Stereo upgrade

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Originally posted by PascalG

Kurt, I agree... But most guests get out there to party and sometimes they like their music loud!

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Roger that. Break. :-)
 
RWS is it possible that any speakers mounted in a horizontal plane could trap moisture from condensation either above or below the speaker assembly causing premature failure? How did the last set of speakers fail? I have always seen marine or outdoor speakers mounted in a verticle plane so the moisture runs off of them.
I'm not sticking up for Poly Planar but trying to figure out what is happening?
Bill
 
+1 for the FUSION units. I installed one on the bridge so that the salon and bridge could either be used separately or be used together. At times we have music "conflicts" on-board such as when the girls want to be in the salon and "talk" and the guys are on the bridge with loud tunes. The FUSION allows the my iPod with 13,000 songs to be placed inside and now have access to all the songs and playlists from the FUSION control. The control is a little more clunky than the iPod but it works great once you get used to it.
 
I have a ms-ra200 by fusion. Great unit. We also have Sirius hooked up to it. We listen to music on it mostly as back ground music.
 
We ve been using this for the past few days, it belongs to mario:

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It is great but I d like something permanently mounted, will be looking into fusion later on this week when I have more time
 
Uh guys, he was talking about speakers and an amp. In my opinion Fusion is unproven on speakers; I would ASSUME their amp is pretty good. The Kenwood he has now is a perfectly fine unit. Put some good speakers and a decent amp in there and see if it fits the bill (and I will bet that it does) before going off on the electronics deep end and spending valuable diesel fuel money. You know what's driving my "meh?" Poly Planars up on the flying bridge? An el cheapo Jensen the PO put in there. For me, an audio electronics guy for 40 years and counting, that's working out just fine. I can buy anything I want at distributor cost or manufacturer "accomodation cost" and upgrading the sound system is WAY down the The List. The distributed system for the rest of the boat, which I rarely use, has a nice Denon receiver (my addition) and some ADS and Polk speakers that came with the boat. Also just fine for cocktail hour.
 
I am running one internal amplifier speaker assembly I picked up from Radio Shack a few years ago on sale it is made by MEMOREX (model#MiHT3202) it is a 32" long modern looking all black cabinet. It has features I don't need like an I-POD docking station, S video output, DVD audio in/out and TV output standard audio. The negative it runs on AC power only (something rare in my boat) it has a sub woofer in addition to mids and piezo tweeters with built in 120 watt amplifiers it is not water resistant. It really sounds fantastic on the 3rd audio control channel of the FUSION. It also has a surround sound mode and equalizer I use the equalizer on the FUSION only. It fits and looks fantastic under the starboard side salon cabinets (which are all done in custom aluminum black type laminent. I had all the bulkhead doors and cabinets doors with the exception of the galley & head redone with this black low gloss matte black finish laminent when I 1st purchased the boat.
Bill
 
I have gone the expensive route before but this time I went with Pyle speakers with a fusion head unit and a 800 amp amplifier. I went with 8" and 6x9 speakers aided with a 12" sub and can tell you I think it sounds every bit as good if not better than my clarion speakers I had before. Pyle speakers a cheap on ebay and I figured if they fail it is little money to replace them. I do think that more speakers to spread the sound is the way to go Pascal. If you are around this weekend and you want to see what I did or anytime, you can check it out at 2-4, the radio is on the bridge.

Cor
 
With the FUSION amplifiers rated at 2 ohms it's fairly easy to get 4 speakers per channel or as you say multiple speakers.
I still have additional speakers to add to my bridge/ upper helm. As I mentioned before I like to keep most of the noise in the boat but the thud from the base seems to tranmit a distance over the water.
Bill
 
get wireless headphones for guests and they can blast away.
 
+1 on Poly-Planer....tried them all at one time or another with 5 different boats and found these tops!!
- on the Fusion, at least the head unit that has built in IPOD dock. Unit hangs up continuously when using IPOD. Have seen many other blogs with units having same problem. Unfortunatley, Fusion would do nothing since I did return in 30days after purchase, regardless of stated warranty.
 
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Originally posted by bradt

+1 on Poly-Planer....tried them all at one time or another with 5 different boats and found these tops!!
- on the Fusion, at least the head unit that has built in IPOD dock. Unit hangs up continuously when using IPOD. Have seen many other blogs with units having same problem. Unfortunatley, Fusion would do nothing since I did return in 30days after purchase, regardless of stated warranty.

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I have not seen this reported on any of the other Blogs about the IP700 Fusion. Can you elaborate when you say hang up what do you mean? Loss of communication between the IP-700 and the I-Pod? I rarely use the I-Pod docking station but I will give it a workout once I understand your problem better. My primary use is streaming audio, the USB storage device, the built in reciever and using my Garmin GXM-51 on SIRIUS. Only when my son's come down does the I-Pod docking get used (rarely).
As much as AM radio is not fidelity based it has the best AM reciever I have used on a boat.
Bill
 
FWIW - We constantly use a Fusion head unit with 3 different i-pods all the time. The boat its installed in is also open and very prone to fast starts, stops and 'agressive' manuevering and we have had no issues with the ipod docked unit. We also have a wired Fusion remote and that has experienced no issues as well. We have 2 Fusion speakers down low and 2 Bazooka tubbies on a tower and teh qua;lity and poer is quite respectfull - you can hear it pretty well while skiing behind the boat.

Hope this helps
 
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