Marine audio, what watts and rms for good loud system, Looking to spend $200.00

[skargo]

Re: Marine audio, what watts and rms for good loud system, Looking to spend $200.00

Dont sweat it Bill...He's from Albany..from you that's..what..900 mile's? I dont think you'll hear it..

Now THAT would be some system if he could hear it.

 

[ziggy]

Re: Marine audio, what watts and rms for good loud system, Looking to spend $200.00

fwiw. i'm using all auto stereo equipment too. a panasonic indash w/4 panasonic 6 1/2'' speakers. the speakers are the plastic type, and that i'd think would be a good thing to get if yer going auto quality... my indash is 200w, 50x4.
the 200w is adequate, for me, w/o a amp. i can hear it at cruise speed. wot, i don't know, i don't do much wot with the stereo on. point is, it's plenty loud i think. it suits my needs.

i understand that panasonic is out of the radio biz. but i sure give my indash high marks. i'm on my second summer with it now after giving it a bath, thanks to a large cruiser that went by and made me take on water from the bow. i got a closed bow too, so it was a big wave. absolutely soaked my indash. water ingestion right down where ya put a cd into it. took a week + for it to dry out. only ramifications are some of the presets don't work any more.

sorry, i've no idea the price of what i got. the indash was givin to me by a buddy that didn't need it anymore and the speakers were payment for work for another buddy..

all in all, i'm most impressed with my panasonic for what it is and how i acquired it..

 

[Great_Lakes_Mariner]

Re: Marine audio, what watts and rms for good loud system, Looking to spend $200.00

First, get a good CD player with at least 4 volt Preamp outputs. Better signal, with less distortion. Second, save your money for a descent four channel amp with nothing less than 60 watts a channel. Third and most importantly, get a couple sets of good (and I mean good) speakers, because in the electronics world you really do get what you pay for. The key with the speakers is to find some with a sensitivity rating in the 89-94 range. Speakers with higher sensitivity will make the most out of the power they are getting, which would be great for running on the power of your CD player for a year, and then they will really sing when you get an amplifier.

 

[JoLin]

Re: Marine audio, what watts and rms for good loud system, Looking to spend $200.00

x2, just like the flatbillers who pull up next to me at a stop light with their screamo bullcrap pounding so everyone around can "enjoy" it. I thought only teenagers did that crap.

Besides, I like to listen to the sweet music my V8 makes while underway, the tunes are for when we're anchored.

x3. It's disturbing to me that those in this thread who raised an objection to listening to others' loud music on the water, in the park, on the road... are generally discounted. Granted, some amount of peripheral noise in close quarters is to be expected, and I don't begrudge you listening to whatever you want to hear. All too often, however, that noise is taken to the level where it intrudes. When I can hear you as well (or better) as I can hear my own stereo, or the conversation of the person next to me, you're behaving rudely.

Common courtesy dictates that you at least try to confine your 'noise' to the confines of your boat. Those of us who enjoy quiet have as much right to our space as you do.

Climbing down off the soapbox now...

 

[Thajeffski]

Re: Marine audio, what watts and rms for good loud system, Looking to spend $200.00

I didn't read all the replies, but here is what I got for around 180 bucks. NO AMP, they kick REALLY good and YES you can hear it over the engine just fine.

There is not going to be earth shattering base, however, you can feel it in the boat.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882117277
Headunit

http://www.buy.com/prod/pioneer-ele...marine-use-dual-cone/q/loc/111/202784310.html
speakers

I bought 2 of them.

They ROCK for sure.

 

[CheapboatKev]

Re: Marine audio, what watts and rms for good loud system, Looking to spend $200.00

Do a little homework on acoustics before you worry about super audio systems and lots of watts. Underway, there will be so much ambient noise that you will never hear the fidelity that high end sound systems produce. Trying to compete with a ridiculously loud engine is a waste of time too.

Buy a basic marine sound system that can produce enough volume to enjoy on your boat at anchor. If you are trying to get enough volume for everyone within miles to hear it too, you have made your first mistake in boating ediquette.

To each his own, but if I am enjoying a nice bit of peace and quiet on the bayou, and someone anchors next to me with some silly sound system that is annoying the heck out of me, I promise that I will have to test my boat in a tight turn around them, at maximum wake speed, over and over and over and over ......

Having been in the music business for quite awhile, I might also have to find out where they live, show up with a 30 KW genny and enough sound gear to melt their damn boat in the driveway!

I'll bring the 7,000 watt xenon stage followspots! Turn 2AM into high noon!


seriously though...everyones entilted to their music...I am not entilted to have to hear it...Enjoy your boat, enjoy your music..let me do the same..quietly..love the sound of the water slapping against the hull..THATS music to my ear (yes singular..I am deaf in one! lol)