[PUP] Toys, Stereos, etc. was PPM

[Mark]

Alan makes a great point, we often talk about AIS, Radar, inverters, stabilizers, etc.  But that's not life, not for me anyway.  Part of a PPM should include the things that we enjoy as part of our lives.  

What "toys" do you really want to have for long term liveaboard/cruising?

For me, it would be a great audio system.  I was a performing musician as a youngster and now am a recovered audiophile, so don't need vacuum tubes and an engineered sound room, but bose sound cubes just aren't real music (to me anyway).  The physics of sound requires at least a moderate sized set of speakers, especially for the mid-bass and below.  I'm not sure if power is so much as issue as the space, size, and mounting of speakers.  

Has anyone seen/heard anything good out there on a cruising boat?  
Any chance of getting a realistic performance from Bernstein, Ella Fitzgerald, or Tower or Power on my boat ;-)  (yes, I can see the eyes rolling out there, and no headphones just don't cut it).


--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Alan Wagner <Wagner.Florida at verizon.net> wrote:
> I confess that I want a TV in each stateroom and lots of
> speakers to play high quality, loud music whenever I wanted to throughout
> the boat.  No one needs air conditioning, flat screens, and a great sound
> system, but I want the boat to be a home, not just a way to get across the
> Atlantic.