Stereo replacement

GrandpaKip wrote:
The biggest problem for me is that I haven’t found any car stereos that have an A, AB, and B speaker switch. I do use this feature. I know I could add the switch elsewhere and may go that route when I have to replace that High Quality Jensen in the camper.

Good grief!!!

You let a small detail of a dirt simple external speaker switch totally defeat you into keeping those lousy "RV" stereos.

A $15 switch for heavens sake..

Looks like this..



Which IF you bought a good quality car stereo will have plenty of room leftover to mount the stereo AND the switch.

You can even buy more advanced speaker switches which add in more speaker connections, volume controls for each speaker giving you much more control than your hopeless "RV" stereo could give.

Your giving up a lot by locking yourself into RV trash stereos..

Advanced features like Streaming services like Pandora, BT streaming from your phone, tablet, PC, Sat radio, MP3/WMA through USB flash drives..

But, go ahead and stay with your 1980s RV "quality" stereo..

According to their website, Crutchfield has 33 varieties of car stereos with DVD players in them. To get A/B speaker control, just wire the inside speakers as front and exterior speakers as rear and use the "FADER" control to go inside & outside speakers.

Gdetrailer wrote:

GrandpaKip wrote:
The biggest problem for me is that I haven’t found any car stereos that have an A, AB, and B speaker switch. I do use this feature. I know I could add the switch elsewhere and may go that route when I have to replace that High Quality Jensen in the camper.

Good grief!!!

You let a small detail of a dirt simple external speaker switch totally defeat you into keeping those lousy "RV" stereos.

A $15 switch for heavens sake..

Looks like this..



Which IF you bought a good quality car stereo will have plenty of room leftover to mount the stereo AND the switch.

You can even buy more advanced speaker switches which add in more speaker connections, volume controls for each speaker giving you much more control than your hopeless "RV" stereo could give.

Your giving up a lot by locking yourself into RV trash stereos..

Advanced features like Streaming services like Pandora, BT streaming from your phone, tablet, PC, Sat radio, MP3/WMA through USB flash drives..

But, go ahead and stay with your 1980s RV "quality" stereo..

I was going to install something similar. But instead went with 4 push button switches that would do the same thing.

The cheaponly st car stereo is Bette than any RV stereo. I fact you could go so far as to install a double din touch screen and install a camera to monitor the outside if you wanted. Lots of options if you really put your mind to it.

Gdetrailer wrote:

GrandpaKip wrote:
The biggest problem for me is that I haven’t found any car stereos that have an A, AB, and B speaker switch. I do use this feature. I know I could add the switch elsewhere and may go that route when I have to replace that High Quality Jensen in the camper.

Good grief!!!

You let a small detail of a dirt simple external speaker switch totally defeat you into keeping those lousy "RV" stereos.

A $15 switch for heavens sake..


Looks like this..



Which IF you bought a good quality car stereo will have plenty of room leftover to mount the stereo AND the switch.

You can even buy more advanced speaker switches which add in more speaker connections, volume controls for each speaker giving you much more control than your hopeless "RV" stereo could give.

Your giving up a lot by locking yourself into RV trash stereos..

Advanced features like Streaming services like Pandora, BT streaming from your phone, tablet, PC, Sat radio, MP3/WMA through USB flash drives..

But, go ahead and stay with your 1980s RV "quality" stereo..

Nothing is making me keep the Jensen, other than it still works.
I guess I should have used the Sarcasm font.
Better reading comprehension could have kept you from a long snarky post.

GrandpaKip wrote:
The biggest problem for me is that I haven’t found any car stereos that have an A, AB, and B speaker switch. I do use this feature. I know I could add the switch elsewhere and may go that route when I have to replace that High Quality Jensen in the camper.


Nothing is making me keep the Jensen, other than it still works.
I guess I should have used the Sarcasm font.
Better reading comprehension could have kept you from a long snarky post.

OOOOOOHHHHH, it was a "Joke"?, yeah, that was extremely funny (not!) and helpful (not) towards the OPs question..

OP may or may not have the same issue you have with 3 sets of speakers, not all RVs contain that configuration making your joke pretty, well, lame.

I also would not be proud of Jenson, that name is slapped on pretty much any cheaply made electronics and the OP was looking for ideas to get way from said junk.

My point to YOUR joke was serious, the three speaker configuration IS easy to get around but a lot of folks let themselves be totally defeated by this quandary and ultimately waste $300 for another of the same RV replacement stereos..

Same goes for supposed multichannel RV stereo "theater" setups with subwoofers but I will not bother wasting any more electrons posting to you on how to figure that out since you already have the snarky sarcasm corner job position filled..

Pioneer.

Gdetrailer wrote:

GrandpaKip wrote:
The biggest problem for me is that I haven’t found any car stereos that have an A, AB, and B speaker switch. I do use this feature. I know I could add the switch elsewhere and may go that route when I have to replace that High Quality Jensen in the camper.


Nothing is making me keep the Jensen, other than it still works.
I guess I should have used the Sarcasm font.
Better reading comprehension could have kept you from a long snarky post.

OOOOOOHHHHH, it was a "Joke"?, yeah, that was extremely funny (not!) and helpful (not) towards the OPs question..

OP may or may not have the same issue you have with 3 sets of speakers, not all RVs contain that configuration making your joke pretty, well, lame.

I also would not be proud of Jenson, that name is slapped on pretty much any cheaply made electronics and the OP was looking for ideas to get way from said junk.

My point to YOUR joke was serious, the three speaker configuration IS easy to get around but a lot of folks let themselves be totally defeated by this quandary and ultimately waste $300 for another of the same RV replacement stereos..

Same goes for supposed multichannel RV stereo "theater" setups with subwoofers but I will not bother wasting any more electrons posting to you on how to figure that out since you already have the snarky sarcasm corner job position filled..

The “joke” was the bit about the High Quality Jensen.
I was serious about the A, AB, and B settings for the inside and outside speakers (2 sets, not 3). I use this feature a lot and would prefer it to be built in.
I did say that I would consider a speaker selection switch if it came to that.
I will now return to my corner.

There are not decent RV industry branded radios. The high end motorhomes have residential grade home theater systems and components that need AC power which is acceptable because they have generators while traveling and stay with full hookups. This is why people recommend car stereo systems if you want decent quality 12V DC powered AM/FM. Otherwise, pick your favorite Bluetooth speaker and keep it charged.

I replaced an old Concertone a few years ago with a Jensen. There was a big wiring change with the switch out. I made a diagram of the old wiring and labeled them. The replacement had the A, B and AB. I had to do some figuring, before I connected everything. Hint, the replacement CD doesn't always work on certain CD's.