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Post by Cole D on Nov 12, 2021 22:15:03 GMT -5
Tonight I went to the new Burlington Coat Factory that just opened and I saw it has Bose speakers. They are light gray, cylindrical in shape. There's no ceiling, it's open to the metal roof above, and the speakers are suspended at about the height a ceiling would be.
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Post by fancollector12 on Nov 15, 2021 4:17:52 GMT -5
My local Target just remodeled. Before they had speakers shaped like cannons mounted to some of the posts for paging purposes, but they never played music through them. They just recently installed a bunch of generic ceiling speakers with the white plastic frames and gray metal grilles all throughout the store, and now they play music in the store.
My local DSW shoe store has a bunch of white pendant speakers hanging on cables from the ceiling, but I'm not sure what brand they are. The second closest DSW has a bunch of white Bose Model 32SE's mounted high up on the ceiling.
In terms of drug stores, I was just at a Walgreens yesterday that had a bunch of Muzak 8" 70V ceiling speakers, which are essentially just rebranded Quam Model BR8-W's. My local CVS just has a bunch of generic ceiling speakers like my local Target has, with the white plastic frames and gray mesh grilles. My local Walgreens used to be a Rite Aid, and has always had Bose Freespace Model 6 ceiling speakers, but they don't sound very good (I'm assuming they're not using a Bose Freespace amplifier to power them, and instead are using a generic 25V/70V amplifier).
I work for a car dealership that has a Chevrolet (Chevy) store, as well as a Jeep store. The Jeep store has some Quam Model BR8-W 8" 70V ceiling speakers that are only used for paging (they use an LCD 42" flatscreen smart TV mounted to the wall for streaming music in the showroom over the internet). They also have some generic white plastic ceiling speakers with gray mesh grilles installed in the service/parts area, and play internet music on them. Prior to remodeling several years ago, they had a bunch of woodgrain Realistic 8" wall speakers with black cloth grilles like you'd see in schools in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The storage building across the street used to be an electrical supply house/store, and we use it for our detailing shop and storehouse for parts. The main showroom area of the old electrical supply house/store has a bunch of Lowell 8" ceiling speakers with tan plastic grilles (the grilles have a radial pattern with an "X" cross shape dividing the radial pattern into four sections, that's the best I can describe them), as well as 2 or 3 white Quam replacements with the Model BR8-WP plastic grilles (the ones that look like Atlas Sound Model P900's). I've searched for where the speaker wire connects to, but can't find any wiring coming from the walls. Likely they were disconnected 20 years ago when the electrical supply house/store closed due to the owner(s) retiring, and my boss purchasing the building from them.
The Chevy store has a bunch of Bogen 4" 25V/70V "E-Z Install" ceiling speakers (the ones that attach to the ceiling tiles using plastic "dog leg" anchors, have the volume control in the center of the plastic speaker grille, and have spring-loaded speaker terminals) in the indoor areas of the dealership, as well as generic white outdoor speakers outside. They usually have some SiriusXM Satellite Radio station playing over them, and also use them for paging. They were installed in the forced Chevy/General Motors (GM) corporate remodel in 2012, but I'm not sure what they had installed before the remodel.
We also used to have a used car store (that also once sold Suzuki cars before their demise in North America in 2013), and sold used cars until 2020. The showroom had 2 Polk Audio Model S4 black bookshelf speakers mounted to metal "L" brackets in the ceiling. Outside on poles and on the building, we had a bunch of grayish-white colored outdoor speakers from the '90's (which I believe are Speakercraft brand). All of the speakers were hooked up to a Niles Audio speaker selector and amplifier that was connected to a Philips A/M-F/M shelf system with dual cassette decks and a 3CD changer from 1999. We only used that system for music, and generally played the local Adult Contemporary Pop station. We used our Avaya telephone system for paging, since it was a small dealership. Down the street from the old Suzuki/used car dealership, my boss has another building he rents out that was once a car dealership. Back in the late 1980's, he installed a bunch of white Realistic/Radio Shack 8" ceiling speakers on the generic metal grilles that have the slight indentation to them throughout the building. I don't believe they're connected to anything anymore, although the speaker wiring for them still hangs out of the wall near a shelf where a stereo receiver was once presumably mounted.
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Post by Cole D on Nov 24, 2021 20:09:44 GMT -5
I went to a new store tonight called Five Below, and they had Bose speakers that were cylindrical in shape and tapered slightly. They looked similar to the ones at Burlington. I guess Bose speakers are popular in retail places around here. There was also a large black speaker on a stand out on the sidewalk that was blasting music toward the parking lot, but I didn't see what brand it was...
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Post by fancollector12 on Nov 27, 2021 4:43:40 GMT -5
Our Five Below has the cylindrical speakers, but they're not Bose. I think they may be Soundtube brand, installed on an open-beam ceiling (it's been a Five Below for about 15 or so years now). Before Five Below moved in, it was a small pet store, and they had the generic plastic ceiling speaker grilles that could have either been Quam BR8WP's or Atlas Sound P900's on a drop tile ceiling. That pet store had a very odd ceiling fan install of several white 36"(?) industrial ceiling fans with curved blades installed near the curved front window of the store (but no other fans in the store). The pet store always played the local FM pop station. I think Five Below has some sort of Internet radio network that I believe is customized for Five Below. Of course no fans in Five Below.
I should also mention that the store I used to work at had some 2000s-era A/M-F/M-Cassette-CD boombox with an analogue radio tuner (I think it was a Phillips/Magnavox boombox, but I don't remember for certain) that we kept on top of one of the shelves at the front of the store. My boss typically kept it on the local "Jack FM" station (since it was up high, we didn't typically change it), but he would change it to the local Lite FM station during the Christmas season, because they played Christmas music. The odd part about the boombox was that one of the two speakers went out on it, so only one channel of audio played through it. He also had a black Bose Bluetooth speaker that his wife bought him for Christmas one year that he had hooked up to an old 1st-Gen iPad with the iHeartRadio app installed on it. Although we didn't use the Bose speaker much, as we preferred to just use the boombox (instead of having to worry about charging the speaker and iPad every night). We'd just pull the radio plug from the wall when we closed the store every night, and plug it back in when we came in in the morning, the boombox already switched on and the volume and radio station already set up. In terms of ceiling fans in the store, we had 2 plug-in portable Chinese ceiling fans installed on hooks, but my boss installed an NOS "Essential Home" PB 52" GEV ceiling fan with 5 blades and the 3-light light kit with fluted glass shades (he installed it without the light kit) that originally came from Ames (I now have the two portable ceiling fans in my collection). We also had a late 1970s-era blue-bladed Galaxy 3150 12" desk fan (a "Transition" model with the base that they used until the early-1990s, but the 1970's-era front center grille badgE), as well as a 16" grey-bladed Panasonic desk fan from the mid-1980s.
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