Just curious how much power you think a set of speakers that are essentially 6x9's need? Especially when the kenwood is pushing almost double the power of a stock HK radio? I have a 250 watt jm amp that pushes what? 60 watts rms per channel?

By serious I didn't mean who can put a bunch of watts in to a set of speakers, I meant serious like running speakers correctly, I have a feeling I'm going to get better sound from my stereo after I pull the amp, but if I don't, I'll hook the amp up? I guess that's hilarious?

Cool!

 

Thanks dude, but I'm sitting on an amp and 4 rokkers that I'm trying to get to sound better than crap right now.

 

I didn't realize the Titan II's had the removeable tweeter.

 

I'm not sure either ... but in speaking with HAT and Biketronics the Titan IIs are using Imagine series components.

 

I spent the money on a J&M system for my 2010 FLHX last summer. Had those speakers in two weeks, took them out and sold them. Got the Harley Boom speakers and liked them much better, mainly the bass improvement. Go figure

 

This makes sense, the size of the magnet on the woofer is extremely small.

 

Have you ever here the saying, there is no replacement for displacement.
The same ideals apply in custom stereo systems, having more power in a stereo is like having an 8 cylinder car versus a 4 cylinder .

The 4 cylinder car may perform very well, and have a high level of output.

but it's running on the ragged edge, and wearing out the components more quickly.( distortion destroys speakers, not clean power)

Vs the 8 cylinder which is able to give you the same or greater level of performance, while still having more power in reserve without putting undue stress on the components.

In other words the 4 banger is on the extreme edge of it's performance capability, and the V8 humming along in cruse control.

What I am trying to say is that having ample power is good, it gives you dynamic headroom.

More power = less distortion for a given volume level.

It dosen't mean that you have to turn it up to ridiculous sound levels.

I will be running 70 watts rms into speakers with sensitivity >90db @ 1meter, which should be enough to allow me to here my music @ freeway speeds. without large amounts of distortion.

 

Playing anything through the HK head unit on the aux input sounds like garbage. Put in a CD or a CD with MP3's and it will sound much better.

I ditched the HK head unit and used an Alpine CDA105, along with the J&M amp and some Polk Audio speakers (not that they're great, but they're 2.7 ohm). I also tried some MB Quart 6.5's, some Hertz speakers and some Alpine speakers.

Best sound was probably with the MB Quart, but they don't have much bass. We experimented and put by 4 6"x9" Pioneer 5-ways in the bags with an Alpine PDX F6 four channel 150 watt amp in my buddy's bike. Loud and clear, good mid-bass.

I'm looking for a good deal on some used bags so I can experiment with installing some Loud Lids with a pair of 10" subs in the bags (need to glass the bag to make a solid enclosure).

Find a way to get a good signal to your J&M stuff and it will sound good.

 

What MCSG said...

I have an Alpine CDA 9886M head unit (Marine), Alpine PDX-4.100M amplifier, a pair of Polk 6.5" speakers in the lower fairings, Polk 6" in the upper fairing and a hog tunes tweeter add on box on the upper fairing as well. Also a pair of Polk 6X9" speakers in the saddlebags. Probably about $1000 in hardware. Can't beat the sound though, and the USB port and IPod hookups are a must, lol.

Crisp sound, good bass response even for not having subs, and I can hear it at my 80 MPH cruising speed without having to crank up the volume more than 40%. When I do crank it up, it turns heads, lol.

 

Not on my bike. The FM radio or CD doesn't come close to how loud or clear running my Ipod with the aux input does.