How about an MP3 player with a lot of storage (is that what a Rio Riot is?)
and an automotive power amp driving real speakers of your choice? You can
get all the power your battery/genset will support.

Don

"TORMAC53" wrote in message
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I have a 53' sailboat and want to be able to take my music collection with
me.
I would like to sort through songs by artist, type of music etc. I usually
use
car components as the units are mounted below decks.
I have read about the Rio Riots, but they use powered speakers and they
rarely
sound good.
We like to have good quality sound in the center cockpit as well as a
dance
level volume when appropriate. If I have dedicate a seperate computer to
this I
would but I would keep it apart from navigation as I like redundancy and
independant systems for important items. Life has a sound track if you
listen
close enough.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks
Bob Glennon