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I agree 70 mph is the great equalizer, for me I'm looking at efficiency and fitment. The struggle I'm constantly battling is the car audio side of me wants a 3 way active setup up front, and a sq quality surround with bass fill powered by giant brax amps. The realistic side of me says fit it in the fairing, I like to remove the tour pack for riding locally and so I don't want to give up saddle bag space so it's gotta be smaller but still put out clean efficient class d power. And clearly a 3 way active setup won't work for me up front especially on a 14 flhtk wet head so my best options are solid coax speakers or a 2 way setup maybe if I can figure a balanced empty area to flush in tweeters.
As long as you don't mind giving up bag or tour pack space. That's a no-go for me.
I hear you Pioneer. . .Bag space is critical especially riding two up. What I noticed though if the OL takes a smaller purse I can still get all of our stuff in the tour pak. The extended bags and the luggage rack also helps if worst comes to worst.
Reading the fine print "your results may vary" I must have gotten one of the RF PBR's that varied, as I noticed a substantial difference between the RF and the JL Audio. To the OP A large contributor "for me" is the windshield I ride with, my typical set up when riding with the fairing is a 6.5 klockwerks, long trips I put a 15" shield on, quietens everything down a lot, fine line between cool and comfort.
Here is a side x side of the two amps that I own, there is a difference
Not apples to apples eric. . . You have what looks like a PBR300X4 and a JL 600/4 for comparison. Obviously the JL is going to sound better than the X4. Results are going to vary big time with that comparison unless you have 2 ohm speakers and the X2. . . lol. I also see you have the Hertz 690 6 X 9's up front. Those puppies need plenty of power to sound good. Here's my point. You can take the X2 and the JL with two ohm speakers and you won't notice much of a difference at SPEED between the two amps. I suspect your system would sound just as good with the Power Acoustik RZ4 2000D at speed.
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I can still get all of our stuff in the tour pak. The extended bags and the luggage rack also helps if worst comes to worst.
