As tempting as that is to play with, seeing as how he has a Road King where would he put that thing? If I had a Street Glide I would be tinkering with one of those amps. With my Geezer Glide windshield though I can get by with a lot fewer watts.

 

You don't have 500 watts!.. What amp? LOL

I am throwing 400 watts each to a set of 6.5's. But, they are a higher tier speaker than MMat's and are band passed so they play where they should. No built in bass blockers or caps on them! (to burn out), and they are ran through a DSP! ( see the differences we are talking here)

Juice

 

What makes you think I don’t have 500 watts??
I had the 801cx hooked to a Timpano 1400/1 controlled by a dsp. Granted it was a short test but sounded fine. Ran them on a 600/6 for a couple weeks that metered at 380w @ 14.2v.
Although, I don’t think meter output and load output is necessarily the same on any amp.

 

The same place he would put a Stinger 700.

T

 

Man you guys will argue who has the brownest sh*t.

 

The clipping problems you're talking about with the gains set low, would a SMD-DD1 pick that up?

 

Well I figured the Stinger 350 is 5.11" wide, the Massive TX48 is 10.75" wide. On an aftermarket fairing on a Road King that sounds like a big difference in size.

123Ozzie sorry I didn't dig into the problem with the gains set too low very much. I figured I was having to turn the volume up on the head unit so high that the output was starting to distort. The amps would actually go into protection mode because they sensed distortion in the speakers I guess. When I turned the gains back up a tad the problem went away and never came back.

 

I totally get it brother but this is ultimately where the OP got railroaded on his thread as it went blindly into a pissing contest about watt/voltage headroom vs space requirements which are usually the limiting factor.
With 4 amps and a DD DSI-2 under my hood, I really do get the primary discussion should be about millimeters and centimeters.
Thus until all those specifics are identified, this discussion really is no use to the RK folks w aftermarket fairings. But it was fun to watch.

With that being said, OP what specific fairing do you have? What HU? Bluetooth amp? How much space do u conservatively predict will be available for your project?

T

 

Hmm, for my part, I saw the SG in his aviator, had that stuck in my mind the entire way. I totally glossed over the aftermarket RK fairing. I don't think anyone really knows what will fit, until that's confirmed, which is priority #1.

 

I honestly don't know what fairing it is. My guess would be a cheap Ebay fairing. I found it on CL with a Sony HU and 4 5.25 Memphis speakers for $150. It can be heard at highway speeds but it has to be at full volume and just doesn't sound the best.

My plan was to replace the four 5.25's with 2 quality 6.5's and add a amp. Not apposed to replacing the HU too.

As far as space inside the fairing...... I have 2 older SS PN4.520D's that I was able to put one on top and one hunter the HU with room to spare.

My long term goal was to have something that I could hear at highway speeds and not invest a lot of money into. Next year around this time I plan on trading in the RK and getting a Ultra or Street Glide.