Two years ago, John Salafia installed a two-speaker sound system on his new 22-foot Panga, but when one of the speakers regularly gave him problems, he decided to replace and upgrade the whole package. He switched brands and because he wanted two additional speakers in the bow of the boat, he selected Clarion’s new NMEA 2000-certified CMM-30 marine source unit to drive four Clarion CMSP-771RGB-SWG speakers.
The CMM-30 is an IP66-rated weatherproof marine source unit with a 3-inch full-color LCD display. It’s SiriusXM-ready, has a digital AM/FM tuner with built-in NOAA weather radio, Bluetooth audio streaming, a USB 2.0 input for playback from a USB storage device, an analog auxiliary input, an onboard amplifier capable of powering speakers to two main zones, eight channels of preamp outputs and subwoofer functionality. NMEA 2000 certified, it has multifunction display control functionality and is compatible with
