[Rhodes22-list] Stereo or no stereo

[cjlowe at sssnet.com]

If the money isn't a big factor,I would pop for the sound system.The day
you don't bother to bring the boom box,will be the day you spend 2 or 3
hours hunkered down in the cabin waiting out a thunderstorm at anchor.
I have weather proof box speakers hung from brackets mounted under the
rain channel under the cockpit seats.This only requires two 3/16" holes in
the channel,per speaker.My inside speakers and unit are mounted on a hunk
of oak that replaced the factory sliding mirror doors and storage shelf
aboue the galley.I'll try to post some pictures tomarrow.

Jerry Lowe

> 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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