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Location: north central wisconsin | Good thread!! Marine or not, there is not a truly waterproof unit. Further, there really isn't a marine head unit with the features of a non marine unit half the price. Now, if your unit will be on the console and out in the elements I'd highly recomend one of the marine styles as Nelson recomended. However, if you have room, and an extra $30.00, pick up a water-tight head unit case. Your remote will still read through the clear case, and once closed, is water tight.
As far as head units go, there are a ton of really great ones these days. I normally run Eclipse, but realized that there were other units that offered more bang for my buck. Pioneer used to make some great equipment, then crappy components(90's). Now, they have come full circle and are making some really nice units again. Their price line and features are tough to beat right now, as far as head units go. I picked up a Premier DEH-P390MP at a local car stereo shop, and absolutely love the thing! The remote is waterproof, tiny, and works from most anywhere in the boat. It also allows for my Sirius radio to be broadcast right through the head unit, showing song, artist, genre, etc on the screen. It will also play your MP3's, and will synch or hook up to your PMD(ipod, Zune, mp3 etc).
For speakers, again, in the marine dept. you are paying for a white speaker with stainless or aluminum screws. You still should not get the cone of a speaker drenched, but some can handle alot of water. I decided to go with JL audio coaxial 6.5" up front, and JL 6x9's in the back, both sets built into custom boxes for my rig as I didn't want to cut into my side tanks etc. Again, if good sound is what you are after, run standard car audio speakers. You'll save $$, and get the best sound. The JL line I run, along with many others have rubber seals instead of foam(stay away from foam), just like the marine jobs.
That said, what I have is far from a 'rocking' system. I had to cut alot of corners in building the speaker boxes to fit them where I wanted to, and opted to stay away from amps and subs. It sounds fine for what I use it for, besides, I cannot stand the wake boarder boats that go by with crappy bass pumping into my rig. When I want to listen to tunes, I don't want the other boats around me to have to listen to them too.
Edited by Reef Hawg 2/28/2008 5:14 PM
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