The boss man (Buddy), has a '08 Harley Street Glide, and like all Harley guys, you gotta 1-up the next one...lol. Back when carried Infinity/JBL we upgraded his speakers to 5 1/4 Infinity's...even though that was a HUGE upgrade from the stock speaker, it had to get more.
We picked up ARC Audio awhile back, and the KS125.2 Mini is perfect for Harley's. So we upgraded to it and a pair of KS6026 6.5's. Oh, and this job is full solder.
Tapped to the factory outputs and connected to the high-level inputs on the KS125.2 mini.
All mounted up and ready to ride.
The ARC KS6062's sounded great and were an amazing upgrade from the Infinity 5 1/4's, but it they bottomed out a little too easy and didn't have enough midbass. Far better than original, but hey, you can always go bigger!
So, we pulled the Arc 6.5's and grabbed a set of DD CX6.5's.
The final product.
Midbass is SICK and they are clean...much better than I thought they would be thru the high-level inputs. The DD's can handle alot more power than the ARC's. This thing sounds great now, better than the front stage in most cars around here.
He rode the bike to work the next day, said they are clean and clear even over wind noise at 80mph.
He is on the way to the Louisiana Harley rally next week, I'm sure plenty of people will get a DD/Arc demo soon.
A whole new market segment for us here at Desiard St. Pawn and Car Audio will be out in force this Spring!
Wow. It is an entirely different market and application to say the least on cycles. Been riding for 20 years myself.
My question is how hard is it to upgrade the charging/storage system on cycles? With cars you have more room for batteries and such. It must pose a different challenge all together.
Nice install. Being as there is no sub, the charging system should handle a speaker amp easy. Now if you added a sub then throw a few kenetics in the saddle bags with a small mono amp like a MMats D200hc
Then by all means have at it lol. I was just curious about the bike's smaller charging system as compared to what we normally see here in "Mobile audio".
