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[Fat Man]

Hello. I have only recently started to develop an interest in car audio gear and issues.

I am 50 years old, fat, gray, noisy, and chatty.

I am a professional symphony orchestra musician. I started my professional career in 1985 and have been in my current orchestra full time since 1993.

I served in the US Army Band of New York City during Reagan's second term and used my GI Bill earnings and income from freelance gigs and teaching private lessons to put myself through five years of school at one of the top ten schools for my instrument.

I got into car stuff out of necessity; poverty has that effect. But my jeep has been an education unto itself. There are just about zero rivets in the thing. Almost every part can be removed via hand tools. It has been popular for so many decades that it has the largest aftermarket of any vehicle. So, if you see a part, it probably comes off easily, and some person probably has marketed an improved version of it or something that you can mount to it. (Heh, heh, heh...)

The stereo in a Wrangler or CJ is very problematic. Not only is there frequently no top, but the steel tub is well below your shoulder. The tub has zero soundproofing. The carpets are removable (and washable!) and the doors are frequently not on the vehicle. Getting decent sound in a jeep is like a minor miracle.

Add to that the fact that it is a jeep and goes into mud pits, fords rivers, and spends lots of time in places like the desert and you can see how the idea of creating a decent sound system holds many mysteries for jeepers. Many jeepers simply remove the stereo and replace it with a CB or a ham radio. Some "mall crawlers" do not ever go off road, and pimp the heck out of their jeep.

I am here to sort of find a middle way. I want an affordable system that I can install myself and reconfigure at will, that sounds as good as I can expect for the conditions that I will force upon it, as I go off road a lot and trash my jeep with shocking regularity. I also live in a high crime area.

So here I am. School me!

Hope to make some friends here.

Wade

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[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Hello. I have only recently started to develop an interest in car audio gear and issues.
I am 50 years old, fat, gray, noisy, and chatty.

I am a professional symphony orchestra musician. I started my professional career in 1985 and have been in my current orchestra full time since 1993.

I served in the US Army Band of New York City during Reagan's second term and used my GI Bill earnings and income from freelance gigs and teaching private lessons to put myself through five years of school at one of the top ten schools for my instrument.

I got into car stuff out of necessity; poverty has that effect. But my jeep has been an education unto itself. There are just about zero rivets in the thing. Almost every part can be removed via hand tools. It has been popular for so many decades that it has the largest aftermarket of any vehicle. So, if you see a part, it probably comes off easily, and some person probably has marketed an improved version of it or something that you can mount to it. (Heh, heh, heh...)

The stereo in a Wrangler or CJ is very problematic. Not only is there frequently no top, but the steel tub is well below your shoulder. The tub has zero soundproofing. The carpets are removable (and washable!) and the doors are frequently not on the vehicle. Getting decent sound in a jeep is like a minor miracle.

Add to that the fact that it is a jeep and goes into mud pits, fords rivers, and spends lots of time in places like the desert and you can see how the idea of creating a decent sound system holds many mysteries for jeepers. Many jeepers simply remove the stereo and replace it with a CB or a ham radio. Some "mall crawlers" do not ever go off road, and pimp the heck out of their jeep.

I am here to sort of find a middle way. I want an affordable system that I can install myself and reconfigure at will, that sounds as good as I can expect for the conditions that I will force upon it, as I go off road a lot and trash my jeep with shocking regularity. I also live in a high crime area.

So here I am. School me!

Hope to make some friends here.

Wade

Welcome to the forum Wade //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/bigwave.gif.16324171cad2db62cf4f16568b038478.gif