Is "marine" audio necessary?

[Lflowers230]

Thanks.

[Maine Sail]

Originally Posted by Lflowers230

I'm about to do the same thing. What I wonder about is the memory power. I read somewhere else on here that their units memory was drawing 1amp while in standby mode. Is it best to leave the memory wire with no power?

Absolutely not true.. This memory draw is very, very minimal..

Here's a Kenwood...

[PaulinVictoria]

I just have a little marine amp that I plug my MP3 player into. The MP3 player has a built-in FM radio if I don't want to listen to my tunes, and if I want to watch a DVD I just plug in my portable DVD player instead. Cost less than $100, and draws zero current when switched off as it doesn't have any memory/LCD to power.