Get tips on planning your outdoor speaker system, including where to place your speakers and the other items you'll need to complete your setup.

See the basic steps involved in installing outdoor speakers in a typical installation, from running the wire to mounting your speakers.

Learn about what to look for when choosing outdoor speakers, including weather-readiness and the speaker designs best-suited for different setups.

Your back yard is a different listening environment than your typical room. Outside, there are no walls to reinforce bass response and reflect and contain sound, and there's usually much more background noise. Find out about special outdoor speakers.

Liven up a cookout or pool party with some outdoor tunes. We'll show you how in this brief article.

Learn about Polk's Atrium line of outdoor speakers, and get some recommendations for choosing the right model for your yard.

Definitive's AW 5500 and AW 6500 outdoor speakers provide dynamic, full-bodied sound. Their ultra-rugged build means they can be fully exposed to the elements.

In this article, you'll find tips and tricks to tackle common home A/V wire management problems.

This is a thorough, informative guide to help you run speaker, Ethernet, and audio/video cables through the walls in new construction and finished homes.

Learn how to choose, connect, and set up speakers for great music and home theater performance.

The place to start if you're interested in adding a multi-room system to your home.

There are a number of different ways to power a house full of speakers. Here's an overview of things you need to know.

These diagrams picture some of the most common ways people power multi-room audio systems.

I love it when my friends buy new gear and we all get to enjoy the benefits. My best friend's husband just installed a pair of Klipsch® AW-650...

With money tight for many of us this year, the "staycation" is in vogue this summer. Rather than spend hard-earned cash on a dream vacation, many are opting for shorter trips and more quality time...

In my first post in my outdoor speaker project series I talked about the gear I'd need to get my project for adding outdoor speakers to my deck off the ground. Now I'll take a look at how I'm...

Ralph Graves discovers Bose® Free Space® 51 environmental speakers can provide great outdoor sound for the great outdoors.

What you see when you look at the outside of a top-notch home speaker reveals only a fraction of the design and engineering that goes into it. In this article, we'll identify some of the various elements that go into one of the speakers we carry and explain how they make this speaker sound so good.

Crutchfield visits Polk headquarters to see the their outdoor speaker torture tests.

Jeff from PSB visited Crutchfield and told us all about the PSB CS500 outdoor speakers.