So why now ? 2-3 yrs ago you guys were pushing the DSR1 w/ your custom flash ! Am I not getting all the benefits of what you promoted or do I need to flash radio now ? 3 yrs later! Serious question ...
Excellent question! The Harley audio industry is always evolving and American Hard Bag is always uncovering the best possible solutions. You got the good stuff and we have found a way to make it better. 2-3 years ago it was not physically possible for us to loan or rent these tools because TechnoResearch did not have a licensing program that would allow this to happen. As you know the DSR1 is a wildly popular DSP solution for Harley radio integration. This was not the case though when the DSR1 first hit the market. Rockford Fosgate *never intended* the DSR1 to be used in Harley applications. Rockford support used to tell our customers that we had sold them the wrong product!😲 Rockford was not aware that American Hard Bag had developed plug and play wire harnesses which accounted for the radios required output load and that we had also developed equalization tunes that accounted for the radios dynamic volume dependent equalization. That's what you have. Fast forward to today and tens of thousands of these have been used in bikes with wild success and Rockford now fully embraces the idea of these units in their own kits. American Hard Bag has been the largest single retailer of DSR1s for years now and we still are. For years though many of our customers struggled to gain access to TechnoResearches flash tools because they had to find a shop with the tool and not everyone lives near a shop with the tool. Additionally many shops do not understand how to properly configure the flash. The best solution for many people was to use the equalization power of the DSR1 to account for the radios baked in output equalizer. So we developed several solid DSR1 setup files that the entire Harley industry now uses. If you found 10 retailers today that offer a DSR1 tune for Harley, 9.5 of those would be a copy of a flash I personally wrote. I believed so strongly in the effectiveness and importance of a good radio counter tune on a DSR1 that we freely distributed them to all of our competitors as well as our customers. The best possible solution has always been a proper flash and equalization from a good DSP like the DSR1. And that is still the case. What changed the game was covid and our strong relationship with TechnoResearch. Due to Covid there were major product shortages and TechnoResearch reached out to us in an effort to collaborate on a creative solution. The result was our new rental and loan programs. By renting and loaning these tools we were able to provide the same service at a fraction of the cost and also not extinguish the few flash tools left on the planet. Now if you really want to push what can be done with your audio system you should get the proper radio flash and also use one of our new DSR1 tunes that are speaker specific and also radio flash specific. These new tunes account for may very advanced variables like parametric equalization, electronic phase shifts, and digital time alignment. The quest for sound is endless. And that's why I love it. It can always be improved upon.
If I buy this tool can I use it on multiple Harley’s? I have a shop and would love this option
So why now ? 2-3 yrs ago you guys were pushing the DSR1 w/ your custom flash ! Am I not getting all the benefits of what you promoted or do I need to flash radio now ? 3 yrs later! Serious question ...
Excellent question! The Harley audio industry is always evolving and American Hard Bag is always uncovering the best possible solutions. You got the good stuff and we have found a way to make it better. 2-3 years ago it was not physically possible for us to loan or rent these tools because TechnoResearch did not have a licensing program that would allow this to happen. As you know the DSR1 is a wildly popular DSP solution for Harley radio integration. This was not the case though when the DSR1 first hit the market. Rockford Fosgate *never intended* the DSR1 to be used in Harley applications. Rockford support used to tell our customers that we had sold them the wrong product!😲 Rockford was not aware that American Hard Bag had developed plug and play wire harnesses which accounted for the radios required output load and that we had also developed equalization tunes that accounted for the radios dynamic volume dependent equalization. That's what you have. Fast forward to today and tens of thousands of these have been used in bikes with wild success and Rockford now fully embraces the idea of these units in their own kits. American Hard Bag has been the largest single retailer of DSR1s for years now and we still are. For years though many of our customers struggled to gain access to TechnoResearches flash tools because they had to find a shop with the tool and not everyone lives near a shop with the tool. Additionally many shops do not understand how to properly configure the flash. The best solution for many people was to use the equalization power of the DSR1 to account for the radios baked in output equalizer. So we developed several solid DSR1 setup files that the entire Harley industry now uses. If you found 10 retailers today that offer a DSR1 tune for Harley, 9.5 of those would be a copy of a flash I personally wrote. I believed so strongly in the effectiveness and importance of a good radio counter tune on a DSR1 that we freely distributed them to all of our competitors as well as our customers.
The best possible solution has always been a proper flash and equalization from a good DSP like the DSR1. And that is still the case. What changed the game was covid and our strong relationship with TechnoResearch. Due to Covid there were major product shortages and TechnoResearch reached out to us in an effort to collaborate on a creative solution. The result was our new rental and loan programs. By renting and loaning these tools we were able to provide the same service at a fraction of the cost and also not extinguish the few flash tools left on the planet.
Now if you really want to push what can be done with your audio system you should get the proper radio flash and also use one of our new DSR1 tunes that are speaker specific and also radio flash specific. These new tunes account for may very advanced variables like parametric equalization, electronic phase shifts, and digital time alignment. The quest for sound is endless. And that's why I love it. It can always be improved upon.