growroom speakers

[GanjaPharma]

hey everyone!

i need your recommendation on some good growroom speakers.

been pulling some long shifts in my current 10kw jungle. big trees, cages, no room to move....and i keep getting my goddamn headphones snagged on every plant i crawl under/past/through/around. so i am thinking, i need some nice, loud speakers that will cut through an ac unit a bunch of fans and a few hundred square feet of ganja foliage.

any recommendations? my brother thinks i should get an opera singer to live in there, cuz they are super loud AND generate CO2....but i cant afford one, and dont speak much italian so...

 

[Sgt.Stedenko]

Polk Atrium 60's
Waterproof, meet mil spec for moisture and corrosion, good bass, wall mounts included.

 

[supermanlives]

i had several of those outdoor speakers in my last grow. they are designed for outdoors so they do well in a grow. sorry dont remember the brand

 

[Yes4Prop215]

i was gonna do the exact same thing.....i have an old laptop that im gonna connect to a set of computer speakers....run the XM radio off the wireless, having good music in the growroom definately helps pass the time especially when you are harvesting....

 

[In~Plain~Site]

What's your budget?

Radio Shack has some decently priced outdoor speakers that sound just fine for what you'll be using it for.I believe they're actually made by Yamaha...

The Polk Atriums are the bees knees though.

 

[Iron_Lion]

A 10k jungle and a great sound system now that sounds like a garden of weeden.

 

[stillsmokin843]

bose makes a good outside deck speaker wall mount

 

[187020]

two twelves bridged will knock homie !!

 

[ShroomDr]

two twelves bridged will knock homie !!

Shit, i gotta save my juice for the HID. I keep my sub in the basement (two 12s too).
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Got a pair of Bose Companion II for $60.

They sounded awesome in the store; loud and clear.

But once i put them in my room, with the AC, dehuey, circulation and extraction fans, i wish they were louder..

I can hear them fine, but i want to ROCK!

 

[Bobby Stainless]

I just bought some Logitech THX 2.1 computer speakers.

It came with a 200w sub, and was only 130 bucks.

Extremely rich sound.

 

[JRace]

If your in the US (or Canada) I recommend www.Monoprice.com
While the sound quality may not be the best, you are putting them in a location that prevents you from getting good sound anyways (too much noise in the grow room).

You want a water resistant speaker. They make some decent ones for cheap.

DO NOT use regular speakers (indoor only ones) as they will not last in a humid environment.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

Hate to be a wet blanket, but I want to hear if someone's knocking at my front door.

 

[SoulMachete]

hey crusader i was thinking the same thing! i have music on nearly constantly however when im in my garden i always turn everything off..i guess i just feel safer being able to hear everything thats going on around me. i wish it didn't have to be like that...

 

[SoulMachete]

but....if you must...i strongly recommend cambridge soundworks speakers. pound for pound they are the best speakers on the market. i'm sure they must have an outdoor or in wall speaker that would work out well....

 

[ShroomDr]

Hate to be a wet blanket, but I want to hear if someone's knocking at my front door.

wireless baby monitor

 

[Iron_Lion]

hey crusader i was thinking the same thing! i have music on nearly constantly however when im in my garden i always turn everything off..i guess i just feel safer being able to hear everything thats going on around me. i wish it didn't have to be like that...

Time to buy a dog. My boys let me know if there is something that needs my attention. A couple of big dogs and a chihuahua is a very good security system.

 

[Hundred Gram Oz]

Hey IC I copied this from another forum so you could have a look, it's very interesting and recommend read for all growers.


Beethoven's Midnight Sonata to guide you through the read...enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

In 1973, a woman named Dorothy Retallack published a small book called The Sound of Music and Plants. Her book detailed experiments that she had been conducting at the Colorado Woman’s College in Denver using the school’s three Biotronic Control Chambers. Mrs. Retallack placed plants in each chamber and speakers through which she played sounds and particular styles of music. She watched the plants and recorded their progress daily. She was astounded at what she discovered.

Her first experiment was to simply play a constant tone. In the first of the three chambers, she played a steady tone continuously for eight hours. In the second, she played the tone for three hours intermittently, and in the third chamber, she played no tone at all. The plants in the first chamber, with the constant tone, died within fourteen days. The plants in the second chamber grew abundantly and were extremely healthy, even more so than the plants in the third chamber. This was a very interesting outcome, very similar to the results that were obtained from experiments performed by the Muzak Corporation in the early 1940s to determine the effect of "background music" on factory workers. When music was played continuously, the workers were more fatigued and less productive, when played for several hours only, several times a day, the workers were more productive, and more alert and attentive than when no music was played.

For her next experiment, Mrs. Retallack used two chambers (and fresh plants). She placed radios in each chamber. In one chamber, the radio was tuned to a local rock station, and in the other the radio played a station that featured soothing "middle-of-the-road" music. Only three hours of music was played in each chamber. On the fifth day, she began noticing drastic changes. In the chamber with the soothing music, the plants were growing healthily and their stems were starting to bend towards the radio! In the rock chamber, half the plants had small leaves and had grown gangly, while the others were stunted. After two weeks, the plants in the soothing-music chamber were uniform in size, lush and green, and were leaning between 15 and 20 degrees toward the radio. The plants in the rock chamber had grown extremely tall and were drooping, the blooms had faded and the stems were bending away from the radio. On the sixteenth day, all but a few plants in the rock chamber were in the last stages of dying. In the other chamber, the plants were alive, beautiful, and growing abundantly.

Mrs. Retallack’s next experiment was to create a tape of rock music by Jimi Hendrix, Vanilla Fudge, and Led Zeppelin. Again, the plants turned away from the music. Thinking maybe it was the percussion in the rock music that was causing the plants to lean away from the speakers, she performed an experiment playing a song that was performed on steel drums. The plants in this experiment leaned just slightly away from the speaker; however not as extremely as did the plants in the rock chambers. When she performed the experiment again, this time with the same song played by strings, the plants bent towards the speaker.

Next Mrs. Retallack tried another experiment again using the three chambers. In one chamber she played North Indian classical music performed by sitar and tabla, in another she played Bach organ music, and in the third, no music was played. The plants "liked" the North Indian classical music the best. In both the Bach and sitar chambers, the plants leaned toward the speakers, but he plants in the Indian music chamber leaned toward the speakers the most.

She went on to experiment with other types of music. The plants showed no reaction at all to country and western music, similarly to those in silent chambers. However, the plants "liked" the jazz that she played them. She tried an experiment using rock in one chamber, and "modern" (dischordant) classical music of negative composers Arnold Schönberg and Anton Webern in another. The plants in the rock chamber leaned 30 to 70 degrees away from the speakers and the plants in the modern classical chamber leaned 10 to 15 degrees away.

I spoke with Mrs. Retallack about her experiments a few years after her book was published, and at that time I began performing my own experiments with plants using a wood-frame and clear-plastic-covered structure that I had built in my back yard. For one month, I played three-hours-a-day of music from Arnold Schönberg’s negative opera Moses and Aaron, and for another month I played three-hours-a-day of the positive music of Palestrina. The effects were clear. The plants subjected to Schönberg died. The plants that listened to Palestrina flourished.

In these experiments, albeit basic and not fully scientific, we have the genesis of a theory of positive and negative music. What is it that causes the plants to thrive or die, to grow bending toward a source of sound or away from it?

Source: http://www.dovesong.com/positive_mus...xperiments.asp

HGO

 

[Sgt.Stedenko]

Kewl.
I see the old broad's conclusion was rock and roll = death.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

Sorry to sidetrack GanjaPharma's thread.

hey everyone!

i need your recommendation on some good growroom speakers.

any recommendations?

 

[GanjaPharma]

o man,
worked all day, checked the thread, and got some awesome info, thank you all!
i found some of those polk speakers but am gonna have a hard time selling $300 speakers to my wife (who will retaliate by buying a $500 tech toy...she is a total geek).
the atrium 4's are $120 on amazon, i might just grab those though.

also looking at some yamaha speakers that are around $90

@Jrace damn those are some low priced speakers! you make a good point about all the rattle and hum in the room, i just dunno if they will be loud enough.

my inside worklight is rigged to flash whenever the doorbell goes off.
(if its the popo they usually knock pretty loud with a sledgehammer just about the time the door comes flying off the hinges.)

so prolly gonna get something around 100-150 and just need to figur out how to wire em into a small adapter for my mp3player.