[Rhodes22-list] Stereo or no stereo

[Leland]

Cowie & cjlowe (Jerry),

My apologies for mixing you two guys up.  I'll blame it on my dyslexia and
your similar names.  Since it's about 3:00 a.m. I must also suffer from
insomia.  Lucky that I'm not an athiest or I'd be up all night wondering if
there really is a Dog.

I went with the boombox and just leave it on the boat.  You can place it
wherever you'd like in the cabin or cockpit and always use it away from the
boat too.  I rarely listen to it when I'm sailing and don't spend much time
at anchor.  Most of its use has been at the dock.

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  At Ease
Kent Island, MD



cjlowe-2 wrote:
> 
> 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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