The Jeep is notorious for having a sound bar that can be noisy and have rattles. These problems become even more apparent when installing aftermarket speakers into the soundbar. In this video I sound treat the soundbar by ” sound deadening ” the soundbar adding SoundSkins material and polyfill to improve the bass and audio performance. The process completed in this video makes the bass sound much more clean with improved output and the mids and highs from the rear coaxial speakers also sound less muddy. This process can be used for any vehicle with a speaker cavity.
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I don’t see the link you mentioned about adapting the material on the soundbar enclosures for installing the new speakers: flat Poly propylene?
I have a question? When you installed the coaxial speakers, did you disconnect the factory tweeter? Because there’s tweeters in the front and tweeters in the sound bar I was planning on just putting 6 1/2 inch Fosgate subs in the rear sound bar and coaxial‘s in the front or 6 1/2 subwoofers in the front also, so do the tweeters need to be disconnected or can they stay connected?
still don't know how a 4 channel Amp pushes a 6 speaker interior on a jeep. what's pushing the front 3.5s?
You are good man! Awesome job
Nice video Mark. I have a 2016 wrangler with the sound bar that has the 6.5" and tweeter combo. I added a stronger 4ch amp so I want to run the 14ga speaker wire to each sound bar location, not using the factory wiring. Is there an easy way you've found to get the larger speaker wire inside the enclosure without simply drilling into it and still keeping it water tight?
You guys need to find an application for sound bars in a regular cars or trucks. I am planning on putting in a 6 speaker sound bar mounted to my headliner in my 1996 Ford Explorer XLT. I believe if you design and sell similar sound bars money could be made!
I just put Addictive Audio 6 5 in. Carbon fiber in my soundbar. It's deadened, insulated, and uses an inch and a half spacers so no need for cutting. It rocks hard and clean
@CarAudioFabrication Great Video ! One thing other videos talk about but you didn't mention is polarity of the speakers. I was hoping even though it does not pertain to this video you could help me out since you have the experience.
I have a 2022 JTRD with the upgraded 8.4 Alpine system. So I have a total of 9 speakers including the sub. 4 speakers up front (2 top dash / 2 knee panels) and 4 speakers in the rear sound bar (2 – 3/1/2" and 2 – 4"). I do not have the high tech equipment like a professional shop, so I used my cell phone and a multimeter to do my testing.
My question is mainly referring to the sound bar… but here is the deal:
There have been several instances where the wiring diagrams(posted on the Gladiator forum) and the +/- or polarities have been reversed from the factory , so I wanted to test and double check mine.
First I checked the front two(2) upper dash speakers with my multimeter and determined my +/- wires were opposite of the OEM wiring diagram. For the left, Grey/Orange – (Neg) and Grey/Yellow +(Pos). For the right, Grey/Dark Green -(Neg) and Grey/Light green +(Pos). Once I connected the speakers, I then used my cell phone app for Android (Polarity Checker) to double check my multimeter reading. When doing this, both upper dash and lower knee panel speakers "POPPED" green. So from these results, I am assuming I have all of the positive speaker wires coming from the head unit(AMP) connected to the proper positive terminal of the speaker.
***This is where my question/request comes in…..**** Since you have or most likely will work on other Gladiators/Wranglers with the 8.4 system or the next time you do, maybe check and verify for me.(PLEASE)
I know in general, you want all of your speakers to be the same polarity, either all "POPPING" green or all popping red, but from my understanding(which is limited on the subject) I read there are some instances where you want your speakers to have opposite polarities, such as if when the speakers are inside the same enclosure . I read it could also be caused when using a crossover. I wasn't sure if this was 100% true…
I haven't upgraded my soundbar yet, but before I did, I wanted to check their polarity. Testing using ONLY the cell phone app……. the two smaller 3-1/2" speakers (on the outside of each end of the sound bar "popped" red and the two inner 4" speakers "popped" green. I was wondering if since one of the 3-1/2" and one of the 4" speakers share the same pod, are they wired this way on purpose from the factory ? Thus, making the 4" push , while the smaller 3-1/2" pulls….. working together… maybe more efficient ? Or Should both be wired the same (making all 4 of the sound bar speakers function the same and "pop" green) and then ultimately, making all 8 speakers pop green together ? …
I plan on updating the rear soundbar speakers and want to make sure I have them wired correctly when I do.
Hopefully I didn't make this more confusing than necessary, any help would be greatly appreciated.
What do you suggest for sub placement underseat,tailgate,hidden compartment in trunk,or against backseat just for a nice full bass sound.
This channel is mostly marketing wank, if somehow you start speaking Ebonics, im going to loose it.
So, where did you hook up the new wire that you ran on the outside of the box? I'm about to upgrade my speakers and would like to do this exact method. Thanks in advance.