# @digitaltrends on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-07-05T17:36:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Digital Trends (@digitaltrends) — https://gondola.cc/digitaltrends

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First, some context: It was late summer 2017. August, in fact, when a bunch of trucks rumbled into my backyard around 7 a.m. on a Wednesday. An excavator quickly got to work, and we had the hole for a 16-by-33-foot swimming pool. 

Another part of that project was to put a cover over a good portion of the concrete decking that came with the pool. Any good covered, outdoor living space has to have some entertainment, of course. And I had some ideas.

Electronics made to withstand the outdoors aren’t anything new. But they’re still, generally speaking, much more expensive than something meant to be indoors. And that makes sense — you have to over-engineer for the elements. I didn’t want to deal with that. I already had a perfectly good Sonos Play:1 on hand. I’d heard them in an outdoors settings any number of times and it was plenty obvious that one was pretty powerful.

So I picked up a second Play:1, and a wall-mount for one of them. (The other is sitting on a shelf about 20 feet or so away.)

And since then, I haven’t really had to think about it, except to say that when I do, I marvel at how well this setup has worked, and for how long. After nearly six years in the Florida heat and humidity (and the occasional freeze, because Northwest Florida is weird like that), my pair of Play:1s performs as well as it did on Day 1. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve actually brought them inside — Hurricane Sally in 2020. I’ll occasionally wipe off the top of the speakers because pollen is another deadly threat here. But that’s it.

Otherwise, they just sit there, doing their thing.

By Phil Nickinson, Audio/Video Section Editor

#sonos #sonosplay1 #florida #outdoorspeakers

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