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 Post subject: Re: music on board
PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:02 pm 
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NOHUHU wrote:
Sometimes this is true, sometimes not. It could depend on the conditions, your orientation to the wind and what you are playing! :lol:

These are personal observations - not intended as advice or criticism:


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...as was also my own tilt on this thread. We all go out to the Sea for our own reasons...
Yet my previous home was a block away from a major ambulance barn in Vancouver, Canada. The sirens went 24/7. My need to simply cancel that noise and any other 'traffic' made me welcome the 2 days a week I could find peace on my Sailboat to keep my sanity.
To truly sense where you are on the ocean, it is in the small dbs.

When it is a giant roar, it already too late as you are picked up by the surf line and tossed ashore as flotsam.

May it always be here or elsewhere that we as Mariners, could always listen and cancel out the background noise...

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 Post subject: Re: music on board
PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:26 pm 
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Madwand wrote:
I'm not looking for a concert on the water, just some tunes. I'm ok with the Jap standards. I'm going to be keeping it in a hatch anyway. Just wanted the waterproof cause the last time I took a radio on the water, I capsized and it sank to the bottom.

My girlfriend who will be going with me wants the music on board as well.


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You have every reason to do as you wish. That takes Freedom to a whole new level. But remember, we live in a highly material world. Sound as we know it today is a highly evolved process to push the limits beyond the envelope of what our last generation accepted as a standard.
All this stuff comes at a compromise (it seems):
On a vessel that cannot produce it's own power, you are limited in your abilty to project volume. Ok if your girlfriend wants tunes also, then get a splitter and make sure that you have enough wattage for both of you to be happy (or your choice of tunes)
If you each want your own choice, then your answer is even simpler, just get two waterproof MP3 players in their own waterproof cases.
The Compromise?
You loose connection in a water world where you BOTH need your ears as well as your sight (and com levels with each other) to get the maximum level of connection with your surroundings.

However, your experience level may differ than my own...

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 Post subject: Re: music on board
PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:51 pm 
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No, we just both want to hear some music while we sail. No one will hear us on a 22 mile diameter lake surrounded by urban clutter.

If it's howling hard enough that we can't hear the music at a modest level, we won't be playing it anyway. I'm not sure why you think this needs to be some freedom I have to listen to music. I'm not bothering anyone. I don't complain when the jetskis and cigarette boats go screaming by. But I'm really sorry if I'm somehow disturbing them with my hits from the 80s.


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 Post subject: Re: music on board
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:17 am 
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Madwand

I truly think you miss my point here.

If you need a screaming gale to get your attention, then all that type I sent you is missed.
I reaffirmed your ability to do as you wish, that is true FREEDOM (as you are not offending anyone else to do exactly the same as in your intent).

Why?

'Cause you can!!

Enough said

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 Post subject: Re: music on board
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:23 am 
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Yes, I see. I was taking a different meaning of the word freedom. You were referring to the sacrificed quality of the music, as well. I don't mind the quality being slow, as long as I can still have what I need. Like I said, with all the roaring engines, you can't hear much anyway.


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 Post subject: Re: music on board
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:20 am 
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Sheeeesh, what's wrong with sitting up on the rear cross bar with a piano accordion and belting out a few sea shanties while you steer with your left foot...

It would keep pirates away. They never mess with mad people :D

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 Post subject: Re: music on board
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:38 pm 
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Hmm let's see...
Here's the Pelican box that could serve your needs:

perhaps the:

http://www.officialpelicanstore.com/pro ... ts_id=1630

might work, room enough for a Piany Squeezebox and possible a broken down AK-47 to beat down the 'fans'...
errr, I mean Pirates...what was I thinking? :lol:

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