AG Pool Audio System.

[drumr]

Sailork,
I played in a rush/journey tribute band a few years ago and we were running 4 EV's 15's and horns with a Peavey 1.2 K amp, pushing 1000 watts a side in a 20x30 practice room...I always wore earplugs...it was loud, I play drum workshop (dw) drums with the power tom configuration which are very loud unmiked and we had them suckers miked up...I'm surprised I'm not completely deaf!!

The link you have on your post beats all I ever seen!!! I could probably put swimming pool in my whole front yard for the price of that system!!!

[sailork]

drumr - Was the band called "Rushed Journey?" Or "Don't stop beleiving in Tom Sawyer?"

Whatever it was I'm sure it would have sounded great on a pair of 9.5 meter long horns.

[drumr]

Sailork...
LOL!!! Those are great names!! I wished we would've thought of that when the band was together. We had a terrible time coming up with a name. We were actually called "Freewill", but I love "Rushed Journey" that fit us perfectly!!!

[CarlD]

Do you all remember a series of E/V speakers called VOTs for Voice Of The Theater? I never heard anything like them for years and years.

[gonefishin]

Do you all remember a series of E/V speakers called VOTs for Voice Of The Theater? I never heard anything like them for years and years.

The VOT's (yes, Voice of Theater) were the Altec speaker systems. Nice drivers

EV had the Patrician and such.

[drumr]

My current bass player has a pair of the Voices of Theater speakers. I think the drivers are all bad but those cabinets are HUGE. I have never heard them before, but they look like they would sound nice.

There used to be a musician saying...If it ain't heavy...Don't buy it!!!

[CarlD]

Boy, I'm getting old--of course VOTs are Altec Lansing.

I was working as a stagehand at the NY Shakespeare In the Park after I left Singer back in '74 and they were using specially built VOTs there--WOW! They could fill that outdoor theater like a live performance! I think that was the summer Sam Watterston did a pretty bad Hamlet. And somebody accidently set the cuff of my jeans on fire with an acetylene torch--luckily the theater is built right on the edge of Lake Belvedere, so boot and all went with my foot into the lake. Amazingly, I wasn't burned, despite the flames licking my knee.

The things you never forget...

[jabbajean]

We just got a water proof, wireless speaker from Brookstone. You plug the transmitter into your stereo and carry the speaker where ever you want it to go. You can also hook your ipod up to the speaker..I LOVE it and I don't worry about splashing or get stuck in the rain.
Jay

[CarlD]

We just got a water proof, wireless speaker from Brookstone. You plug the transmitter into your stereo and carry the speaker where ever you want it to go. You can also hook your ipod up to the speaker..I LOVE it and I don't worry about splashing or get stuck in the rain.
Jay

Now if you can get to be solar powered (or at least recharging when it's off) you won't need to change batteries all the time.

But we have backing up to us, and a few houses up, in one of the "elephants around the watering hole" McMansions, a hip-hop record producer. He seems to think when he's at his pool the whole neighborhood needs to "share" in his crummy taste in music.

So I have 200w/ch on tap if necessary to drown him out, and you can't do that with wireless.

[sailork]

Good lord this thread is amusing. I was just sitting out by my pool with the Old Man and he was blustering on about "Altec Lansing Voice of the Theatre" speakers. I figured he was mistaken about the sound quality since I've never heard them. We'd just gotten back from working on the boat. It couldn't have been much more apropos.

Carl, you won't need that 200 watts to drown out the Hip Hopster when we dig your new in ground 9.5 meter poolside horns. I'd suggest 6 of the biggest EV drivers you can afford. Drive it with a "Zen" Class A amplifier.

Boats, Hi Fi, Swimming Pools.... Is the next thread Bikes? Cars? Sun Ra?

Maybe we'll descend into a rapturous geekdom of computer controlled bleach infusers... Anybody got a PDP-12 that times his pump? Maybe an old Origin that calculates the rate that his bleach burns off based on diurnal time, a thermometer and a sun brightness sensor?

Of course, maybe I just need to get out more.