Tunes in a TJ

[UPJOHN]

Hah yeah I had an 8-track too. My favorite 8-track tune was 8 Miles High by the Byrds. I loved that particular piece by the Byrds!!

I remember having to jamb a matchbook under my 8-track to keep it from chattering when playing my favorite Tommy James and the Shondells tape.

 

[Jerry Bransford]

Wow talking 8 tracks takes us back a few years doesn't it.

 

[Stinger]

That is my Android phone's ring tone.

I AM JEALOUS NOW!

 

[Stinger]

I AM JEALOUS NOW!

 

[UPJOHN]

Wow talking 8 tracks takes us back a few years doesn't it.

I never had or even seen a record player in a car, only in pictures, but i do remember having a reverb switch on the dash for the rear shelf speaker. speaking of 8-tracks, if you had a pair of Mind Blower speakers hooked up to your 8-track, you were really Rocking.

 

[Jerry Bransford]

It's cool how any music on the phone can be easily turned into Android ring tones. I have maybe 20-30 albums on my phone and switch its ring tone between various Beach Boys and Traveling Wilburys tunes as the mood hits. I've actually had Victory At Sea and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov as ring tones at times which always got me funny looks.

 

[Stinger]

I never had or even seen a record player in a car, only in pictures, but i do remember having a reverb switch on the dash for the rear shelf speaker. speaking of 8-tracks, if you had a pair of Mind Blower speakers hooked up to your 8-track, you were really Rocking.

Oh ya! 8 track, 4 or 6 speakers and the reverb! Uptown baby. Then came the cassettes! Carry 4 times as many!

 

[Stinger]

It's cool how any music on the phone can be easily turned into Android ring tones. I have maybe 20-30 albums on my phone and switch its ring tone between various Beach Boys and Traveling Wilburys tunes as the mood hits. I've actually had Victory At Sea and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov as ring tones at times which always got me funny looks.

Please pm me with those instructions!

 

[UPJOHN]

I am old enough to remember AM only radio, and having to listen to Rock and Roll at night on WLS out of Chicago, and the DJ doing a Boogy Check. it was the late 70s when we got FM here and I had to install an FM converter in my car to listen. I'm still out of the loop, mostly listening to Sirius XM in my Jeep.

 

[Jerry Bransford]

it was the late 70s when we got FM here and I had to install an FM converter in my car to listen.

I think you're thinking of the early-mid 60's aren't you? I was a college student in '65 when I bought a Motorola FM converter for my AM car radio to listen to my local FM jazz station. Car radios were commonly AM-FM-FM Stereo by the 70's.

 

[UPJOHN]

I think you're thinking of the early-mid 60's aren't you? I was a college student in '65 when I bought a Motorola FM converter for my AM car radio to listen to my local FM jazz station. Car radios were commonly AM-FM by the 70's.

We were ten years behind California here in Upper Michigan.

 

[UpperMI]

We were ten years behind California here in Upper Michigan.

Were??? I'm pretty sure it still is. It truly is a place to go back in time.

 

[Jerry Bransford]

Were??? I'm pretty sure it still is. It truly is a place to go back in time.

I could never get there, my TJ would never make it up to the required 88 mph.

 

[Germanshepherd]

my sound system is crap too and has no bass. I know why now, the subwoofer that is in the console is gone, prior owner removed it for some reason. i see qudratech has a direct fit replacement. I will buy that soon and sure I will be happy at that point as I am not expecting great sound out of a jeep but if adding the subwoofer helps just 20 percent I will be happy.

as far as CD's. i love my cd's and not into all the high tech stuff. CD's still work fine for me..

 

[Jerry Bransford]

i see qudratec has a direct fit replacement. I will buy that soon and sure I will be happy at that point as I am not expecting great sound out of a jeep but if adding the subwoofer helps just 20 percent I will be happy.

Check out Amazon and eBay too, I've seen replacement Rubicon subwoofers on there for years and cheaper than Quadratec with comparable or better quality. I've given up on buying Jeep stuff from Quadratec, their pricing for most items I have checked is much higher than many other sources. Not to mention what you order is not always in stock even if they tell you it is.

 

[TJ4Jim]

One of my favorite 8 tracks was Mountain.

 

[badlieutenant]

My radio fit perfectly inside the wranglers odd 1.5 DIN dash and has an sdcard slot for all my movies and music.

Best stereo for the wrangler, hands down.

It even has Pandora and Netflix... google maps...

Basically everything you could possibly want.

It's called the "S160" and I scored it off eBay for like $350 or so. Runs android. Brilliant screen and super fast.

 

[Mike Wood]

Speakers don't have to be expensive to sound good in the TJ's otherwise horrific acoustic environment. But they do need to have a >90 dB Sensitivity level so they won't need more power than typical head units like our Sonys can put out. A very good speaker choice that meets that Sensitivity requirement (and not many speakers do) without being stupid-expensive is the Polk DB series. 6.5" Polk DBs will fit into the soundbar without modification, at least they did in my '97 TJ's sound bar.

For the front, the TJ's speaker size is a 4x6 which is not a good shape to make a good sounding speaker. It'd be better to convert that 4x6 opening to a round opening for a 5.25" speaker. There are plenty of sheet metal adapters to do that in a TJ like at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007ZDCGVG/?tag=wranglerorg-20

So far as an MP3 player goes that will plug into your AUX jack, I use an Apple iPod Nano player which you can find used for a good price on eBay or similar sites. Here are some on Amazon... https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=apple+ipod+nano&tag=wranglerorg-20. Or just use your phone to store & play them though they aren't as easily controlled by a head unit as a Nano or similar MP3 player is.

I have a ton of CDs on mine and it does a good job, it even displays the album cover if you download the music to it properly. I loaded my CDs onto a program on my computer called Media Monkey which does a good job downloading onto players like the Apple NANO. And I don't know about your Sony but mine has built-in controls that perfectly control the Nano, even displaying the names, album, and genre on the Sony's display. Whoops your Sony needs a USB port for that, you'd have to control the MP3 player (like the Nano) manually if you just plug it into the Sony's Aux port.

Anyway, that combination has worked well for me for 10+ years, hope that helps.

Edit: P.S. If you buy one of the newer Sonys with built-in Bluetooth, you can make a wireless connection to your Android or iPhone for really easy playing. Though one thing I noticed about my Android's Bluetooth connection for when I play Pandora on my Android through the car radio is that it's not quite as clear sounding as it is when I play the Nano through its USB port. Though that may be because my Bluetooth connection to the Sony is via an FM channel since my Sony is one generation too old to have its own built-in Bluetooth.

 

[Mike Wood]

Looking at upgrading my stereo this weekend for my 2006 TJ. If I am reading this right, there are three (3) sets of 5.25's in the Jeep, correct? Front (with adapter), door panels, and sound bar? So I should buy 3 sets of Polk's?

 

[Jeep9748]

For what its worth, I install a poly fill fabric. I get it from Meijer or wallyworld, but its great inside the rear soundbar for creating a crisp sound. Eliminating that echo sound of a hollow box really made the drive better for me. plus its super easy and next to nothing in cost.