[Rhodes22-list] Galley Stereo Speaker Installation

[Michael D. Weisner]

David,

They look fine, as long as there is nothing in the cabinets.  We have wire 
frame shelving and supplies in there that would probably block the sound.

We located "Poly-Planar" speakers (Styrofoam, waterproof) both inside the 
cabin and in the cockpit.  The cabin speakers are rectangular style and 
located in the port side vertical portion of the storage locker, under the 
settee, facing the starboard galley.  The cockpit speakers are 8" round 
style located in the laz bulkhead, under the seats, facing forward.  Both 
give really good sound coverage, even with the beds in place without 
blasting the neighbors.

There have been many other locations.  I think that Rummy placed speakers 
high in the cabin on the starboard side, above the galley.  He also used 
speakers in the laz bulkhead, under the seats for the cockpit.

Whatever works is the best solution.

Mike
s/v Shanghaid'd Summer ('81)
       Nissequogue River, NY

From: "David Culp"  Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:10 PM
> Someone may have already done this before so I'm just throwing this out
> there as a one man's solution:
> I had an old pair of stereo speakers left over from my remodel job lying
> around the garage.  They have articulating mounting brackets which 
> probably
> cost as much as the speakers did and I wanted to put them to some use.  So 
> I
> thought... Wouldn't it be nice to have some interior speakers in the boat 
> to
> go along with my cockpit speakers.  My Sony CDX CD has 4 channels (front 
> and
> rear) so the plan was to use the fader control to adjust the sound level
> between the sets or shutoff the cockpit speakers and direct all the sound 
> to
> the inside set when you need to be quiet like at a crowded anchorage or 
> slip
> at night.
> The Rhodes cabin is very ergonomically efficient and try as I might, I 
> just
> couldn't figure out a good place to mount speakers in the cabin that was
> going to look good, be out of the way and sound good too.  There probably 
> is
> a good place for the right type of speakers, but I don't have them. 
> Anyway,
> it dawned on me that the two sliding doors on the galley cabinet meet in 
> the
> middle and there is enough space left for speakers to project sound into 
> the
> cabin from the sides.
>
> With articulating mounts, I was able to mount on the cabinet walls and 
> then
> turn the speakers outward 90 degrees.  You will see in the photos that the
> left speaker is mounted a little lower then the right in order to clear 
> the
> sink and the right is up and out of the way of the storage area.  You lose 
> a
> little storage space but not much and it sounds really good.
>
> To test it, I turned it up to a level a little higher then what you 
> probably
> would need at night in the cabin; dropped the pop-top, installed the hatch
> cover and then walked around on the adjacent slips just to see what the
> noise level was.  You could hear it faintly, but I don't think it would
> disturb anyone.  Whether or not the sound is traveling through the water 
> and
> you could hear it through the hull of another boat is another question.
>
> It was fairly easy to install.  Just make sure your mounting screws are
> large enough to support the weight and short enough not to come through 
> the
> other side of the wall into the head.  On the right side, I just used one 
> of
> the screws already present holding the cooler in position and then added 
> one
> making sure that it didn't penetrate the cooler lining.
>
> Here's a link to the pictures:  http://r22spkrs.hsbtx.net
>
> David
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