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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 10:13 AM
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Man for a 02 that is a clean bike. Love the rear. ATC should be a happy man. I abbreviated his user name there. The challenges are definitely a way to show some talent and use the brain. Only sad part is no one sees all the hard work and ingenuity that it took to get it done. But they get to hear it!! I do agree we need more finish line vids. Let guys see more of who has and done what, and the results.
Absolutely agree with this! Nobody knows the hard work that goes into setting up a system like this until they have done it. It's brutal. That goes double for my old ***. lol!!

Haze is a like a bull dog on a porkchop with this stuff bro!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 10:45 AM
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How long does it take to do an install like that? I have no experience, but it took me a LONG time to complete my BT7.1 and RZ4 2000D install!

Easiest thing was popping that tank off...thanks to Gan's encouragement, lol.
 
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 11:12 AM
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How long does it take to do an install like that? I have no experience, but it took me a LONG time to complete my BT7.1 and RZ4 2000D install!

Easiest thing was popping that tank off...thanks to Gan's encouragement, lol.
Something like that is about 2-3 days. Maybe 2 days after work, and then full weekend day. None of this is a "kit" or plug and play so what slows down progress a bit is the logistics -- having every speaker connector, screw, right sized bolt, measure wiring etc. Labor wise, popping stuff off is a breeze, installing speakers in the bags is a pain in the azz. Then there's always something that has to get resolved that slows things down. Last thing is tuning and EQing, but that's the fun part....getting it dialed in perfect. You can blast this system with any type of music and hear no distortion at any frequency.

Just bring your bike to Miami! Perfect excuse for a vacation
 

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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 11:32 AM
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Damn.. Sounds good except for that song lol
This...
 
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 11:53 AM
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Sounds great! What amp and speakers?
 
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 02:17 PM
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Man Haze that sounds SIC!! Great job as usual!! I also met and rode with one of the winners from Chicago Baddest Bagger contest, I guess he won The SPL with 128 db! He owns a powder coating business and rent half his building to F Bomb Baggers! He was running 4 RF amps 3-2 channel and 1-4 channel...4- 8 inch Hertz and 4 horns in the bags and 2-6.5 hertz and 2 horns in the fairing plus a DSP!! This was the best sounding bike I have heard IN PERSON!! it was very musical and tight!! Most of the 20 or so bikes I heard at the contest did not sound musical they were just loud, this bike was a MFer!! Great job on Airtraffic's bike it also sounds musical and not just loud!!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 02:32 PM
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Mike thanks brother.

I know the bike you are talking about. The blue one they had...it just sold this last week. You know those guys listed it and wouldn't list what the entire audio set up was for the specific reason to not let out their trade secrets, the competition circles are cut throat man...everyone looking for an edge. Probably not something they want openly shared.

On the flip side, yeah man there's loud and then there's loud with SQ. It's tough because it's much easier to make loud noise than good SQ. Noise also registers better on the meter!!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by haze324
Mike thanks brother.

I know the bike you are talking about. The blue one they had...it just sold this last week. You know those guys listed it and wouldn't list what the entire audio set up was for the specific reason to not let out their trade secrets, the competition circles are cut throat man...everyone looking for an edge. Probably not something they want openly shared.

On the flip side, yeah man there's loud and then there's loud with SQ. It's tough because it's much easier to make loud noise than good SQ. Noise also registers better on the meter!!
I would assume most of the respectable competitions have a combo finish line of both the DB meter and also industry judges for SQ?

Very damn subjective re SQ so industry experts would really be the closest u could get to fair, but certain that can be pretty damn tainted as well.

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Originally Posted by Tailwind
I would assume most of the respectable competitions have a combo finish line of both the DB meter and also industry judges for SQ?

Very damn subjective re SQ so industry experts would really be the closest u could get to fair, but certain that can be pretty damn tainted as well.

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Lately all competitions have been DB meters. The issue is the classes. Fairing, non-fairing, more than 10 speakers, under 1000 watts, over 1000watts, etc. No real standard way to do it. If this was a bike for straight meter movement I would've done a few things different, but it would've resulted in more "noise" vs. better sound. So I wouldn't necessary say that higher db's on a meter is a better audio system.
 
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 06:34 PM
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Sweet Jesus man!! That's an impressive setup.
 
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