Worth paying for a marine specific radio?

[ShadowWalker]

Just wondering if you guys have found it worth it to buy Marine specific receivers? If I put a car receiver in one of those marine housings do you think I'd be good? I have a Tri-hull and it really is a pretty dry ride even in fairly rough water.

The reason I'm asking is I am going one of two routes. I have a car receiver we got free, but we found out that the Aux input doesn't work, which means no ipod. I could just flat out buy a new receiver with an Aux in for the boat.

OR, I have been thinking about putting a new HD receiver in my truck, and could take the pioneer out of there and put it in the boat which has a front AUX in that works.

Or I could just suck it up and use CD's :roll:

 

[Oddagus]

I used a car type receiver in a center console boat for about 5 years and it did fine. Not in an enclosure , just mounted in the console. I did use the Poly Planer Marine speakers. Everything worked fine.

 

[Captain Ahab]

Standard car receiver will work - but may rust out pretty fast. I used them for years - i would pull them from junk cars

free is good!

 

[ShadowWalker]

Thanks, Like I said, if I'm buying a new receiver I'd be putting the new one in the truck and moving the current one to the boat. The speakers I'm using are going to be outdoor box style speakers I think, because it will be easier to mount them up front on the deck where we will be shooting from all night.

I'm still trying to decide what to do about mounting. My console is kind of weird in the first place. I suppose I need to get out the pad of paper and brainstorm.

 

[dyeguy1212]

Not exactly on topic, but I really suggest not getting an HD receiver that is built in, and get one that is after market. My JVC and a few other models that have it built in get really annoying, because when the HD comes in and out, there is a sound overlap. So you'll listen to a part in HD, go into a valley, and the same part will restart. And if you go to an HD2 channel, when the signal fades, it completely turns off the sound, as opposed to getting a little staticy.

 

[danmyersmn]

Without question use marine speakers. For the radio if you have it already use what you have. A marine radio will fill the same 1din space as a car radio so you can swap in a marine radio of a car radio ever fails. I am going with a car radio and marine cover for mine. Radio is free, I will use it for FM/AM only.