New Speakers

[trmn8r]

just ordered a set of these.


Have been wanting to upgrade to a set of Hogtunes or similar, searched around Crutchfields and found these three pairs... then got to searching on google for each speaker and settled on these.

don't know how much better they will sound than stock but got to be better. If they sound good will probably do rear speakers next.

[TalonChief]

Do those have any sort of cross-over built in?

Edit: Nebbermind--saw the capacitor on one of the pics at Crutchfields.

[trmn8r]

yea they do I guess. I'm pretty much clueless on speakers though... guess the crossover is a good thing? we'll see. Figured for about $60 shipped they would be worth a try. They look tall front to back, hope they fit in fairing. it says top mount depth 2 5/16" sounds like that should fit to me if thats the hight of the total speaker. Guess I'll find out in a few days.

[TalonChief]

Speakers of different sizes are optimized to produce sounds of different wavelengths, e.g. woofers = bass = low freq = long wavelength. You don't want bass going to a tweeter because the dome is too small to accurately produce the wave, so you get distortion--the opposite is true with high freqs to a woofer.

A capacitor or inductor (or maybe both) of the proper value inserted in line with a speaker will keep frequencies you don't want produced there from getting to them.

[trmn8r]

ok I see, keeps the lows where they belong and the highs where they belong. Well just hope they fit... guess I should have went out and popped off outer fairing and tried to measure first but didn't. The magnets don't look any bigger than Pez's Hogtunes I don't think. Gotta be better than stock is all I know.

[TalonChief]

I didn't pay a whole lot of attention when I had mine off the other week, but I believe there's a good deal of room to work with.