Heres a question Id like to know. Why did Harley put a 2ohm deck in their new bikes and have a million companies have only 4ohm or 8 ohm speakers? Is the resistance that bad to ruin the volume of if u hook up say a 4ohm speaker to my stock 2ohm deck?

 

Love my HogTunes... Audio quality is100% subjective - listen to a couple of different setups and decide for yourself!


(That the stock speakers suck is'prolly the only thing that the majority of people on this forum would agree upon without debate... )

 

If you hook up a 4 ohm speaker to an amplifier rated for 2 ohms, you won't hurt the amplifier at all. But you'll only get 1/2 the volume at the same amplifier volume setting. Conversely, if you hook up a 2 ohm speaker to an amplifier rated for 4 ohms, it will draw twice the power, you'll get more volume, but you'll be running more power thru the amp than it is rated for. That can burn up an amp if you run high bass music.

More ohms than the amp is rated for is safer, absolutely doesn't hurt anything, but is not as loud. Lower ohm speakers can hurt an amp at high volume / high bass. In fact, hooking up a single 2-ohm speaker is exactly the equivalent load to the amp as driving two 4-ohm speakers.

A quality amp should be able to drive twice the volume at half the ohms. Few can, because there are few quality amps these days. Particularly in stock stereo head units like the HK ones in Harleys...

 

Maybe Ive got another problem but I dont think the Hog tunes are that great a speaker, I'm going to change themwhen I can find somthing better, maybe the radio too

 

Hello Pez or anyone out there,

This should be one of my last comments.

I read that J&M speakers have less bass than Hogtunes have have no direct experience with that. If I wanted to buy other speakers than J&M, I have a few more comments.

Why 5.75Ohm speakers instead of the 2, 4 or 8Ohm speakers that would be a direct match for the OEM Harley systems?

Please expalin for the masses out here that are even still on the fence.

I am now leaning toward a direct 8Ohm replacement from Hawg Tunes "without" the expensive "T" rated amps they push.

The speakers seem like the cloeset thing to your speakers but with the exact matching Ohm ratings of your OEM head units.

Why not exact Ohm rated speakers!!!

Thanks,

TB

 

Hello again,

I meant to say "Hawg Wired" and NOT Hogtunes in my last statement.

http://hawg-wired.com/

 

Since this thread mentions "other speakers" I would like to know if anyone has heard or used the polk audio mmc525 model? http://www.polkaudio.com/caraudio/products/mmc525/

 

As soon as I blow-up my stock speakers witch according to the moco I paid some percentage of a 1000 dollars worth? Id go with the hogtunes. So many people on this board and off the boards seem to like.[sm=icon_ladiesman.gif]