I probably have 300' of walkways to cover with low level discreet but nice sound. Rocks are probably not going to work. I don't like those green mushroom like things that half sink into the ground at theme parks nor box speakers on metal posts. Any other decent ideas?

I'm after:

1. Ideas for the speakers themselves

2. Assuming 70 volt but enlighten me if otherwise

3. What would be typical spacing for these?

Thanks.

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Tom, you say that rocks probably won't work, can you give us a reason why? Unless the walkways are covered and you can use outdoor speakers, there aren't too many other options, other than mr2channel's as long as it fits in with your/ the customers ideas.
Iain

How about Sonance pedestals or flower pots?

Disney mounts their speakers to light poles. Not really a stealth install though

Rockustics not only makes the boulder speakers that they are known for, but also the "omni" products like the com360.

They are available in 70V or 8 ohm (although they are actually closer to 4 ohm) so you can use them with 70V systems or with a Niles SMS-10 or Sonance AF-8 or AF-12 and a big amp fed by your multi-zone system.

The Rockustics com360s are used in Six Flags Theme Parks, Tavern on the Green in Central Park NYC, White House Rose Garden, Sea World, Hershey Park, etc.

You may have guessed...
I really, really like this company and their products.
Sonance, 'Craft, and others are now making boulders, but I still use the originals.

Rockcoustics also makes some planters that have an 8" speaker in the middle. You have to look closely to see that it's not just a rectangular terra cotta planter.

The sound is excellent, too

Does anyone make speakers that look like pink flamingos, above ground pools or rusty lawn furniture?

Nope. Aperantly just rocks and frogs! :)

You could put some serious subs in the 'above ground pool' setup!

Hmmm;

Now you've got me thinking again! :-)

Tom,
Give these a look.
[Link: pyleaudio.com]
[Link: owi-inc.com]
Jeff

How about attaching a voice coil to a trampoline?

That would be one BIG woofer!

It might be tough to get the qts right.

Would it be an 'infinte' baffle?? :-)

Damn, I wish I had thought of that one...
Jeff

It won't have a good deep low end without a port.

Not necessarily. A port is only one way to deal with bass out of a speaker. A port adds to the woofer resonance a second resonance, some bit of frequency away, to widen the bump in the bass and thus the overall low frequency response. A non-ported speaker can also have a good deep end.

A trampoline will have pretty good bass if you can just get it to move all as one plane. One way to do that would be to take a few hundred pounds of Elmer's glue, or the like, nicely spread around the surface of the trampoline.

Why? doesn't anyone make a Kevlar reinforced pulp cone trampoline??

Also, it will be hard getting a good airtight seal around all of those springs... You could mount it on the rim of the previously mentioned above ground pool and make an acoustic suspension design.

As an "audiophile" outdoor mega speaker, what about making a planar out of an in-ground pool with a tensioned cover??
We could drain the pool and install rows of magnets just under the surface of the cover and sew rows of coil wire into the cover.
We would need two neighbors with the same size pool for stereo...
Then we would need to set up a listening position on a crane.