Bathroom audio

Bill · 2009-04-20T17:52:01+00:00

Today's unexpected question was from a lady friend who is having her bedroom redone and wants to have a small stereo system put, hidden away, into the bedroom with speakers in the en-suite so she can shower/bathe or whatever and listen to the radio. The people fitting out the rooms have given her a spec and she has asked me for comments.They have suggested a simple mini system with AM/FM and CD, but cabled to some waterproof speakers in the en-suite area. The thing that struck me as odd was that the stereo is 8-ohm output, but the speakers say "fitted with 100volt transformer". Looking up waterproof speakers on the 'net, I see that most of them are indeed 100-volt line devices, although I seem to have found one 8-ohm pair.The question is, is it normal to just connect a standard stereo to one of the tappings on a 100-volt speaker for this sort of use? If installing something like this, are there legal implications such as a requirement for isolating transformers in the speaker cabling? Their proposed speakers look like little round ones in a housing like car door speakers.

Bathroom audio

Apr 20, 2009 43 Replies

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Tim S 17 years ago

Dave Plowman (News) coughed up some electrons that declared:

Re-reading it, yes you're right.

Why are we arguing then?

;-O

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Frank Erskine 17 years ago

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:12:54 +0100, Tim S had this to say:

Cos this is the Internet!

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Tim S 17 years ago

Frank Erskine coughed up some electrons that declared:

No the internet is when I deny everything, call Dave a t****r[1], then quote some unrelated stuff that google puked up based on one random word from the previous post.

[1] Which of course he isn't. Now I did find some asbestos sheet at the house the other day. Wonder how hard it is to make underpants?

;->

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Dave Plowman (News) 17 years ago

uk.d-i-y? ;-)

But then lots of information comes out of these sort of 'discussions'.

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