Firstly hello - I'm new here, but been an active member at a bunch of other forums, of cars, boats amongst other things.
I did do a search to see if there is anything yacht related and didn't find anything - though that might reflect poorly on my search skills.
I'm specifying a configuration for a sail boat that I have under construction, and I'm not getting very far to the complete answer to my requirements with the electronics firm I'm dealing with thus far in that they're sticking resolutely to a simple BOSE based single special speaker type config or a car hifi w/ multiple speakers playing stereo.
My aim is a 5.1 dolby digital system in the saloon for movies, plus 4 speaker stereo in the cockpit for music.
I will have a Mac as my source for all music and movies - so as to avoid having the disks on board, my library is already scanned onto a large HD. I have a Samsung LED monitor specified that is slim and low power consumption, and slides out of a cabinet so it is hidden away under sail. I can specify a variety of speakers, but would probably like to use B&W custom speakers inside (since they designed for high humidity environments already) and marine speakers outside. Similarly I can specify 2 12V car amplifiers a 5 channel to do the saloon and a 4 channel to handle music played outside in the cockpit.
The bit I'm missing is a Dolby digital/DTS processor to take a HDMI or an optical or a co-ax digital signal to process the surround sound.
I don't really have the space to fit a regular receiver and don't need all the bells and whistles that come with one either.
I have to imagine there might be a car audio product that might do something like this, but I haven't found one. There seem to be in dash dvd players but they don't seem to offer an external digital input as far as I can tell. Obviously a 12V based solution would be better as I can then run the audio side both in the saloon and the cockpit without running the inverter (which wastes power). I'd consider a simple small form factor amp/processor in a box as the driver if that's a good fit, but it would need to work on 220V if its not 12V as the boat is specified to be 220.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide! I'm posting similarly on my yacht forums
I did do a search to see if there is anything yacht related and didn't find anything - though that might reflect poorly on my search skills.
I'm specifying a configuration for a sail boat that I have under construction, and I'm not getting very far to the complete answer to my requirements with the electronics firm I'm dealing with thus far in that they're sticking resolutely to a simple BOSE based single special speaker type config or a car hifi w/ multiple speakers playing stereo.
My aim is a 5.1 dolby digital system in the saloon for movies, plus 4 speaker stereo in the cockpit for music.
I will have a Mac as my source for all music and movies - so as to avoid having the disks on board, my library is already scanned onto a large HD. I have a Samsung LED monitor specified that is slim and low power consumption, and slides out of a cabinet so it is hidden away under sail. I can specify a variety of speakers, but would probably like to use B&W custom speakers inside (since they designed for high humidity environments already) and marine speakers outside. Similarly I can specify 2 12V car amplifiers a 5 channel to do the saloon and a 4 channel to handle music played outside in the cockpit.
The bit I'm missing is a Dolby digital/DTS processor to take a HDMI or an optical or a co-ax digital signal to process the surround sound.
I don't really have the space to fit a regular receiver and don't need all the bells and whistles that come with one either.
I have to imagine there might be a car audio product that might do something like this, but I haven't found one. There seem to be in dash dvd players but they don't seem to offer an external digital input as far as I can tell. Obviously a 12V based solution would be better as I can then run the audio side both in the saloon and the cockpit without running the inverter (which wastes power). I'd consider a simple small form factor amp/processor in a box as the driver if that's a good fit, but it would need to work on 220V if its not 12V as the boat is specified to be 220.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide! I'm posting similarly on my yacht forums