Waves For Days
Ever Seen A Bass Wake?
Polk Audio is often asked if its '07 Correct Craft Super Air Nautique Team 220 Edition demo boat is sea-worthy. We don't like to answer a question with a question, but we just have to: Is Britney Spears crazy? The answers are one in the same. (And if you don't believe us, just check out these photos of the boat.).Oh Captain, My Captain
The captain of the install, so to speak, is a Clarion Marine Audio head unit, complete with video iPod/DVD auxiliary input. Sweetening the sound is an Audio Control EQS 6-channel processor with line driver. Originally, a pair of Polk Audio Momo-series MMC650 coaxials supplied sound for the bow. This was beefed up to a set of Polk Audio Momo MMC6500 components, with an extra set added for good measure.
Tower Of Power
The wakeboard tower, the highest point on the boat and the ideal place for projecting sound, received 10 Polk Audio MMC650 6.5" coaxials. To ensure that everyone in the immediate vicinity (and then some) could enjoy what the captain was putting out, four speakers face forward, with six firing back to the rider. Polk Audio turned to Audio Formz and Monster Tower when it came time to outfitting the boat with tower cans. The boat originally featured Monster Tower cans and hardware in the wakeboard tower. Those were exchanged for Audio Formz's new Twist-design cans. The Monster Tower mounting hardware and Monster Tower mirror and mount hardware were left in place from a previous install. Lastly, the cans were painted GM Victory Red to match the GMC Sierra that pulls the boat on land.
Waves Of Bass
Upon its maiden voyage, the craft set sail with just one Polk Audio MM2104 10" subwoofer. For the average angler this might suffice, but not for a Polk Audio demo boat. Two Polk Audio MM2124 woofers were loaded in the rear side storage compartments in Audio Formz enclosures painted GM Victory Red. The center rear seat was swapped for an enclosure fabricated my Mike Bobelak of Polk Audio, which houses two Polk Audio MM2124 subwoofers. Who needs to sit when there's so much sweet sound?
Providing amplification are two Polk Audio Momo Carbon-series C400.4 amplifiers, which send power to the speakers in the body and tower of the boat, and three Polk Audio C500.1 amplifiers, which handle the subwoofers. All of the amps are stored safely in a hidden compartment.
Visualize It
Since you can't ogle the bikini babes on shore all the time (not without getting arrested, anyway) you're going to want something else to keep your eyes occupied, and that's where two Directed Electronics 17-inch monitors, mounted in a rear access panel over the engine compartment, come in. They're supplied video signal by the aforementioned video iPod, as well as a Directed Electronics DVD player, which is housed in the amp compartment.
Rounding out the install are a Viper 5900 security system, complete with SST technology, two Optima BlueTop Marine batteries in stock locations and a generous helping of Monster Cable twisted 12-gauge speaker wire.
Polk Audio would like to thank Marine Audio; all the fine folks at Correct Craft; professional wakeboarder Adam Wensink; Hyperlite; EZ Loader Custom Trailers; Audio Formz; Monster Tower; Monster Cable; CS Soundoff; Matworks; Mothers; MOMO; Optima; Weld wheels; BFGoodrich; Directed Electronics; Sirius Satellite Radio; and Steve Whitmire and Charlie Garnes of CS Soundoff in Byram, MS, for all their help in making sure the installation was complete by the deadline.
Shop:
CS Soundoff
Byram, MS
Installers: Steve
Whitmire, Charlie Garnes