallmark line of architectural in-wall and in-ceiling speakers. They are — you guessed it — completely invisible after installation and finished over with the wall or ceiling material. Sonance’s disappearing speakers offer a tremendous flexibility for whole-home audio design because you can install as many as you need (wherever you need them) without cluttering up your home or disturbing the aesthetics.

Motion Flex is what sets the newly upgraded Invisible Series line apart in performance. Motion Flex uses innovative acoustic engineering technology explicitly designed to improve the performance of flat-paneled speakers. The Invisible Series includes a wave flex drive unit that delivers crisp highs and smooth midrange, along with an air flex woofer to deliver robust and powerful bass. An acoustically isolated baffle ensures ultra-low sound distortion, and Sonance’s proprietary constant directivity crossover (CDX) enables consistent sound coverage with nearly 180° of vertical and horizontal dispersion.

The Invisible Series delivers a rich, immersive sound experience for multiple applications: a TV sound upgrade, a distributed audio system, or a full, surround-sound setup in a home theater or media room.

James Loudspeaker

The latest and greatest from James Loudspeaker are the new AT Outdoor Towers, introduced at CEDIA 2020. These loudspeakers are meant to be seen and heard — they were designed to give concert-level performance outdoors. The Outdoor Towers deliver powerful, earth-shaking sound for multiple outdoor entertainment systems, including outdoor home theaters and outdoor music.

This speaker line is weatherproof and can be mounted on all types of terrain. Now is the time to start thinking about your outdoor entertainment setup! Let Haustech handle your installation now so that you’ll be ready to rock and roll (literally — these Outdoor Towers will rock and roll the ground beneath your feet) when California summer arrives.

At Haustech, we exclusively work with industry-leading brands to bring the highest quality and performance to your home technology systems. If you’re ready to discuss installing or revamping your audio video installations, call us or fill out a contact form to schedule a consultation.

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