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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Camping with Bluetooth Speakers: Small Size, Big Sound, Ultra-Portable

Whether docked at an RV campground or camping at the music festival fairgrounds, for many of us, tunes are essential. Some RVers use the camper’s stereo; car campers often turn up the vehicle’s sound. We’ve used the Harman Kardon Onyx Studio for several years, getting such good sound that neighboring campers often enjoy our output. But for those who want more full, rich, and dynamic sound in a portable speaker – all off your smartphone – today’s smaller Bluetooth speakers can fill the campsite or trail with audio bliss.

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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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