Why the Niles Speaker Selector is a Good Choice
About 6 months ago I moved from my small one bedroom apartment to a 2 bedroom house with a nice backyard. Aside from the extra furniture I really had all the amenities I
needed and they moved with me. I hooked my stereo up to my entertainment system because I love the surround sound and the satellite TV I get comes with great music channels, which I like to leave on instead of the radio. After I got set up in my new digs I started working on the backyard, building a deck, I bought a nice grill, and even put up some nice mood lights. The one thing missing was music. I live in the middle of nowhere and basically have the freedom to play music as loudly as I like outback. I had an old boom box that I would take out when working or entertaining company, but it was tacky, and I always had to play radio stations. I figured I should rig a way to run my stereo output to my backyard, install some speakers in on the underside of the awning that comes out of the house, and be able to enjoy my satellite stations both in my living room and out back.
After researching the best ways to do this I finally settled on getting a speaker selector. I browsed for awhile and settled on a Niles speaker selector, because they seemed to have the best reviews and a good company history of solid audio. I ordered online and got it in the mail I think three days later. Okay, let me tell you, I’m no electrician and am not the most handy person when installing electronics and this thing installed very easily. The only trick for me was running speaker wire to my backyard, and installing the speakers in the awning. Taking a saw to your new house can be a little intense. The setup basically involved running my usual wires from the stereo to the speaker selector, then from the speaker selector to my living room speakers, and from the selector to my outdoor speakers.
The Niles speaker selector itself sits comfortably on top of the stereo. Its, small, nice-looking, and generally out of the way. To play music I can use either my satellite TV, my ipod, or I sometimes use my dvd player to play cds. Then if I want to listen to the music outside, I switch my speaker selector over and the music plays outside. I even have a little remote for my stereo that I leave outside and shoot through the window to control the volume. I throw the occasional get together and there is nothing more fun than grilling or soaking in the hot tub with high quality digital satellite music coming through my speakers outside