mousehunter
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first post hear - but have been enjoying (kind of) reading hundreds of pages of reviews. At some point, it simply becomes too much to take in at one time - so figure I will make a post and see if members will find pity and give me some feedback.
My brother-in-law (and myself) has a beach vacation rental (first row - nothing in front of us but dunes and beach). While the primary goal is to operate it as a business and investment - we do get to enjoy it when nobody else wants to rent it (it is probably being rented about 30 weeks a year - abet we would love to push that up to 40). While some of our renters want to go and just relax, we know the property also attracts clients who want to throw a beach party-so we have been trying to develop that rental angle. Our primary deck space was mostly just for relaxing - so we put in a second 1k sq foot deck with a more playful attitude (Tiki bar with a view of the gulf). At least while we visit, we find ourselves on the second deck most of the time. Now it is time to upgrade the sound system (something more than an Alexa sitting on the bar - that can not compeate with the sound system from a house behind us on the third row)
I have a bad habit of going down rabbit holes. This started as trying to use a budget class D amp with bluetooth and some budget Dayton audio outdoor speakers. $400 all in. But I know those speakers would not put out the sound I was hoping for and the amp was hopelessly under powered (and honestly, probably trash when it came to audio quality as well-it needs to be better than the Alexa we are currently using). Eventually started looking at better brand integrated solutions. Really could not find much information on most of them, and seriously questioned how they would work. One was the Bose Music Amplifier with a pair of 251 speakers. But that more than doubled the budget. By that point, could put in a better streamer (WiiM), more powerful (abet still budget) Dayton Audio IO8XTB 8" outdoor speakers), and a Crown Amp, and still be in the same budget ballpark. Right now thinking about uppgrading that to a Buckeye Amp - and the hole just keeps getting deeper and the budget keeps getting abused.
Not really sure how much overhead I should have with the amp - and since it is a rental, how do I throttle it so the first renters don't melt the speakers. Salt air eats everything metal-so need the speakers to be pretty durable (we have to replace door knobs at least annually due to corrosion). Am I somewhere on the right track - or should I just find some powered bluetooth speakers and say good enough... Or should I keep digging a deeper hole - add a better DAC, a DSP to deal with getting it to sound remotely balanced... Kind of drowning in a pond of too much information, and a sea of too much bad information. Kind of trust this forum to have a better ratio of good to bad info than the internet as a whole (which seems to be 99% bad information).
Take pity on me, a neophyte. Lend me your wisdom.
My brother-in-law (and myself) has a beach vacation rental (first row - nothing in front of us but dunes and beach). While the primary goal is to operate it as a business and investment - we do get to enjoy it when nobody else wants to rent it (it is probably being rented about 30 weeks a year - abet we would love to push that up to 40). While some of our renters want to go and just relax, we know the property also attracts clients who want to throw a beach party-so we have been trying to develop that rental angle. Our primary deck space was mostly just for relaxing - so we put in a second 1k sq foot deck with a more playful attitude (Tiki bar with a view of the gulf). At least while we visit, we find ourselves on the second deck most of the time. Now it is time to upgrade the sound system (something more than an Alexa sitting on the bar - that can not compeate with the sound system from a house behind us on the third row)
I have a bad habit of going down rabbit holes. This started as trying to use a budget class D amp with bluetooth and some budget Dayton audio outdoor speakers. $400 all in. But I know those speakers would not put out the sound I was hoping for and the amp was hopelessly under powered (and honestly, probably trash when it came to audio quality as well-it needs to be better than the Alexa we are currently using). Eventually started looking at better brand integrated solutions. Really could not find much information on most of them, and seriously questioned how they would work. One was the Bose Music Amplifier with a pair of 251 speakers. But that more than doubled the budget. By that point, could put in a better streamer (WiiM), more powerful (abet still budget) Dayton Audio IO8XTB 8" outdoor speakers), and a Crown Amp, and still be in the same budget ballpark. Right now thinking about uppgrading that to a Buckeye Amp - and the hole just keeps getting deeper and the budget keeps getting abused.
Not really sure how much overhead I should have with the amp - and since it is a rental, how do I throttle it so the first renters don't melt the speakers. Salt air eats everything metal-so need the speakers to be pretty durable (we have to replace door knobs at least annually due to corrosion). Am I somewhere on the right track - or should I just find some powered bluetooth speakers and say good enough... Or should I keep digging a deeper hole - add a better DAC, a DSP to deal with getting it to sound remotely balanced... Kind of drowning in a pond of too much information, and a sea of too much bad information. Kind of trust this forum to have a better ratio of good to bad info than the internet as a whole (which seems to be 99% bad information).
Take pity on me, a neophyte. Lend me your wisdom.