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GL1500 Radio Help. Any Professional Radio Installers Out Here?

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Without going into too much detail, I would like to know if there is a female adapter for the main connector that plugs into the radio. I know that Scosche and Metra make all different configurations. The main harness is a white 18 pin connector. It is a two row setup with 2 notches in the bottom and the 2 top corners ar angled. Here is the configuration but it is not drawn to scale: http://www.gwrra-mi.org/chapter/B/Library/Honda%20Goldwing%20GL1500%20Radio%20External%20Wiring%20Diagram.pdf

I am trying to keep from hacking into the main harness. I want to keep the factory wiring intact. If anyone has any ideas, I would be grateful.
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I thought the speakers on my '98 were blown, the audio was so bad while riding it.

Then after I got home, I started fooling with it in the garage and it sounds good. The CD is working good, and I have local stations that don't fade away while I am moving.

So, yesterday off I went for a road test... And yep, got up over about 50 mph and zonk! no more nice audio, it went all to pot. Turned up the volume and still a mess.

I don't know what kind of speakers I had in my '94 1500, but I listened to that radio at speeds up to 80 mph without any problems. Not so with this '98 1500.

So, something surely is different with the speakers, and just maybe with the wrong radio that is in it now.

I just received last evening the SE radio from you, and I need now to go about installing it and see if that fixes the problem.

If not, then a new speaker setup is in order.
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Neal, distortion has nothing to do with the AVC function.

What I said, and what is happening, is at speeds above 50 mph or so, the speakers go into distortion if I turn the volume up loud enough to hear the audio.

Were an AVC available in this particular radio, the distortion would occur automatically with an increase in speed because the AVC circuits would be turning up the volume to compensation for wind noise.

I will be finding out what is wrong here very soon now. I've been working on radios and audio amplifiers and speaker systems since 1958. I don't think I am confused as to what is going on.
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