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Old Dec 25, 2012 | 08:30 PM
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Was about to pull the trigger on the HD Boom Audio, but was reading about the Hog Tunes Big Ultra Kit. The HD system would run me close to 9 bills installed, but the HT kit is only 560.00 and looks to be plug and play.

Hoping some can advise which would be better.
 
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Old Dec 25, 2012 | 11:34 PM
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Hog tunes stuff is great, I have them. Can't complain.

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Old Dec 25, 2012 | 11:39 PM
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I put the boom speakers in my batwing fairing....without an amp or any of that ****...just replaced the stockers.

They work GREAT.

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Old Dec 26, 2012 | 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by A Whole lotta Rosey
Was about to pull the trigger on the HD Boom Audio, but was reading about the Hog Tunes Big Ultra Kit. The HD system would run me close to 9 bills installed, but the HT kit is only 560.00 and looks to be plug and play.

Hoping some can advise which would be better.
For 900 bucks J&Ms beat the heck out of Boom!
 
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Old Dec 26, 2012 | 07:44 AM
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I have the Hogtunes Big Ultra with the tweeter pod and woofer kit in the lowers. Much better than stock.
 
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Old Dec 26, 2012 | 07:50 AM
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HT plug & play is correct...pretty easy install & great quality.
 
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Old Dec 26, 2012 | 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by PFWiz
For 900 bucks J&Ms beat the heck out of Boom!
agreed.
 
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Old Dec 26, 2012 | 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by traveler
I put the boom speakers in my batwing fairing....without an amp or any of that ****...just replaced the stockers.

They work GREAT.

~Joe
i was wondering about the boom speakers also .do you like how they sound and can you hear them going down the road? i was'nt going to add an amp or any other stuff.
 
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DO yourself a favor and forget both of them if your going to spend thart kinda cash. I went from stock speakers to hog tunes and there was a noticeable difference. Then went to boom audio and there was even more noticeable difference. Booms kicked stock and hogtunes butt by far.
But for just a couple to few hundred bucks you could just get a rockford fosgate pbr300x2 amp (like $125-140 amazon or on classifieds here) and get some polk audio mm651 speakers ($127-140 amazon)
Do the install yourself. Its pretty easy and you will have a kick *** system for under 300 bucks.
 
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