Not a Fan of obnoxious stereos on Bikes, Cars, or trucks. Not a fan of obnoxious exhaust on bikes either. I usually ask those with obnoxious exhaust if they would like to race.

Doesn't need to be loud and obnoxious to make big power. Only time my bike is loud is if I am getting on it hard. Music is loud when on interstate or else where over 55 mph,

 

There are times and places. I thought there were laws as well.

 

Someone complaining about loud anything that owns a Harley is well... pretty hypocritical. (Well for the most part). Some actually do have some pretty tame exhausts, but 99% don't. I hear every Harley that rides by our house. I don't hear every auto.

How come you didn't post this in the Audio Sub Forum?

 

For miles... Ya ok... .

 

noise pollution comes in many forms.
Only thing I'd consider hypocritical is if those with blaring pipes and loud speakers pi55 'n moan about the kids at the light or gas station with their bump'in megawatt systems

..L.T.A.

 

Haha exactly my thought. Like the D Bags with straight pipes and the “Loud pipes saves lives” shirt. Lol. Loud pipes create laws because you annoy older folks and every day citizens that don’t ride.

what travels faster? Light or Sound?

 

It's the modern version of the 80s boomboxes, one guy blasting Judas Priest walking down one side of the Street, another Blasting Run DMC on the other side of the street...then they invented the Walkman personal stereo in the 90s...things go full circle...me I have teh ability to listen to music inside my head while riding..I dunno if I am intelligent or stupid, but I don't need a stereo on my Harley...modern music sucks anyway, when did musicians stop being able to play good music? where is the modern day Jimmy Page and John Bonham..yeah I know too much work I guess..

 

No matter what you're into, there always has to be someone taking it to an obnoxious level.
One of my neighbors has straight pipes, so he turns the stereo up above that, and then warms up in his driveway for 1/2 hour.
I don't let it aggravate me too much. Life is easier that way, and I'm moving to the country some day soon.

 

I couldn't have said it better.

Ditto.

 

The audio quality from an open-air bike is not much different than that from a boat or a convertible... it takes way too much investment to make a stereo like this sound good when the volume is turned up.
I don't even recall the last time I turned my bike radio on except to prove that it still works.

I've probably got close to $1,000 into the stereo setup in our Jeep, and that's not being over the top with any of it.
$200 for a decent BT receiver.
$200 for a modest 4-channel amp.
$200 for a powered 8" sub unit that fits under the drivers' seat.
$300-$400 for speakers (we have a total of 8).
It sounds decent with the top off, but still lacks the full range of many setups, and that's ok because we can finally hear it on the freeway.

There simply isn't enough room to install a decent audio setup on a bike without investing 3-4 times that, and I simply don't see the point when a $250 BT helmet and a phone that I already have works great.