All,
I have a “car” stereo on board the Enterprise, which worked fine with
speakers inside and out, but now I’m removing it — so before you go running
wires and drilling big holes, I suggest you consider this: A portable bluetooth
speaker.
We all have our iPhones, iPads Galaxy’s and Droids all loaded with
Internet radio and your own playlists of practically every song you’ve ever
heard in your entire life. Most can be charged via USB and you can put them
wherever you want them and some have controls to pause, skip or replay songs
right on the speaker, so you can leave your phone or tablet down below where it
won’t get wet or fall overboard. I have one that even lets me interact with
Siri, so I can, while my phone sits in the chart table below, push a button and
say “Play songs by Train” and after a second, Siri responds with “Here’s your
Train”, followed by Hey Soul Sister, Drive-By, Angel in Blue Jeans, etc. Sweet.
I’ve seen some which are completely waterproof and even let you receive
calls.
The sound quality is great, there’s no drain on your boat’s batteries,
and there’s no annoying DJs or commercials (I used to be a DJ). Plus there’s no
big magnets interfering with compasses and no cursing that there’s music in the
cockpit while you’re lounging on the foredeck.
Have a bunch of CDs? Rip them into digital files and store them on your
computer/device. The first CDs made are starting to fail now. Get your music
off of them and get rid of them. One rainy day and you can do a ton. I have so
much music digitized that I could play my iPhone for three days straight and
never hear the same song twice. Most radio stations can’t go four hours without
playing the same song twice.
Better listening experience, no wires, no holes, no battery drain, and
no magnetic interference.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log
On Sep 9, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Richard N. Bush via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> Joel, we used the inspection ports for speakers on my 33-II, even though they
> were not equally spaced apart; in the cockpit you never get tru stereo
> anyway...it worked great; I am not a big fan of putting extra holes in the
> boat either!
>
> Richard
> 1985 37 CB; Ohio River, Mile 584;
>
> Richard N. Bush
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> Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Aronson via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
> To: Rich Knowles <r...@sailpower.ca>; cnc-list <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 9, 2014 8:55 am
> Subject: Re: Stus-List Stereo finally works
>
> I'm thinking of mounting the new speakers in the inspection port covers in
> the transom. I hate cutting holes in my boat! I'll wait for the Defender
> sale to shop for speakers, but I rarely sail with the stereo on, so I'm not
> looking to spend big bucks.
>
> Joel
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Rich Knowles via CnC-List
> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> 8 or 4 ohms will make very little difference in sonic performance. The amps'
> outputs are much lower impedance so the speakers are in a bridging
> configuration.
>
> Rich
>
> On Sep 8, 2014, at 19:50, Sylvain Laplante via CnC-List
> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> One thing to remember is that most boat audio systems are 4 ohms and it is
>> better to use speakers with same impedance ( 8 ohm will take too much juice
>> ).
>> Sometimes you only discover it after everything is installed :-)
>>
>> Sylvain
>> C&C27MkIII
>>
>> From: Joel Aronson via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
>> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 6:25 PM
>> Subject: Stus-List Stereo finally works
>>
>> After three years my stereo is fully functional. I replaced the old stereo
>> with a Sony unit after I bought the boat. One of the 2 interior speakers
>> worked and the 2 cheapo West cockpit speakers worked.
>> After spending way too much time, I finally figured out that the speaker
>> wire was to corroded to carry a signal. Initially, I replaced most of the
>> wire with household wire. DON"T USE HOUSEHOLD SPEAKER WIRE. That lasted
>> about a season. I finally replaced all of the wire with marine grade wire.
>> Then I discovered that the rubber around the speaker cones disintegrated. I
>> bought 5 1/4 inch car speakers that fit into the enclosures for the cabin
>> speakers, and then found out the cockpit speakers did't work. Turns out
>> someone twisted and taped the connections. New crimp connectors fixed them.
>>
>>
>> Finally, 4 working speakers!
>> Now, need to upgrade the cockpit speakers.
>>
>> Joel
>> 35/3
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Joel
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