Marine Radios Review

Here are the final 3 steps of installing your marine stereo or CB Radio on your boat or pontoon…

Third: You will want to connect the speaker wires to the stereo quick connectors and feed them through the previously drilled holes in the console or dash. Wherever possible, leave the wires the same length to each speaker. This becomes more critical when the speakers are spread out in a wider pattern.

Fourth: Its time to place put the “self-sticking” plastic raceways in place. When you have decided a good place to run your raceways to the speaker locations, remove the sticky back on the raceway sections and press unit against the side (or under the top lip) to fasten in place. When completed, repeat this step for the other side of the boat or pontoon. Your wires can now be laid into the plastic channel and the plastic cover can be snapped in place to protect your wires and to give you a very neat completed wiring job.

Fifth: Now – mounting the Marine Speakers…

Since there are a lot of speakers out there, you must follow the directions for each individual style, but you will find most of them have simple clips with which to fasten your speaker wires in place. Speakers have a wide range of capabilities and I hope to address those items in the near future. In short, you get what you pay for in a speaker. It’s a combination, really, of the output capabilities of your marine radio and the wattage and ohm ratings of the speakers. Distortion will occur in the speaker sound quality if the speakers are under rated as compared to the marine radio or CB Radio on board.

Now turn on your tunes and begin a fun day on the water!