[Rhodes22-list] Stereo or no stereo

[David Bradley]

Cowie, I have been anti-holes-in the boat on most of these topics.  If
there is one thing I would do differently it's to have had a nice set
of speakers mounted and wired, and a good satellite-ready CD/tuner/MP3
player installed.

There is a nice little unit that Cambridge Soundworks sells that I did
install.  The speakers sound pretty good, and they fit inside the
small cabinet on the galley counter behind the mirrored doors.  You
open them to play and otherwise they are out of the way.  But the CD
player tuner is a pain on the galley counter, and you can't hear them
well in the cockpit.  I'd go for that mounting location again for
inside speaker.

Dave

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:32 PM, cowie <ccowie at cowieassociates.com> wrote:
>
> 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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