I have the soft top and the upgraded system. I upgraded to the Alpine because I was getting the Soft top. It is amazing! The wife and I drove to Steamboat a couple weeks ago and the sound was great with the top and doors off doing 70 on the highway. No rattle that I can hear.
No hate on the alpine as it's good and you didn't have to rip your jeep apart! I'd just do a sealed 8" sub in a 1 cubic foot sealed box with some batting inside .. 3/4" mdf with whatever your favorite mod/tweet combo is. Run a good 4 channel amp with the back bridged to the sub and go! A good 8" in a properly made sealed box can hammer it with some watts!
Absolutely can be.. Give me a $1400 budget? No contest as far as sound... Offroad pages etc? No... But that's where we differ... Important to you but not to me and the bigger screen? Nope. I'll take android auto and Google maps over the Garmin .. And G maps is really good with off road. As an installer I can create anything especially because the uconnect head unit is soooo good. I don't hate the Alpine but it sounds muddy to me. If you like it great I'm not hating . . I'm just saying it's not a 2018 Lexus LS with a Mark Levinson .
I've added a 8" jl audio sub that sounds great and am considering replacing the (4) 4" speakers, installing a used amplifier and jl fix 86 to add better mid and high levels. Any budget recommendations?
Definitely agree! I used to make sub boxes and play around with that stuff, but went with the stock fit/finish on this one. Not enough time for me to play with audio gear anymore, but dollar for dollar you can get better sound for sure. The larger screen is the one hard aftermarket fix.
The forums here talk about hothead and sound assassin. Since they gave me the stock liner for some reason I'm less inclined to go to the trouble now!
Looks Great! What Size Tires are those and do you have any pics from the front or rear or at an angle to the Jeep? I’m trying to gauge how far they are offset and stick out. Thanks for sharing!Here's my Sport S. Added the same tires as on a Rubicon. Frankly, looks-wise I like it better than the Rubicon. Capability-for-your-money the Rubicon can't be beat but I don't really need it for what I do.
Those are the standard tires unless you order the anti-spin rear differential option in which case you get the AT's (plus the differential and a Dana44 axle),.Wow, seems like the title for this tread shoulda been "I shoulda bought a Rubicon" !!! ?
Sorry, not complaining, just sayin'? Here is mine with not expected sissy tires from the factory order?!! HT's not even AT's!!
Go Jeep!!!
Yes, lots of people put them on. I considered it - but there are better (to me) rails out there.
If you already have the JL Sub.. Then you are really right there ! I'm not big on replacing the rear "fill" speakers. .. Do the front mods and tweets with a digital 2 channel amp and you'd be pretty surprised!
