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[jamesm]

If I'm going on a long drive, I wear high fidelity earplugs made for musicians. 21db of noise reduction with very little reduction in intelligibility.

 

[Gtstorey]

If I'm going on a long drive, I wear high fidelity earplugs made for musicians. 21db of noise reduction with very little reduction in intelligibility.

They sounds like that might be helpful for those trying to listen to speakers while driving?

 

[jamesm]

They sounds like that might be helpful for those trying to listen to speakers while driving?

1000%. Makes a ton of difference. They mainly cut down the engine and wind noise. You can hear your passenger if you are chatting or you can hear your music playing.

 

[PaulPerger]

If I'm going on a long drive, I wear high fidelity earplugs made for musicians. 21db of noise reduction with very little reduction in intelligibility.

1000%. Makes a ton of difference. They mainly cut down the engine and wind noise. You can hear your passenger if you are chatting or you can hear your music playing.

Do you have a link or a brand name?

 

[jamesm]

Heh... Let the jokes begin...

https://www.amazon.com/Eargasm-Musicians-Motorcycles-Sensitivity-Conditions/dp/B075SJ3Y8M/

 

[baustin]

Heh... Let the jokes begin...

https://www.amazon.com/Eargasm-Musicians-Motorcycles-Sensitivity-Conditions/dp/B075SJ3Y8M/

There are motorcycle oriented earplugs that are very similar. I've got 2 brands to try and they do seem to to be decent so far. Fortunately the names are more standard: Alpine Motosafe and NoNoise.

Same idea, talking frequencies pass through but higher and lower frequencies get attenuated. I can wear them in my helmet and hear my music just fine, same for any necessary car noises around me since they are made for on the road and track. But they do a nice job of cutting the wind and engine noise.

I also have a system similar to the Cardo packtalk, I think my is HJC 20B Bluetooth. Phone, Bluetooth, music in my helmet. When I talk on the phone the other people don't even know I'm driving unless I really accelerate hard. Sound quality is really pretty nice. Voice controls work decent too. It's made by Sena, same brand that does a lot of the motorcycle comms.

 

[Adam in CLE]

Very crappy. It did work, but was worse quality than the built in speaker of a mid range smart phone. Plenty of volume, but zero fidelity.

Thanks!

 

[RITDR]

I just recently finished up adding a stereo into my Goblin. Used a NVX Bluetooth receiver as a head unit. I used the footwell cover and built in a fiberglass box for a 10” sub above the passenger foot area, and added 5.25” speakers into the sides of the cover. I 3D printed some pods to protect the back side of the speakers and seal them off more for better mid-bass response. The tweeters were mounted to the top of the cover and face the driver and passenger, so the sound is pretty clear.
I mounted a 2000w marine amp behind the driver seat, and was able to use banana connections to make the cover and speakers removable if needed.
Overall it turned out pretty well, and sounds great for in-town drives. At 55 you can still hear the radio, but it does have to be turned up quite a bit more due to road and wind noise. At highway speed the sound really gets drowned out, and going louder with the stereo is probably not something I’d want to listen to for a multi-hour drive.

 

[Gtstorey]

It would be interesting to see what change the high fidelity earplugs mentioned above would make at highway speeds.

 

[PaulPerger]

I just recently finished up adding a stereo into my Goblin. Used a NVX Bluetooth receiver as a head unit. I used the footwell cover and built in a fiberglass box for a 10” sub above the passenger foot area, and added 5.25” speakers into the sides of the cover. I 3D printed some pods to protect the back side of the speakers and seal them off more for better mid-bass response. The tweeters were mounted to the top of the cover and face the driver and passenger, so the sound is pretty clear.
I mounted a 2000w marine amp behind the driver seat, and was able to use banana connections to make the cover and speakers removable if needed.
Overall it turned out pretty well, and sounds great for in-town drives. At 55 you can still hear the radio, but it does have to be turned up quite a bit more due to road and wind noise. At highway speed the sound really gets drowned out, and going louder with the stereo is probably not something I’d want to listen to for a multi-hour drive.

So, does the hood fit over that box? This looks great. Did you make a mold? Or is this purely one off craftsmanship?

 

[RITDR]

So, does the hood fit over that box? This looks great. Did you make a mold? Or is this purely one off craftsmanship?

Thanks Paul.
There is no mold for this. I just built walls that close-matched the profile of the footwell cover, and then used fiberglass to mold it to the cover.

Yeah, the hood does still fit over the footwell cover. There is maybe 1.5” of clearance between the hood and the covers over the 5.25” speaker pods. The clearance to the tweeter pods is tighter, but there is still clearance there.

One thing to note for the tweeter clearance is that my hood is raised up about an once at the back of the hood, which adds clearance for these speakers and my gauge mount.

 

[Adam in CLE]

Looks awesome. Can't wait to hear it live.

 

[Chris_WNC]

Anything new happening in this area? My stupid Bluetooth speaker pods died on me after a few months of use. I’m missing having music when driving.

 

[Markm]

Anything new happening in this area? My stupid Bluetooth speaker pods died on me after a few months of use. I’m missing having music when driving.

I put in some motorcycle Bluetooth speakers from autozone and they work ok but can barely hear them at highway speeds. I bought a Bluetooth receiver, shallow mount marine speakers and a self powered 10” sub and will be upgrading the wife’s pretty soon. I’m going to make a triangle mounting plate to have them flush mounted between the tubes and exterior side panels

 

[Chris_WNC]

I need to check out those BT receivers. I kind of sort of looked at them last year but didn't commit to anything.
I can probably save the actual speaker pod "containers" and add some decent 6.5's and possibly add a small bazooka tube between the seats or up under the hood. BT receiver, a small amp, and those speakers might work ok and still be somewhat hidden.

 

[Rttoys]

Cardo in the helmet still nice and loud as can be

 

[Chris_WNC]

I fix'd it.
I gutted the Rockville pods. The electronics portion was about half the size of my iPhone. lol. I trashed that and the speakers and just kept the plastic pods. Cerwin-Vega 6.5's mounted right up. I got a Boss "marine" type receiver for the head unit. Lots of inputs. Cool video screen. Water resistant.

Pods remounted in the same forward facing orientation as before.

I used a Ram Mount arm and one of the universal tube clamps to sort of gooseneck mount the Boss reciever down from the center tube behind the instrument cluster. I used black vet wrap to clean up and hide the wiring.

Sounds good enough that I'm going to skip the Bazooka tube for a while.

 

[LLBenJ]

I'm running the NOAM NUTV5 for the second season and really enjoying it. I placed the sub behind the passenger seat and head unit near the ignition. The older head unit is round and fits perfectly in a 3 inch intake tube so I used that to suspend it from the frame.

 

[comegetjoe]

Was looking this over again, one of my favorites on here.