Subwoofer In Saddle Bag
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Originally Posted by Gannicus
Sorry Bro Just My .02. I see guys with subs all the time at the bike night bars. But my 3 sets of 6x9's blow those guys away and I can hear mine at 80 mph. I say go for it if that's what you want. I tried em and didn't like em. You might love em!
I honestly think us Rushmore guys are screwed regarding subs. I hooked that hideaway thing up today and cannot get enough of a signal to make it all come together. When I Yed the HU speaker output I got nothing but a whisper to the rear speaks and sub. When I hooked straight to the sub from the HU unhooking the lids, it sounded great. But I don't think I can get the signal to get the rear system off the HU to branch off and push both the speaks and sub.
Again Haze is right there when I need him but I think I might be limited my resources and not Hazes knowledge.
Just for the record, this is not Hazes idea. I own this crazy experiment contrary to my adult supervision of Haze and Gan.
T.
I'm with Gannicus on this one to a degree. I've tried it with 2 Kicker CompR 8s and an additional 650 watts, not impressed. Replaced with full range pro audio 8s running in parallel with a pair of 6x9s, very impressed.
It's all about the bass frequencies you can hear, and bikes are poor at reproducing the low frequencies in an open environment. But, admittedly I'm in a different opinion category than most. I believe in pro audio speakers for the mids and bass, to me they make more sense. Higher efficiency, meant to be in open environments and play louder frequencies that are harder to hear on a bike.
It's all about the bass frequencies you can hear, and bikes are poor at reproducing the low frequencies in an open environment. But, admittedly I'm in a different opinion category than most. I believe in pro audio speakers for the mids and bass, to me they make more sense. Higher efficiency, meant to be in open environments and play louder frequencies that are harder to hear on a bike.
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Originally Posted by LL247
I'm with Gannicus on this one to a degree. I've tried it with 2 Kicker CompR 8s and an additional 650 watts, not impressed. Replaced with full range pro audio 8s running in parallel with a pair of 6x9s, very impressed.
It's all about the bass frequencies you can hear, and bikes are poor at reproducing the low frequencies in an open environment. But, admittedly I'm in a different opinion category than most. I believe in pro audio speakers for the mids and bass, to me they make more sense. Higher efficiency, meant to be in open environments and play louder frequencies that are harder to hear on a bike.
It's all about the bass frequencies you can hear, and bikes are poor at reproducing the low frequencies in an open environment. But, admittedly I'm in a different opinion category than most. I believe in pro audio speakers for the mids and bass, to me they make more sense. Higher efficiency, meant to be in open environments and play louder frequencies that are harder to hear on a bike.
If anything i am gonna try and find a way to break the code tomorrow regarding a good source to split or y from the HU as an additional amp will need this regardless of whether it is pushing a sub or speaks. If not I will have to become a student of parallel ops.
Thanks again!!!!
T.
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T, now that's thinking outside the box, (Kicker sub)! I'm sure you've seen the BT 1014X kit for adding after market HU to 14 and up bikes! I heard that BT is also working on a Double Din set up for Rushmore bikes, anyway keep up the good work!
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Ive seen three amps on big wheel Rushmore that sounded awesome.
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Originally Posted by haze324
Ive seen three amps on big wheel Rushmore that sounded awesome.
It was baffling to see how a simple Y on the rear speaker channel coming out of the HU put that entire channel in whisper mode. I might have to run RCA Ys after the LL but crank the gain up a bunch to make up for sharing this HU signal.
Time & a whole lot of patience will tell.
Still having fun at least and did not throw a single tool thru the garage wall!!!!
Thanks Haze!!!
T.
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Planning on PA style with horns in the fairing (will use 4 channel amp that is now bridged) and 2 channel for lowers.
IF I ever decide to do lids, I'll be giving up a bag for an amp to run everything.
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That's damn good news!!! I will stop by HD this morning and also the Big Wheel bike shop today and get some ideas how they are breaking the code.
It was baffling to see how a simple Y on the rear speaker channel coming out of the HU put that entire channel in whisper mode. I might have to run RCA Ys after the LL but crank the gain up a bunch to make up for sharing this HU signal.
Time & a whole lot of patience will tell.
Still having fun at least and did not throw a single tool thru the garage wall!!!!
Thanks Haze!!!
T.
It was baffling to see how a simple Y on the rear speaker channel coming out of the HU put that entire channel in whisper mode. I might have to run RCA Ys after the LL but crank the gain up a bunch to make up for sharing this HU signal.
Time & a whole lot of patience will tell.
Still having fun at least and did not throw a single tool thru the garage wall!!!!
Thanks Haze!!!
T.
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Originally Posted by Bunker
could you wire in a LL to split a channel from the HU and crank the gain up there before it hits the amp to compensate?
This BTM Rushmore POS HU is all about resistance and cares not about volts, amps, ohms, etc.... Thus the HD boys think I am throwing a code when I hook up the split. Technically if you split down river of the LL, the HU should never see it because the LL has a thingamagig in there that would prevent any/all changes to resistance, so no clue why my HU is able to sniff out this resistance change.
If you guys need me I will be over on the Ford Truck Audio Forum chatting up all the audio stuff that was going to go in my sled and is now going in my truck.
Hope you have better luck as I totally got my **** kicked!!!!
T.