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Join Date: Oct 2005
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2023-01-08, 01:03

Outdoor speakers and not disturbing the neighbours just doesn't seem doable with cheap consumer speakers on a smallish urban lot. In ground speakers point upward to the listener, so that isn't going to help. Thus Yamaha's suggestion to have the speakers pointed down towards the listening area.

Your best bet is to, as you thought, use plants and obstacles to reduce the inevitable annoyance to anyone next door. I say inevitable, because clients I have that are on multi-acre plots have those kinds of speakers and you can still hear them an acre away even at modest levels for comfortable outdoor listening. Things like dense leafy evergreen shrubs would help, and an ugly brick wall with sound dampening materials. Avoid hard surfaces, on the ground, that will reflect the sound outward. Grass, or mats that will absorb, rather than reflect the sound would help as well.
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