Sony radio with cd player

[beneteau_305_553]

I have recently purchased a sony c 3180 radio with cd player from ebay for my boat:

http://www.stores.ebay.co.uk/alcestercaraudio/plistings/list/all/dept0/page2.html?col=2&dir=-1

Its a great radio, excellent sound quallity and it does have LW as well as MW and FM. for £60 is good value IMHO.





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[sailorman]

why not fit a "micro" system cheap as chips, available in 12v. J.V.C AWIA to name 2
u also get to have a remote control

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[Joe_Cole]

Thanks Richard. It looks just what I've been looking for!

Joe

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[steve_cronin]

We had an Aiwa micro on the last boat. I had quite a job to get all three units fitted and secured Ok but eventually all was satisfactory. As you say the remote is a good feature especially when you want to crank up the volume of Die Valkerie as you overhaul another yacht in the Solent! However (on the AIWA) once you switch off the master switch, the presets de-tune.

We have the standard Panasonic car radio on the Bavaria but it's output and AM selectivity is superior. We don't need LW in the med. but SW would be a bonus. Clarion and Kenwood units have this but at a premium. I'm installing a SSB receiver this winter for World Service and Weatherfax.

Steve Cronin

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[Guest]

Cheap and cheerful ....

Dixons, Curry's, Argos ....... 39.99 ...... battery or mains .... with a couple of wires suitably fixed in place can power from domestic system.

Another avenue is to fit the old favourite - the car radio !! I had one for years in previous boats - despite some reports they lasted well. And the best are those with manual tuning pointer scales ... then you are not looking at re-tuning memorys all the time



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[beneteau_305_553]

I tried an AIWA Micro from home but I find the Sony is much better.

The reception seems much better so you pick up more stations on both AM and FM and the sound quality is better, 4 chanels at 10 W RMS. (I believe the AIWA is 2 x 5 W)

The built in cd drive works well and if you connect it properly the stations are always stored in memory.

No remote control though so take your pick



<hr width=100% size=1>Richard

 

[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

Doesn't the CD skip all the time, car CD players are designed to take the odd jolt, some have memories to ride these out.

Do you find it gives problems at sea?

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[BrendanS]

Re: Music whilst bouncing around

mp3 or something similar that stores music on a solid medium don't suffer from being jolted

Anything with moving parts suffers, expecially CD's when in a chop, or hitting big waves (in my experience anyway)

So, the solution is to use a normal FM radio on the boat, then plug a FM transmitter into you personal mp3 player, tune in your radio to your personal radio station, and enjoy music whilst hitting the biggest waves. You can search for gadgets like this on the internet, but you can see one example <A target="_blank" HREF=https://www.myirock.com/myirock/shopping/index.jsp?product_id=&store_id=101&afl_id=-1&dist_id=-1&productID=&quantity=1&funcID=9901&department_current=40&search_product_name=>here</A>

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[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

Re: Music whilst bouncing around

To be fair I have a nice solution aboard. When dixons put out the first Goodmans car CD for less than a hundred quid, 99.99, I bought one for the car. Fine little front loading unit. It has something that most car CD players do not and that is a line in, this means I plug in our personal mp3 player (CD) into it, this has a 10 second jolt memory.

The downside of this car stereo is that it does not have LW, bloody anoying that, the unit I have in the car now (philips) has short wave, but no line in, but it might get removed and fitted to the boat if I sell the car.

My other thoughts on midi units is power consumption, car stereos tend to be quite efficient, a manufacturer building a generally mains power HiFi is not going to spend extra to make it more efficient are they?

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[Guest]

Power efficiency ...

Looking at various and also at the cheapie I bought .... 29.99 at Argos ..... it is Dry-cell or mains powered. The Dry-cell count is 12V.

Therefore I argue that power wise - I expect it to be sensible as it is designed to be carried around working off batterys.

It has CD, MW, FM ...... which for most is enough. OK I think that LW is a good idea for the ol' BBC Shipping Forecast etc. But I yhink that it is possible to get one with .... just a matter of looking.


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