I am planning on installing two outside flush mounted stereo speakers to my 340 cockpit area. Any sugestions as to the best location before I start making holes?
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Miles
Mine are...
On either side of the pedestal on my 340. Below the foldup table (but not covered by it). Seems to work pretty well. If they are very small you might be able to get them on the arch somehow. Have fun cutting holes in your boat ;.)
On either side of the pedestal on my 340. Below the foldup table (but not covered by it). Seems to work pretty well. If they are very small you might be able to get them on the arch somehow. Have fun cutting holes in your boat ;.)
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Tim Bowers
Speakers
I had the same dilemma last year. I have a 2000 H340 with the stainless arch and wanted to add cockpit speakers. There are very few places to put flush mounted speakers in the cockpit. The only flat spot that I found was the helm station console below the table leaves, not a real good location. I had a H29.5 and located the speakers there, in order for the helmsman and anyone seated in the stern-perch seats to hear the music it had to be turned up fairly loud. Unfortunately anyone sitting in the cockpit, near the companionway got blasted, so I opted not to use that location on our H340. In the end I chose not to use flush mounted speakers. I mounted a pair of Poly-Plannar MA-840 subcompact box speakers on each side of the instrument hood. The MA-840's have low magnetic field and do not interfere with the depth, speed or wind instruments. While the MA-840's are small, they do have rather good sound. They surely don't sound as good as my home stereo but for the way I use them, they sound fine and I don't have to worry about blasting anybody out, because they are aimed towards the stern. The installiation was rather easy since I was able to remove the plastic instrument mounting board and back the mounting hardware with large washers after drilling holes in the fiberglass. To me its a clean installiation and the speakers don't interfere with anything. Good luck!
I had the same dilemma last year. I have a 2000 H340 with the stainless arch and wanted to add cockpit speakers. There are very few places to put flush mounted speakers in the cockpit. The only flat spot that I found was the helm station console below the table leaves, not a real good location. I had a H29.5 and located the speakers there, in order for the helmsman and anyone seated in the stern-perch seats to hear the music it had to be turned up fairly loud. Unfortunately anyone sitting in the cockpit, near the companionway got blasted, so I opted not to use that location on our H340. In the end I chose not to use flush mounted speakers. I mounted a pair of Poly-Plannar MA-840 subcompact box speakers on each side of the instrument hood. The MA-840's have low magnetic field and do not interfere with the depth, speed or wind instruments. While the MA-840's are small, they do have rather good sound. They surely don't sound as good as my home stereo but for the way I use them, they sound fine and I don't have to worry about blasting anybody out, because they are aimed towards the stern. The installiation was rather easy since I was able to remove the plastic instrument mounting board and back the mounting hardware with large washers after drilling holes in the fiberglass. To me its a clean installiation and the speakers don't interfere with anything. Good luck!
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Bruce Grant
If you want to see what I did on my 320.....
Take a look in the Photo forum, I show how I installed my stereo including external speakers (Bose 131's). Hope it helps. Regards. Bruce Neon Moon
Take a look in the Photo forum, I show how I installed my stereo including external speakers (Bose 131's). Hope it helps. Regards. Bruce Neon Moon
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Joel langdon
Cockpit speakers
Nichole- do you have the fiberglass of stainless arch? Mine is fiberglass...speakers flush mount perfectly, opposing each other in the access ports on the inside of the arch. If you have the fiberglass arch and need help, holler and I can help you.
Nichole- do you have the fiberglass of stainless arch? Mine is fiberglass...speakers flush mount perfectly, opposing each other in the access ports on the inside of the arch. If you have the fiberglass arch and need help, holler and I can help you.
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Frank Arndorfer
factory speakers
I had the same dilema and settled for the standard Hunter speaker/light pod supplied as an option on the H380. Ordered directly from Hunter and it fits the H340 perfectly. The stainless arch centers are exactly the same on the two boats (mine is a 2001 model). Ordered through my dealer from Hunte, the cost was about $350.00 and the pod comes completely assembled with two Seaworthy speakers, volume control, and a convenient overhead light, completely wired. The only real work was removing the arch to drill a 1/2" access hole in the coaming to run the wires through. The harness runs completely through the arch and it's also necessary to drill a 1/2" hole in oneof the arch tube overhead to run the wires. Don't know why Hunter doesn't offer this as an option on the 340.
I had the same dilema and settled for the standard Hunter speaker/light pod supplied as an option on the H380. Ordered directly from Hunter and it fits the H340 perfectly. The stainless arch centers are exactly the same on the two boats (mine is a 2001 model). Ordered through my dealer from Hunte, the cost was about $350.00 and the pod comes completely assembled with two Seaworthy speakers, volume control, and a convenient overhead light, completely wired. The only real work was removing the arch to drill a 1/2" access hole in the coaming to run the wires through. The harness runs completely through the arch and it's also necessary to drill a 1/2" hole in oneof the arch tube overhead to run the wires. Don't know why Hunter doesn't offer this as an option on the 340.
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Stuart
arch speakers are great
we installed speakers in the fiberglass arch of our 340, along with a control to reduce power/sound to the speakers. Works great1
we installed speakers in the fiberglass arch of our 340, along with a control to reduce power/sound to the speakers. Works great1
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