Entertaining, effortlessly
Even music across the whole garden for a party, with no single loud speaker by the door and no dead spots down the lawn.
AV solutions · outdoor audio
Bring the indoors out.
Sound that fills the garden, terrace and pool, and hides in the planting while it does it.
A barbecue with music across the whole garden, a quiet coffee on the terrace, an evening by the fire pit. A designed outdoor system gives your garden the same effortless sound as the rooms inside: full, even, weatherproof, and from speakers you can barely see. Not a portable speaker on a table, but proper sound built into the landscape, run from the same app as the rest of your home.
[ garden at golden hour, music filling the space, no speaker visible ]
Why a designed system
More garden, more often.
A proper system is not about volume. It is about making the garden somewhere you want to be, for more of the year.
Quiet mornings too
Not just for parties. A podcast with your coffee, the radio in the garden, an album by the fire. The everyday moments are where it earns its keep.
It disappears
Hidden in the borders, beds and eaves, so you hear the music and see the garden, not the kit.
The speakers
Even sound, happy neighbours.
A garden has no walls to contain sound, so one loud speaker just blasts the patio and fades down the lawn. A designed system uses several smaller speakers for even coverage, and by firing them inward across your own space rather than at the boundary, you get rich sound everywhere without it carrying to the neighbours. The best ones are the speakers you never notice, and we will often mix all three approaches across one garden.
[ landscape speaker hidden in a planted border ]
Landscape and planted
Small satellites in the borders with a buried subwoofer, spreading even sound across the whole garden. The system you cannot see. Sonance Garden Series is the benchmark.
[ discreet speaker mounted under the eaves of a terrace ]
Mounted and on-wall
Weatherproof speakers under the eaves or on a wall, giving focused, high-quality sound over a patio or seating area. Bowers & Wilkins and Monitor Audio, in paintable finishes.
[ terrace pair with the app on a phone ]
Wireless and simple
Where cabling is not practical, Sonos by Sonance on a Sonos Amp gives a finished garden great stereo sound from the app you already use.
Part of the bigger picture
The garden, as another room.
Outdoor audio works best as one more zone of your home's audio, not a separate island with its own app.
Multi-room audio
The garden becomes another zone: the same music inside and out as you move through the doors, or something different outside, all from one app.
Your smart home
Tied into Control4, one evening scene can light the garden, warm the terrace heaters and start the music together as the sun goes down.
Also pairs with lighting control and networking and Wi-Fi.
The brands
We only recommend what we would put in our own gardens.
Independent, so we choose from the whole market and pick what genuinely suits your garden. The ones we reach for most:
Sonance
The reference for hidden landscape audio. The Garden Series spreads even sound across a large garden from speakers down in the planting.
Bowers & Wilkins
When sound quality leads, and a terrace is somewhere you really listen. Serious audio pedigree in weatherproof, design-led speakers.
Sonos and Sonos by Sonance
The easy wireless route for a finished garden: great stereo sound, the app you already use, and it ties into a wider Sonos system indoors.
Amina
For a covered terrace or a feature wall where nothing can show. Plastered into the surface, with the sound radiating through the finish.
- Sonance
- Bowers & Wilkins
- Sonos
- Monitor Audio
- Amina
Why us
Why have us do it.
A portable speaker you buy yourself. A garden that sounds effortless everywhere, from kit you cannot see, is designed and installed.
We design the coverage
The right speakers in the right places for even sound across the whole space, and placed to keep it off the neighbours.
Independent across the best brands
We specify what suits your garden rather than what we are meant to sell.
Built to live outdoors
Properly weatherproof speakers and connections that survive a British winter, not consumer kit that quits after a season.
One app, with the rest of the home
The garden becomes another zone of your audio and smart home, not a separate system with its own remote.
Tell us about your garden, and we will design the sound for it.
A free garden audio consultation. No jargon, no pressure, just honest advice on what would work.
Frequently asked
Garden audio: quick answers.
- What are the best outdoor speakers?
- There is no single best, because it depends on your garden. Sonance Garden Series for hidden, even coverage. Bowers & Wilkins or Monitor Audio for quality over a terrace. Sonos by Sonance for an easy wireless system. Amina where nothing can show. As independent installers across all of these, we design the right one for your space rather than selling one product.
- What is a garden audio or outdoor sound system?
- A designed, permanent outdoor system: several weatherproof speakers placed for even coverage, rather than one portable Bluetooth speaker. Wired or wireless, controlled from an app, and usually run as part of a wider whole-home audio system.
- Can outdoor speakers be hidden in the garden?
- Yes, and the best ones are. Landscape speakers sit low in the borders with a buried subwoofer. Mounted speakers come in paintable finishes. Amina invisible speakers plaster into a wall or ceiling with no visible hardware at all.
- Will outdoor speakers annoy my neighbours?
- A well-designed system should not. Several smaller speakers placed for even coverage and fired inward across your own garden give rich sound at a comfortable level, without it carrying next door.
- Wired or wireless, which is better?
- Both work well. Wired gives the most even coverage across a large garden and suits landscaping or building work. Wireless, such as Sonos by Sonance, is ideal for a finished garden, though it needs good Wi-Fi outside. Many gardens use a mix of the two.
- Can I play the same music inside and outside?
- Yes. With the garden set up as a zone of a whole-home system, you can play the same music inside and out as you move through the doors, or something different outside, all from one app.
[ garden at dusk, lighting and music on, sound everywhere, speakers nowhere ]
Let us design the sound for your garden.
Landscaping from scratch, or adding sound to a finished garden. It starts with a free consultation. We will look at how you use the space and design a system that sounds full and even, from speakers you cannot spot.
Acoustic Pixel Ltd · Unit 7, Mandale Park, Cannon Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 5AJ · 01642 903907