Pyle 400 Watt Weatherproof Motorcycle Speaker and Amplifier System w/ Two 2.25 Inch Waterproof Speakers, AUX IN- Handlebar Mount ATV Mini Stereo Audio Receiver Kit Set - Also for Marine Boat - PLMCA30

I normally do not like leaving feedback -- even if I buy something that does not turn out to be as good as it appeared. I feel that I did not do due diligence in my research. That being said, I must say, "I Love These Little Babies." I live in Italy and was having a time finding someone to install them that didn't want to charge me upwards of 3 times what I paid for them (exchange rate is 1.25 to the dollar). Now for the review. I installed them myself, in just about three hours. I wanted to ensure the install looked as professional as possible, and also was done safely. This included wrapping all the wires twice with electrical tape. I found a local car part store and bought a fuse tap (Highly recommended it). I went directly into the fuse box, using the closed side of my inition fuse so it comes on when I turn the bike on. By the way, I installed this unit on a 2009 Yamaha VStar 1100. Initially, when I finished and turned it on, it sounded pretty loud in my enclosed garage. However, when I got on the road I was disappointed that I could barely hear them at just over 45 MPH. When I got home, bummed out and planning on ordering the 800 watt system to replace this one, I remembered the 3.5 mm jack seemed slightly loose when I plug it into my IPod, so I attempted to push it in further -- which it did. Instantly, I noticed the difference in sound. Tomorrow will be a week that they have been installed, and now when I get home from work, I change over into my riding gear, start her up and ride around, with no where to go, just enjoying my tunes. As someone else noted, when you have your IPod (Mine, IPod Touch 4), turned up 3/4 of the way, the in-line volume control still plays pretty loudly even though it is turned all the way down. I have driven on the Autostrada (Europe) at about 80 MPH and can still here my music pretty well, with the volume on the IPod at about 3/4 and the in-line volume control cranked. All that said, I have various genres on my IPod (Classic R&B, Classic Rock, Jazz, Hip Hop, Rap, Country, etc...) and they all sound good. So, if you want a big bang for your buck, buy these little babies. I have played for several friends who ride and they wanted the link to where I bought them so they can buy a pair. Before the install, I used a pretty good pair of noise-cancelling hi-fi earbuds that when I had the music playing, I could not hear anything else -- even an ambulance right behind me (Can you say, D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S, OR JUST DUMB?). Glad I bought these. At the price I got them, thinking about buying another pair, just to have for later, if these ever have problems.Update all: I upgraded my speakers to the 800 watt pyle speakers and must say I am happier that a cat in a shoebox full of catnip. Only suggestion is for those that if you have the capability, solder your speaker wires to the old connectors. The clips on the 800 watt speakers are not the same and by cutting the wires, and having a very tight fit because of where I mounted the amp, I kept losing connecting everytime I zip-tied my wires.Once again, I am in Italy, and not only do I get to enjoy riding around Europe, but I get to hear my sounds in the process. Does it get any better?

Sounds pretty good for the price - my version 5 iPod works great with this setup. Volume button is very sensitive - maybe that is my negative. I read about all of the difficulties people had with this install and it made me nervous. Wow - a product made in China has poor installation instructions - and people are just figuring that out? Yeah, the instructions are poor but if you have any common sense at all, this isn't that difficult. My only problem was that most of the wires are too long - I have extra wire all over the place. DO NOT CUT THE WIRES!!!! Read the instructions - maybe a couple of times. Lay out the parts and read them again - pick up each part referenced and see if you can figure out where it goes. I put this system on a Harley Soft Tail - it was like it was made especially for my bike. Mount everything BEFORE you start to hook up any wires. You absolutely do not need to cut any wires - splices increase resistance - maybe that is why people are blowing speakers and amps. On an American bike - use the included connector on the front wiring harness plug under the seat to give you the power splice. DO NOT CUT AND SPLICE ANY WIRES. This was strictly plug and play and now the system is tied into your bike power system - if you turn the bike off, the system shuts off - no chance of it catching fire in your garage (really, you hooked it up so it caught fire??) I did it at the same time I hooked up a DC outlet for my Nav system - took about an hour to do it all. Use an old wire hanger to help get the wires under your tank. If you can't even put in a new outlet in your home, maybe you should have this done by a professional - I found it very easy.

Got the system in, looks good. Love the Amp configuration and size. Speakers are 2.25", not really big enough for the amp. I hook the system up on external power and everything worked great so I then took my bike apart and mounted it. It still sounded great and was happy. When I got a chance to ride after all the rained passed, one speaker "swelled" on my and not sound come out of it. Eventually the speaker went down in size but had a rattle to it. The sound from the speaker is not even 50% of the other speaker. After mounting everything I threw the box away. I check all wiring and all is good, not wires are smashed. I even went to the extent of putting an inline fuse just in case. For such small speakers the sound is heard from the one speaker even going 65 mph down the road. All I wanted was for the speaker to be replaced, not submit the whole unit. I will have to totally take my bike apart again and try to send back without the original box. I refuse to do so. I am going to buy 2 Shark speakers and install them and hope for the best. If that does not work then I'm ripping it all out and saving my money on the Harley Boom system. If you decide to go this route, just goto the website and buy individual components that way if one breaks they can replace the one item. The people selling these here are just selling box kits and know nothing about them.