Gordon wrote in news:13supbbjuh7nf1
@corp.supernews.com:

Went to replace my old am/fm and ran smack into HD Radio vs DRM+.
So
how is this going to shake out?
Basically, all I need is a am/fm cd radio that will pull in a
signal
from a distance. Any recommendations?
Gordon

The most expensive "marine AM/FM/CD player" is the cheapest car radio/CD
player with a white, not black, front on it.....

Hidden under or in a cabinet, black is beautiful. So, buy the cheapest
AM/FM/CD player you can find from the net and hide it inside somewhere
you can get to easily. Buy two at $30 and put one in a plastic ziplock
bag for when the salt air eats the first one, a hotswap spare with the
same plug on it.

Make SURE it has a FRONT PANEL MOUNTED stereo input jack so when I come
aboard with my computer or MP3 player with 90,000 great songs on it,
I'll have some place to plug it in so I don't have to bring my speaker
amps, too!

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Best Buy's car stereo department FINALLY has a stereo with bluetooth
INSTALLED, NOT "BLUETOOTH READY", which means you fork over another $100
for a "module".

When noone was looking, I paired it with my Motorola ROKR Z6m Bluetooth
sellphone, all loaded up with Jimmy Buffett and Carolina Beach Music. I
left the radio on, loudly, like the rappers that normally play them run
them.

I walked off about 50', brought up the MP3 player on the phone and
pressed PLAY. Beach music rolled out of the monsterous speakers to the
delight of every old fart cruising the aisles. We got half way through
the 3rd Buffett hit, "Son of a Sailor", before the store rappers figured
out which of the 50 radios in the rack was playing this terrible noise
they'd never heard before....PRICELESS!

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If you get a Bluetooth INSTALLED car radio for the cabinet, you can load
up your tiny cellphone's microSD card with MP3 songs off
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.(genre) before you go to the boat, let Bluetooth
automatically connect to the boat's new stereo system, and play what you
like from your shirt pocket....complete with the phone's volume control,
fast forward, pause and HANDSFREE SPEAKERPHONE...right through the boat
radio! No fumbling around with scratched-up, halfassed CDs that only
play 40 minutes of the SAME artist, or some overpriced CD changer the
sea air is shortly going to eat away.

Carry different moods of music on different microSD cards to plug into
the phone and you're set for the whole cruise! You're laying in your
berth, click that special song she loves on your sellphone MP3 player
and play it softly throughout the boat....how romantic!...(c;

"Please....release me....let me go...........
.....for I don't love you......anymore......."