Anyone make a speaker grill with a built in tweeter pod for components? Would it sound better or are coaxial the best choice for a motorcycle going down the highway? Got to admit the Harley Boom ii speakers look cool imo.

 

Any brand you see that makes it for a bike is a gimmick speaker.

You can however have custom grills made to hold a tweeter. Legacy Baggers makes them.

 

Other then looking cool, do they have any sound benefit at highway speed?

 

Benji isn't offering any Road Glide grills yet, for the record

Cameron @ Bad Azz Bikes is modding stock RG grills and says he'll be offering customs soon

 

They said they can't make a grill to support the weight of a tweeter.

 

I will be using hawg wired steel mesh grills. Use the hole punch press at work and tweeter is mounted. This is the only affordable way to run separates without being a convertible. The advantage here is better quality speaker systems without being limited to a coaxial or convertible system. I have seen quite a few people do what I am doing and have no issues. Hell tweeter only weighs 1 or 2 ounces tops.

 

Let me try and put this in "IMHO" cave man terms cause when Haze and SD start chatting I kind of get that dawg watching TV look.
You will soon notice that for the most part practical coax speakers are no longer available as you climb the speaker food chain so component set ups at the higher levels are generally all u have (considering our space limits). So in theory that set up really is going to deliver the best sound once u reach that level of sled audio. The ideal crossover point to fairing components has many factors so be careful about making the move. I will not pull gauges to put tweets or horns so I may never reach such crossover point (famous last words). I will also not mount tweets in the batwing on the outside of the speaker hole as the perceived benefit would actually become a degradation in driver audio reception thus coax mounted in your face is going to be much more Bueno than a tweet mounted way out in the elements, the wind, and also on the other side of your hangers & controls Again IMHO.

Note: if you can get them mounted in the grill then game on!!!!! I'm just not at that point, yet.

I will let the pros chime in about the benefits, crossover point, and legitimate products that drive such crossover but take ur time Brotha as your current setup is going to hit hard in every category. Maybe a 2016 winter project?

T.

 

I'll be looking forward to some pics of your progress.

 

Just resurrected Pics of where I mounted my tweet's of the KPS components on my Batwing!! I thought it was a good location for the tweets nice and high near ear level and unobstructed straight to my ears!! Look at thread above (below) this one ; pics of my install'...from previous century!! LMAO

 

Ok here are a few samples given to me by some whom have done my plan. I will also spray the tweet with a waterproof repellant the has been stated not to affect performance. Cycle sound grill cloths on order to go behind the grills. I don't perceive any issues doing this. I can get one of the best front stage Hertz makes outside of horns ( which you can't mount in grills) and still not have anything drilled in fairing. My issue with drilling fairing is #1 it's been painted and wasn't cheap,#2 if that speaker dies and you can't find another (discontinued or whatever) you are screwed,#3 I may change stuff again down the road and replacing grills is a lot cheaper than filling and repaint the inner fairing.
I will center my tweet. One of the examples is offset. It works fine but I'll go center. I am calling my new setup project ZED and will keep it updated as stuff arrives and I get around to the install.