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When Music Festival Tunes Come From the Campsite

Looking to upgrade your camper’s stereo system? Aren’t we all? We met a couple at Lockn’ Music Festival – Kris Hall and Nick Mullins – who mostly gutted the stereo in their travel trailer and installed a serious system. Their story is below. Warning: Audiophiles will dig the depth of detail Nick queued up. Others’ eyes may glaze over. Pro Tip: Even if you don’t have a camper or care about AV, find people like Kris and Nick who do. They’ll have the best sound around.

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Pro Tips to Upgrading Your RV, Camper Stereo

We recently explored the idea of upgrading your camper’s stereo system from the lousy, two-bit stock system to something that really rocks. We let Nick Mullins tell the story of how he and Kris Hall mostly gutted the stereo in their travel trailer to replace it with some serious tunage. Building on their story, Ora Freeman, the national sales manager for JL Audio, which recently struck a deal to outfit Airstream trailers with its products, offered this pecking order for audio upgrades. If you’re a non-audiophile, this may be like Ambien. But in all honesty, these tips work for your RV, trailer, car, even your boat, where JL Audio shines.

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Getting Past Those Damn Fugly RVs – Outside & In

RVers love our rigs. But sometimes, the paint jobs and interior decor are enough to make your head swirl as you reach for the Zofran. What’s a camper to do? Lord knows we’re not helping nudge the industry away from its tried-and-tired experiment with wavy designs and archaic color schemes. So let’s explore a bit what got us to the point of Pantone colors seemingly custom-chosen for hiding a 40-foot RV in the forest so even a park ranger hunting boondockers through the trees would be stymied.

First, about RVers…  Spend some time in a campground or on RV and camping social media sites (or almost any social media, for that matter), and one thing becomes pretty clear pretty quickly: we RVers can be warm, welcoming, and willing to lend a hand or serve as your spotter when backing into your site (even if they break out the smartphone to capture the hilarity).

And we can be a surly, hard-to-please lot.

Case in point: I posted a photo recently about my pretty, new wind chimes.

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JL Audio, Airstream Turning Up RV Sound Systems

Today’s RVs have almost every conceivable creature comfort and custom creation. From man cave to she shed to the perfect vehicle for roadtripping to the campground or music festival scene, they’ve been outfitted with finishes designed to bring the home or retreat on the road. One component that always has been woefully missing: Better sound. Hey, RV Industry, what’s the deal? We drop $20,000, $50,000, even $100,000 or more on a travel trailer or RV, and the stereo system seems something out of a 1960s family sedan. Boats for years have had stellar sound systems. Why not RVs?

Sure, some people insist RVs are for camping – and the ambient sounds should be tuned into birds and crickets and wind blowing through the trees and all that. Fair enough.

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Music Festivals + Camping = A Magical Experience

The people from TheDyrt recently posted about camping at music festivals. They mostly explored tenting. While many of #RoadtripMojo’s fans pull out their RV or van camper, hitch up their travel trailer, a fair lot – like those at #KampHappiness and #TheQuartermoonBand sites dig pitching their tents to enjoy the show – and whatever comes after, like a little pickin’,  grinnin’, grillin’ and chillin’, or just some spacial exploration.

In their post, the authors comment how “camping at a music festival is an entirely different experience than camping in the woods. The peaceful bird songs in the morning are replaced by stadium speakers and rowdy crowds. While you might lose some solitude, you’ll gain the experience of rocking out with thousands of new friends.” (To see other festivals, check out RoadtripMojo’s ‘Nicked From the Web’ Festival Compilation)

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