[Rhodes22-list] Stereo or no stereo

[pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net]

I took an approach that seemed perfectly logical to me at the time (and
still does), but that I've heard no one mention yet.  I put my speakers in
the cabin facing aft.  One is cut into the forward battery compartment and
the other is cut into the wall between the galley and the head.  It gives
good speaker separation in the cabin and, since they're facing aft, I can
hear them in the cockpit.  One set of speakers covers everything.  The
tuner is mounted behind the sliding mirrored panel just above the counter
to the far right hand side.  They even mounted a waterproof remote
power/volume/tuning control under the starboard cockpit seat (through the
lazerette).

There is nothing like listening to the Cubbies while sailing on a
beautiful summer weekend.

Paul
>
> 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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