best speakers

[DaveR]

anybody have any suggestions on good speakers ?? Looking for , good sound , small, maybe movable.......figure I'll mount 'em somewhere inside -bulkheads and keel trunk by the head?? and mount the stereo above the electronics panel.

Loud music can only add to the fun when it's really blowin' and the spinnaker halyard's fouled on the drop! Oh Yea!

[Dale Eager]

I installed an Alpine CD/MP3 radio about two years ago. I cut a slot in the bulkhead over the starboard quarterberth so that the head unit fit in the shelf above the electrical panel. I used a PolyPlanar water resistant cover (about $20) to mount the head unit. It is very sturdy and protects the faceplate from physical damage as well as any splash. I highly recommend it. For two seasons, I used Bose 101 outdoor speakers loose so they could be moved as well as removed for racing. But I really missed the stereo back at the slip at a regagatta last summer so I decided to mount some permanent speakers. This fall, I mounted two six inch JBL Marine speakers in back of the cockpit just above the lazarette seats. (Credit B. Fleck for doing this first and finding the correct location, I hate cutting holes in my boat!). IMHO this is the only way to go. No more loose wires, and the sound is much better. Total cost was about $80 so I figure I can replace them every couple of years if they don't last. I liked the sound so well that I added a second pair of 6X9" JBLs inside.

[Tom Elsen]

Just a suggestion: Watch where you mount those things....especially if you have any Any ANY instruments anywhere in the vicinity.

The boat and the owner shall remain nameless, but I have personally witnessed a crew desperately trying to figure out why the boat was tacking through 140 degrees until they discovered the speakers newly mounted inside the doghouse on the roof, about two feet from the compasses. Yes, that's one speaker behind each compass. True story.