[PUP] Toys, Stereos, etc. was PPM

[Ross Anderson]

Well, I sing and whistle a lot and am available for long passages!!
Everything on a vessel is compromise. God Bless - Ross - 10&2

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Mark <mark424x at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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