Hi Everyone. I have a 20 foot boat, i want to get some speakers for my boat to just play music off my iPhone. I do not want to get a whole receiver/cd player unit, just a pair of speakers and have a wire that I can plug my iPhone into. I am having a hard time finding a simple system/set up for this. I did see one kit by Kicker that was $400...any suggestions?
I rebuilt my boat from the ground up over the last few years and I did a lot of research on audio, but I didn't see anything like what you're asking for.
You need to stick with marine audio, especially if you're near saltwater. Marine audio's electronics are built to resist corrosion. Many of the internals are epoxy covered. Secondly, inexpensive marine audio is suspect. I went through two Dual and one Boss unit and had to take them back because two didn't work at all and the other had a defect. I went to West Marine to check out the selection and came away completely unimpressed with anything below $400. I finally decided to spend the extra money on
this Clarion. It works beautifully. The black box is mounted in the cabin and I use the commander like a wired remote that's mounted near my driver's seat with Clarion's removable gimble. I haven't tried it, but you're supposed to be able to hook your iPod (not sure about iPhone) to the black box and control it through the remote Commander. I paired it with these
Polk speakers. I'm not recommending this for you. Just saying you're probably going to have to spend the money for something that works.