Outdoor Audio Installation in Cincinnati

Good outdoor audio in Cincinnati is a design problem before it is an equipment problem. A single pair of speakers on the back wall has to be loud at the far end of the pool, which means it is painfully loud on the patio and audible three houses down. The fix is more speakers at lower volume: satellite landscape speakers spread through the beds every 15 to 20 feet, an in-ground subwoofer for the low end, and the whole array aimed back toward the house so the sound stays in your yard. Sonance Landscape Series is our first choice for this; Klipsch outdoor speakers for patios and covered porches.

The gear has to survive here. Cincinnati gives us freeze-thaw cycles, humid Julys, and the occasional ice storm, so every speaker we install outside is weather-rated, the wire is direct-burial, and the amplification stays indoors in the rack. Done that way the system lasts a decade; done with indoor gear and a long extension cord it lasts a season.

Outdoor audio is also just another zone in the house. It shows up in Sonos or Control4 next to the kitchen, follows the same volume schedules, and joins the “Party” scene with the landscape lighting. Add a weatherproof TV under the porch roof and the patio becomes the best room in the house for a Bengals game — which is where most of these projects end up.