I enjoy music. Combining tunes and water make them both better. Their are times when just the water against the hull is all that is needed but most sails and BBQs can be enhanced with music. I have installed a CD player with two sets of speakers and a sub on our boat. I am interested in how others have integrated music into their boating and pictures of creative installations.
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This is my installation
Means I can operate with remote from outside. Took a while to build but I think worth the effort!
Means I can operate with remote from outside. Took a while to build but I think worth the effort!
My remote works from the cockpit too.
Here is a shot of the DVD/tuner. It has 5-1 sound. The center speaker is behind the TV and the 8 inch sub woofer is under the dinet table. It rocks.
Here is a shot of the DVD/tuner. It has 5-1 sound. The center speaker is behind the TV and the 8 inch sub woofer is under the dinet table. It rocks.
Here's a look at the rear speakers.
The little black square hides one of the speakers. There are 4 of them.
The little black square hides one of the speakers. There are 4 of them.
XM is king
As a musician I get bored pretty quickly of hearing the same tunes over and over. XM solved some of that. It's an easy installation and satellite ready receivers are the norm nowadays. We tried Sirius for a few months and couldn't stand it. DJ's were to yakky. Commercial broadcast FM is out of the question. We had several hundred CD's onboard but tired of hunting down a selection only to have to change it after an hour or so. Changers were too clunky and limiting. I downloaded the Musicmatch Jukebox off the web (it's free) onto my laptop which is secured at the navstation. Using Musicmatch I converted all the CD's into MP-3 files. Now I can drag and drop playlists hundreds of songs long that can be organized and accessed in seconds. $50 in cabling allows the laptop to play through the boat's sound system. It's awesome. I have thousands of titles I can search, sort by genre, title, artist or album. I can download titles from the web (yes, I pay for my tunes) and enjoy infinite flexibilty. Some day I'll have a system that sounds as good as Fred's but in the meantime we listen to what we want, when we want.
As a musician I get bored pretty quickly of hearing the same tunes over and over. XM solved some of that. It's an easy installation and satellite ready receivers are the norm nowadays. We tried Sirius for a few months and couldn't stand it. DJ's were to yakky. Commercial broadcast FM is out of the question. We had several hundred CD's onboard but tired of hunting down a selection only to have to change it after an hour or so. Changers were too clunky and limiting. I downloaded the Musicmatch Jukebox off the web (it's free) onto my laptop which is secured at the navstation. Using Musicmatch I converted all the CD's into MP-3 files. Now I can drag and drop playlists hundreds of songs long that can be organized and accessed in seconds. $50 in cabling allows the laptop to play through the boat's sound system. It's awesome. I have thousands of titles I can search, sort by genre, title, artist or album. I can download titles from the web (yes, I pay for my tunes) and enjoy infinite flexibilty. Some day I'll have a system that sounds as good as Fred's but in the meantime we listen to what we want, when we want.
Rick has the best way
of music lovers can do with today's high power PC and internet service. The future is already here to be taken.
of music lovers can do with today's high power PC and internet service. The future is already here to be taken.
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