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Am needing a small, good sounding stereo system for a small sailboat. Only
need AM FM and CD. What's a decent system with speakers at a decent price. Don't need sirius or xm or marine weather. Thanks Gordon |
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"Gordon" wrote in message ... Am needing a small, good sounding stereo system for a small sailboat. Only need AM FM and CD. What's a decent system with speakers at a decent price. Don't need sirius or xm or marine weather. Thanks Gordon The limiting factor for a "good sounding stereo on a small sailboat" will be the size of the speakers you can accommodate. In my boats I have just used car stereo units. They work fine and have more than enough power to produce adequate sound levels in a boat. With small speakers you don't get much bass. If you really want good sound you could get a car stereo guy to outfit the boat with separate speakers for bass, mid and treble. |
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"Gordon" wrote: Am needing a small, good sounding stereo system for a small sailboat. Only need AM FM and CD. What's a decent system with speakers at a decent price. We have a standard auto unit with good speakers inside & out, but when it dies, I'll just put a boom box onboard that can also run off 12v and has an MP3 input. CDs aren't a factor for us any more, since I can carry everything we own in a shirt pocket and the marine environment is hard on CDs. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:47:43 +0000, Jere Lull wrote:
We have a standard auto unit with good speakers inside & out, but when it dies, I'll just put a boom box onboard that can also run off 12v and has an MP3 input. CDs aren't a factor for us any more, since I can carry everything we own in a shirt pocket and the marine environment is hard on CDs. For me, this was one of those "Now why the hell didn't I think of that?" moments. Nice one. This is going to free up a pile of storage space. iPod here I come. |
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:21:59 +0000, Gordon Wedman wrote:
With small speakers you don't get much bass. If you really want good sound you could get a car stereo guy to outfit the boat with separate speakers for bass, mid and treble. so true -going the budget route as I like to do, I hauled out a 30 year old pair of Jensen 6x9's I had sitting in the garage and installed them into the interior bulkheads that support the quarter berth and the main settee, down low to the floor. The storage space under the berths provides an almost perfect sound box and the lids with the little thumbholes under the cushions act like ports. The reproduction is shockingly good and I'm comparing it against the 70's vintage Marantz quad/Dynaco gear I use at home. |
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"prodigal1" wrote in message news On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:21:59 +0000, Gordon Wedman wrote: With small speakers you don't get much bass. If you really want good sound you could get a car stereo guy to outfit the boat with separate speakers for bass, mid and treble. so true -going the budget route as I like to do, I hauled out a 30 year old pair of Jensen 6x9's I had sitting in the garage and installed them into the interior bulkheads that support the quarter berth and the main settee, down low to the floor. The storage space under the berths provides an almost perfect sound box and the lids with the little thumbholes under the cushions act like ports. The reproduction is shockingly good and I'm comparing it against the 70's vintage Marantz quad/Dynaco gear I use at home. That's an interesting idea. I have two small storage compartments at the forward end of my port and starboard settees. The rest of the space is water tanks. I could mount speakers in the side of these but they would be rather close to the cabin sole. Might be good for bass speakers? |
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A jump drive is an external memory device generally connected to
compatible computers via usb plug, possibly wirelessly. It is hot swapppable, and can carry any form of data desired. Your Ipod is a form of jump drive. Some are 80 Gbyte hard drives, some are "dongles" and may carry only a single cryptolump of data, as with some new car keys. This is the form the human AI will take, particulated, hibernating, mobile, communicable, operational and survivable meme based intellect with perfect memory if not recall or cognizance, yet. Indexing will become the next, even last psciance. Terry K |
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Gordon wrote: Am needing a small, good sounding stereo system for a small sailboat. Only need AM FM and CD. What's a decent system with speakers at a decent price. Don't need sirius or xm or marine weather. Thanks Gordon Gordon, You can find very simple waterproof stereos all over the place that have great sound. Lots of times you can even get packages. Poly Planar might be a very good choice for you, of course their is JBL, Sony, Jensen, Aquatic AV and more. Sony will probably be the most inexpensive, there are sony packages that have a cd player, housing and pair of 61/2" speaker for only $250. Keep your eyes peeled, they are available! Brandon www.boatersbasement.com |
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They are on the net as roadmasterusa.com. However, their trade label is
VR3. Mine is now discontinued and they've upgraded to a slightly more techy version of the same thing. Call your local WalMarts and ask the automotive department if they have any of those $88 special radios with the USB port. A jump drive is usually just a chip based memory device, anywhere from 256 to 4G. I have an older one which is a card reader, essentially, taking SD cards. Very inexpensive at places like eCost.com where I got mine; a 1G multifast SD card these days is like $8 after rebate... -- L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at http://justpickone.org/skip/gallery/ "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." "ray" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:51:19 -0400, "Skip Gundlach" skipgundlach at gmail dotcom wrote: Better yet - no moving parts - get an automotive unit with a jump drive USB input. My $88 WalMart unit reads CD/DVD/MP3/WMA in the slot, the USB reads wma and mp3, 180 watts into 4 speakers and the current unit even has a remote... So is there a brand name for this thing? Also, I have never heard of a jump drive. Our original thought was ipod but we'll never carry one, and jump drives are ultra cheap. A gig will last a great long while of music; you could buy bigger if you needed more time on the air, but ... No moving parts... See my gallery for examples in recent months... L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at http://justpickone.org/skip/gallery/ "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon" Newsgroups: rec.boats.cruising Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:37 PM Subject: AM-FM Radio Am needing a small, good sounding stereo system for a small sailboat. Only need AM FM and CD. What's a decent system with speakers at a decent price. Don't need sirius or xm or marine weather. Thanks Gordon |
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