Marine Audio Query....

[NicoG]

Afternoon!

Mightn't be the right section, but as some clever individuals hang-out in here....

I am going to be installing ''some kind of system'' in my boat before she goes back in in a couple of months time, and have an idea of how I want to do it. Question is, is it feasible...?

As I will be using the iPod (other MP3 players are available) as the source the vast majority of the time, I didn't want to spend 2 or 3 hundred quid on a tuner/cd player which would effectively be redundant in actually playing music...

I have an Alpine 4 channel amp and 4x Alpine marine speakers and so my plan would be to wire-up a 3.5mm jack to a pair of RCAs which would be connnected directly to one of the amp's inputs, just like a pre-out would from a head unit...

Would this work? I appreciate that it would'nt be a 4-volt pre-out like a head-unit might be, but would the amp be able to turn this potentially lower voltage signal into a powerful signal to feed the speakers...?

I realise that unless I split the jack signal into 2 pair of RCAs I would only have 2 channels not 4, but in theory is this possible?

I was looking at something like this....

http://www.incarexpress.co.uk/catimages/marine/aux...

Many thanks in advance - Nico.

Edited by NicoG on Thursday 12th January 14:25

[cjs]

The link does not work however, what you want to do should be ok, The iPod should have enough gain from the headphone socket to power the amp, all you can do is try it.

If no good you'll need a pre-amp of some sort, in which case you may as well get a head unit with an aux in.

[NicoG]

Thanks for that - I think I have fixed the link....

I have an old head unit but I don't think it'll last 5 minutes! Hence the wish for a simplified system where the ''non-marine bits'' could be removed from the boat very easily...

Cheers

[Hoover.]

That's how my mate has wired into his boat 9wanted to spell yaught but it looks v wrong)..... just plug into iPod into connection..... music all round