new member! Harley Bagger system build.

[kustom78]

hello all! I'm new to the forum and looking to get some opinions. I have a 2014 Harley street glide and currently have the stock infotainment system running to a PAC line converter, to a JL 400/4 amp to 2 6.5" infinity kappas. I've blown my speakers after a few years and in the market to change things up! First what I am looking to get after changing, clarity the kappas are way too harsh and bright so this time I'm looking at silk tweeters not metal.

So, here's some of my thoughts. change my cheapo line converter to something substantially better like a LC2. From everything I gather the stock HU has a built in amp with a custom EQ built to match their crappy speakers. From what I've seen a good line converter like this will be good to counter this.

As far as speakers go, I'm thinking JL C3's or Rockford's T3's. both sound good on the boards.

thoughts?

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[hispls 5,000+ posts]

A very important factor with how your fronts sound is whether they're on-axis or off-axis. Most speakers sound dramatically different whether they're pointing at you (like a demo board in a shop) or if your ear is 45 degrees from the speaker pointing right at you. See for yourself. Turn on a speaker at normal levels and move yourself directly in front of it, then off to the side.

Anyway, many companies build speakers for car with the theory that they'll typically be down low in door and build for good off-axis response, higher end components expect users to use custom mounting so that they're more on-axis and design according to that philosophy.

The point being that dome material might not be what you're hearing that you don't like. In theory if ANY of these materials colored the sound they would fall out of use quickly. Any material based breakup in a well designed speaker should fall outside of its intended bandwidth or be handled with notch filter built into the crossover. Also the point being if you're listening in person make sure your ear position relative to where the speaker is aiming is similar to the angle in your install.

 

[SLAB153]

hello all! I'm new to the forum and looking to get some opinions. I have a 2014 Harley street glide and currently have the stock infotainment system running to a PAC line converter, to a JL 400/4 amp to 2 6.5" infinity kappas. I've blown my speakers after a few years and in the market to change things up! First what I am looking to get after changing, clarity the kappas are way too harsh and bright so this time I'm looking at silk tweeters not metal.
So, here's some of my thoughts. change my cheapo line converter to something substantially better like a LC2. From everything I gather the stock HU has a built in amp with a custom EQ built to match their crappy speakers. From what I've seen a good line converter like this will be good to counter this.

As far as speakers go, I'm thinking JL C3's or Rockford's T3's. both sound good on the boards.

thoughts?

I recently upgraded my stock 2016 road glide in the garage, I'm running a soundstream pn4.320d on 2 infinity kappa 62.11i with no converter. The kappas wasn't too harsh on my 2013 street glide with Sony marine CD player. I tuned it with the built in 13 band eq. It's a huge difference in sound with bike off to idle especially at speeds 70 n above. 2 kappas in fairing n 2 in the lower fairing was perfect n word for word at 90mph

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