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Marine Audio Update; Boat Sales on Upswing

Marine Audio Update; Boat Sales on Upswing

Amy Gilroy March 25, 2013 Comments Off

Boat season is just getting started, but some indicators bode well for marine audio this year. New power boat sales are starting to pick up for the first time since the recession, says the

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Boss Intros New Marine Receivers

Boss Intros New Marine Receivers

Lynn Shannon February 13, 2013 Comments Off

OXNARD, CA– Boss Audio Systems is introducing two new marine receivers, the MR1308UAB Bluetooth-enabled in-dash, single DIN Marine Digital Media AM/FM Receiver and the MR1306UA in-dash, single DIN Marine Digital Media AM/FM Receiver. Playback

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Clarion Intro’s Its Largest Marine Lineup

Clarion Intro’s Its Largest Marine Lineup

Amy Gilroy January 9, 2013 Comments Off

Clarion is introducing over a dozen marine products in 2013 including some of the first marine radios that link to a boat’s digital bus system (J1939). Until recently, boaters installed separate components for a

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Boss Marine Event Schedule

Lynn Shannon September 12, 2012 Comments Off

Oxnard, CA– Boss International Group said it posted triple digit sales gains this season in marine audio for its Boss Marine line. The company will attend numerous marine specific events for the remainder of

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First Head Unit from Wet Sounds

Amy Gilroy September 6, 2012 Comments Off

Wet Sounds, a maker of a marine hifi amps and speakers,  is developing its first marine radio, which will have some unique features suited to boaters. The head unit will ship at the end

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Boss Intro’s New Marine Audio Products

Lynn Shannon July 31, 2012 Comments Off

Oxnard, July 30, 2012 – Boss Audio (Boss International Group)  says it offers one of the most extensive application-specific  marine audio lines with 18 marine head units, five amplifiers, three subwoofers and a wide

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Polk Appoints Powersports Distributor

Lynn Shannon July 23, 2012 Comments Off

Elkhart, IN– ASA Electronics, an international manufacturer and supplier of premium audio and video electronics has been appointed the Powersports Industry’s exclusive OEM wholesale distributor in the US, Canada and Europe for Polk Audio. Other

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Rockford Ships New Marine Speakers

Amy Gilroy June 11, 2012 Comments Off

Rockford Fosgate is now shipping a  new marine audio system for wakeboard towers. The enclosed speaker system comes in a 6.5-inch, 4-Ohm 75-Watt (RMS) version and an 8-Inch, 4-Ohm 100-Watt  model. Both use marine

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Wet Sounds Teams with AE Distributing

Lynn Shannon May 10, 2012 Comments Off

Houston, TX – Wet Sounds, the designer and manufacturer of premium audio system components for boats and powersports vehicles has announced a product distribution agreement with AE Distributing, based in Van Nuys, CA. AE

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Rockford Ships Marine Amplifiers

Lynn Shannon April 25, 2012 Comments Off

Rockford announced it is now shipping a new line of marine audio amplifiers. The Class D models are built to marine grade specifications and include a marinized circuit board and chrome plated hardware. Models

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Marine Audio Shifts Course

Amy Gilroy April 24, 2012 Comments Off

Alpine, Clarion and other leading suppliers are examining a new trend in marine audio.  It’s the same trend that has overtaken car audio—namely OE integration with other electronics in the dash board. As boats 

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Clarion Appoints MITO Nat’l Marine Distributor

Lynn Shannon April 23, 2012 Comments Off

Clarion Corporation of America has appointed MITO Corporation as its national distributor for the marine market as of June 1. MITO, based in Elkhart, IN is a 12 volt aftermarket distributor that carries products

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Fusion Brings WiFi to Marine Audio

Amy Gilroy January 30, 2012 Comments Off

Fusion will offer in March the first marine audio radios that can be controlled by your phone so that boaters on deck can change stations on the radio down below. Fusions’ new 700 series

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Fusion Returns to Car Audio

Amy Gilroy January 12, 2012 Comments Off

Fusion is re-focusing on the U.S. car audio market after a few years of specializing mainly in marine audio. The company is debuting at CES, 3 new car radios  with “features you want, without

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Sony Intro’s First MirrorLink Aftermarket Car Radios in U.S.

Amy Gilroy January 10, 2012 Comments Off

Sony announced 4 new car radios on Monday including 2 models with MirrorLink (formerly known as Terminal Mode).  It lets the car radio screen literally mirror the display on your smartphone screen, and controls

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JL Audio to Show 42 New Products at CES

Lynn Shannon January 3, 2012 1

JL Audio announced it will unveil over 42 new products at the Consumer Electronics Show and that it plans to be “aggressive” in 2012. In it’s largest booth to date at CES, JL will

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JL Audio Voted a Favorite By Powerboat Magazine

Lynn Shannon October 28, 2011 Comments Off

MIRAMAR, FL—JL Audio received high honors recently from the readers of Powerboat magazine who voted the company a Favorite Stereo Manufacturer. The coveted Readers Choice Award is an honor only given to the top

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Sony Marine Radio Works w/ SiriusXM SXV100

Amy Gilroy October 18, 2011 Comments Off

Sony will deliver in January, the first marine audio receiver to work with the SiriusXM SXV100 tuner that eliminates a second adapter cable. The new CDX-M20 marine CD receiver is also MP3/WMA compatible with

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Rockford Intro’s Top Line Marine Deck

Amy Gilroy October 14, 2011 Comments Off

Rockford Fosgate will introduce next week, a new top of the line marine head unit—it’s first with several advanced technologies as well as a multizone/multisource feature, so a user can listen to Sirius in

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Dual Continues Management Shift

Amy Gilroy August 24, 2011 1

Dual Electronics is continuing to expand and reorganize its management team as the company adds new product categories such as marine AV, GPS and specialist car AV products, it said. The company began regrouping

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