The Jeep Compass sports a nine-speaker Boston Acoustics sound package - co-engineered by Visteon and Boston Acoustics - that brings a powerful 458- watt premium high-performance system with liftgate speakers that swing down for tailgating.

Visteon’s audio engineering expertise merges with Boston Acoustics’ custom-designed, precision-crafted speakers to distribute the smooth, octave- to-octave tonal balance known as The Boston Sound(TM) to all points of the Compass’ interior. The combination of customized speaker placement from Boston Acoustics and Visteon’s Digital Signal Processing produces sound with remarkable clarity and fidelity. The Jeep Compass’ audio system is engineered to optimize the vehicle’s interior environment, accounting for such acoustic factors as seat location, interior fabrics and materials.

The Jeep Compass takes premium audio innovation a step further, offering two speakers that are mounted into the rear liftgate. With the liftgate up, the speakers can be swiveled down and out to project the vehicle’s interior soundstage to the outdoors. An auxiliary input jack, on the standard radio, makes it easy to connect an MP3 player.

“This was a fun and very satisfying project for a cool vehicle,” said Julie Fream, Visteon customer group vice president and general manager. “It’s an honor that Visteon and Boston Acoustics were awarded the chance to uniquely contribute to the personality of this new vehicle.”

Visteon and Boston Acoustics also provide the sound systems in Chrysler’s 2006 PT Cruiser and PT Cruiser Convertible models, the Chrysler 300, the Jeep Commander and Jeep Grand Cherokee, as well as the Dodge Charger, Magnum and Caliber. Later this year, Visteon and Boston Acoustics will bring The Boston Sound to the Jeep Patriot, another highly anticipated vehicle.