Spec me a bluetooth speaker for a warehouse

[Megahurtz400]

Hi guys,

Looking for a speaking for our warehouse, about 3000 sq ft.

Must be bluetooth, but doesn't need to be portable as it will be sitting in once place.

Budget of around £150.

Not looking for audiophile quality, just something loud enough to fill a decent space while working during the evenings/weekends and the office staff aren't in to moan about the volume

Cheers!

 

[Megahurtz400]

That's around 279m2.

That's a tall order! Outside of about 50ft it won't be audible in a quiet environment, even less with warehouse noise.

Best bet would be a site radio. Makita one with DAB/Bluetooth can be had for around budget on amazon.

It's quite a quiet warehouse, was thinking of going down the site radio route!

 

[Megahurtz400]

Ha-Ha-Ha....... I don't know if you realise it, but what you've just asked for is the AV equivalent of "spec me a £16,000 pick-up truck to pull this 26 tonne double axel trailer"

The size of the space you want to fill is going to cause two problems. The first is that sound dissipates over distance. The second (and related issue) is echo, or more accurately, reverberation. The sound will bounce off any hard surfaces and these reflections will compete and possibly swamp the direct sound and so make it hard to understand what's being played. It's the same problem that you used to have with the PA systems in railways stations and stadiums. It was hard to make out the announcements because of all the reverberation.

What all this means is that to even get the sound to the other end of the warehouse, you'll have to have the speaker on so loud that it will blast out anyone within a 30ft range (implications for noise at work, hearing loss etc etc), and what sound does make it any distance won't actually be more than just a jumbled mess.

There are mains powered PA speakers with Bluetooth for under £150. Here's something. Forget about filling a warehouse though. It's too tall an order.

Cheers for your reply

Although I get what you're saying, this is only going to be used when me and the other owner of the business are doing warehouse work in the evenings/weekends (Well we're the only two employees apart from the accounts lady, small business and just moved into a bigger warehouse). So we're not really after perfect quality sound, in every part of the space, just something we can put loud music on when we're in there alone.

I originally posted this in GD because I didn't need audiophile quality gear