[Rhodes22-list] Stereo or no stereo

[cowie]

I am trying to decide if I should have stan install a stereo and speakers in
my new R22.  I don't listen to am/fm much but do enjoy having xm radio in my
car and in my office for occasional use.  I have a portable xm radio unit
that plugs into a boom box that can run on batteries or be plugged in.  The
simpler, but boxier, sollution would be to skip a stereo system and just
bring the boon box.  A more elegant but complicated solution would be to
install an am/fm sterero xm ready with flush mounted speaker in the cockpit
and a couple of speakers in the cabin.  I suspect stan could do a neater
installation while the boat is in fabrication or is installation afterwards
pretty easy?  My inclination is not to have holes cut into a new boat for
speakers and to simply bring the boon box.  I am curious What others think
about whether or not to have a stereo.



David Culp-3 wrote:
> 
> Someone may have already done this before so I'm just throwing this out
> there as a one man's solution:
> I had an old pair of stereo speakers left over from my remodel job lying
> around the garage.  They have articulating mounting brackets which
> probably
> cost as much as the speakers did and I wanted to put them to some use.  So
> I
> thought... Wouldn't it be nice to have some interior speakers in the boat
> to
> go along with my cockpit speakers.  My Sony CDX CD has 4 channels (front
> and
> rear) so the plan was to use the fader control to adjust the sound level
> between the sets or shutoff the cockpit speakers and direct all the sound
> to
> the inside set when you need to be quiet like at a crowded anchorage or
> slip
> at night.
> The Rhodes cabin is very ergonomically efficient and try as I might, I
> just
> couldn't figure out a good place to mount speakers in the cabin that was
> going to look good, be out of the way and sound good too.  There probably
> is
> a good place for the right type of speakers, but I don't have them. 
> Anyway,
> it dawned on me that the two sliding doors on the galley cabinet meet in
> the
> middle and there is enough space left for speakers to project sound into
> the
> cabin from the sides.
> 
> With articulating mounts, I was able to mount on the cabinet walls and
> then
> turn the speakers outward 90 degrees.  You will see in the photos that the
> left speaker is mounted a little lower then the right in order to clear
> the
> sink and the right is up and out of the way of the storage area.  You lose
> a
> little storage space but not much and it sounds really good.
> 
> To test it, I turned it up to a level a little higher then what you
> probably
> would need at night in the cabin; dropped the pop-top, installed the hatch
> cover and then walked around on the adjacent slips just to see what the
> noise level was.  You could hear it faintly, but I don't think it would
> disturb anyone.  Whether or not the sound is traveling through the water
> and
> you could hear it through the hull of another boat is another question.
> 
> It was fairly easy to install.  Just make sure your mounting screws are
> large enough to support the weight and short enough not to come through
> the
> other side of the wall into the head.  On the right side, I just used one
> of
> the screws already present holding the cooler in position and then added
> one
> making sure that it didn't penetrate the cooler lining.
> 
> Here's a link to the pictures:  http://r22spkrs.hsbtx.net
> 
> David
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