# Outdoor Loud Speaker - Wireless!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-loud-speaker-wireless/670365>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 4, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-loud-speaker-wireless/670365 "2013-10-04T15:36:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![M253-The-Invader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@M253-The-Invader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M253-The-Invader)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-loud-speaker-wireless/670365/1 "2013-10-04T15:36:58Z")

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**WHAT**  
I need thought assistance to put up a speaker (old style megaphone) on the outside of my house, preferably wireless and connect it to a laptop. The speaker(s) might be easy to get but a wireless? I want to click a desktop icon and frighten the neighborhood or scare children on Halloween (plus cause general fear). So, I need assistance on what I need by way of WIFI speaker (all weather).

**WHY**  
Now 😃 bwahaha, what I’m going to do is record my female Catahoula Leopard’s warning howl… always the first sound from her before barking. It is the most chilling, frightening animal sound I’ve heard and other people have heard. We call it the “graveyard howl” :D… it might take days to get it through a recording board and drop mics but we’ll get it. I live in a **heavily** forested sub-division which makes it more fun.

I wish I had the sound file to share now, but I don’t. When I do, I will share. This seemed to be the right category as opposed to the “house fix” category.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-loud-speaker-wireless/670365/2 "2013-10-05T00:08:13Z")

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Reported for forum change.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-loud-speaker-wireless/670365/3 "2013-10-05T02:59:52Z")

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Moving to IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outdoor-loud-speaker-wireless/670365/4 "2013-10-05T15:07:23Z")

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There are all sorts of [bluetooth speakers](http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=bluetooth%20speaker&index=blended) available, so assuming your laptop has bluetooth, that’s the ticket. As far as loud, I can attest that the [Jamboxes](http://www.amazon.com/Jawbone-JAMBOX-Wireless-Bluetooth-Speaker/dp/B004E10KI8/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1380985542&sr=8-13&keywords=bluetooth+speaker) are quite loud, but they’re not cheap, either. They also make a [URL=“[http://www.amazon.com/Jawbone-JAMBOX-Wireless-Bluetooth-Speaker/dp/B006AXRR3Y/ref=pd\_sim\_cps\_5](http://www.amazon.com/Jawbone-JAMBOX-Wireless-Bluetooth-Speaker/dp/B006AXRR3Y/ref=pd_sim_cps_5)”]bigger version/URL], which I assume is louder, but it’s also more expensive.