For all those people who are bothered by wearing earbuds under a helmet you might want to try what I did years ago for my snowmobile helmet. I bought one of those $10 woven beanie winter hats w/built in bluetooth speakers and transfered them to my helmet. That was 4 years ago and they still work perfectly.
My amazon order just arrived, and these 20 dollar IEM's are great. better than my 170$ pair of beats iem's. my issue with those is they don't get nearly as loud, this gets way to loud and they seem to fit better. thanks for the video I'm happy. the only thing that's a downside is when listening to say an audio book, you hear some frequency noise but it's not over bearing.
Hey man just wanted to say what’s up..was watching random bike videos…I grew up in Detroit and I’m a major fan of House music….you spun at the very first event I went to in the 90s…. You played with boomer that night, I’m not sure if terry mullan played ( he had a rough stretch in those days with no shows) but anyways glad to see you’re still up and on 2s..I still jam out to some of you and boomers tracks to these days
Oh man! That's awesome! I love hearing this stuff!! Thanks for the message that means a lot. And Boomer and Terry are awesome folks. Boomers daughter Sasha is a monster MMA girl... life is crazy!! Thanks for the comment! Hope ya stick around, we got lots of fun stuff planned!
Gotta love IEMs... I had a pair of Etymotic ER6i for more than a decade which were excellent as a noise isolating IEM. Trying out the new style IEMs since those ER6i's fell apart, stumbled on a guy called Crinicle who does IEM reviews and he has a $25 recommended buy that's simply blowing me away with the quality (7z zero 2 IIRC). Haven't tried it in the helmet yet though, tend to default to earplugs for anything under an hour and haven't had time for longer than that. Enjoy the trip, but get off the BRP and explore the side roads, they're more enjoyable to ride than the constantly clogged, constant 45 zone.
The Etymotic ER6 were the first "higher end" IEMs that I tried after Koss "The Plug". I preferred the Plug, or anything else with a dynamic driver. I've mostly stuck with Future Sonics, and can't stand armature drivers (I found he ER6 extremely uncomfortable to wear and extremely shrill-sounding). Much as I'd love to get some custom IEMs (or at least custom earplugs), the price is pretty crazy, and I'd be concerned about ruining $1000 IEMs with the vibrations of my old rigid-mount Sportster. Who knows, maybe some cheap, flush-mounting universal IEMs will do the trick while keeping a better seal in my ears...
Thanks man, gave you a sub. These headphones have no right to be as good as they are. I went with the smaller Anker Soundsync A3352 bluetooth receiver. Are you just keeping the receiver in your pocket and running the IEMs from your pocket to the helmet?
I'd have to see if the speakers for my Sena allow enough room for these kind of IEMs. The existing IEMs that I own would definitely stick out too far, but I don't have any of the Shure-style ones. $20 is reasonable enough a price for a blind buy, even if the sound isn't great. I also wonder if they might stay in my ears better than my Earpeace earplugs have been doing.
I used this set up on my riding mower last night and even without a helmet to hold them in place, they were awesome. I can't believe how much better these are just in general use than ear buds!
Getting the in ear monitors that you mentioned but selecting the usb c ones as I have a newer iPhone. Is there an amp like the one you mentioned that accepts usb c?
100%. Since they really fit "into" your ear they pretty much seal it. So if you decide to forgo music for a while, the road and wind noise is minimized by like 75%.
Great practical advice, but beware, this is Illegal in California and some other states. You cannot wear headphones while riding, which is why "headset" kits are detached speakers affixed to the helmet to circumvent them being considered headphones/earphones.
@Jon-gm9qd also, unless one is a moron, it's easy to conceal even if you take off your helmet. But I understand some people are 100% to the letter of the law.
got a set, and sound quality is great, and i can even smoosh them into my Bell helmet, but there is no getting it off without jamming my fingers between the cheekpads to dislodge the IEMs so they fall into the cheekpad void space made for speakers to fit, and then i can pull the lid off. so unless i was going a long way before i had to wrestle my helmet off, these wouldnt be worth the hassle. other helmets & different head shapes might work better than what i've got. still, otherwise happy with the IEMs... 👍
Man, I'm on my trip right now and it's changed my life. And I'm not having any issues, I do have a modular helmet, so I open the front and slide it off no issues. For my personally this is game changing, the sound is so much better than anything else I have ever used on a motorcycle in 35 years.
Q: can i still connect a wireless mic as a separate unit with this setup and how? I also want to be able to do some voice memo’s or even calls if possible…
Probably not, but fear not, I just bought another pair that have 4 drivers per ear piece and has a mic built into it. Just look up in ear monitors with mic. 🤘
@@concord0067 what i now did and it works really wel is that i stuck the little mic with some sticky tape on the inside of the windshield. I tested the recording of me talking while driving and it does the job really well.
Are they in the right direction? They should fit inside your ear. It's not hard to have them in the wrong ear, they still feel right, but stick out weird.
So the phone is connected to the wireless amp? I’ve got a 1250 GSA, I assume I’d connect the amp to the bike like a normal Sena or Cardo to have the audio go from my phone, through the bike, and to my ears?
Yes sir, the Amp is a blue tooth receiver. It pairs with your phone. So monitors plug into Amp, Amp goes in jacket pocket, phone stays on bar mount. It's just for 1 way audio. No mic. But nav instructions and music come through perfectly. I'm at 1800 miles for the last 5 days, all using this system and it's amazing. I keep the volume just loud enough to give me crystal clear music and it completely takes away the road and bike noise. We rode 300 miles of blue ridge yesterday and with the he music it was amazing. 👍
I’ll look into this, thanks! Safe travels and can’t wait to hear about this trip on the podcast. Luckily I’m at the level to get the jokes and punchlines too ;)
i use bluetooth headphones but i can’t hear outside noise which is why i came by this and trying to find good helmet speakers that don’t sound bad that i can turn down if i need to hear like a senna do you have any recommendations?
I find these do a good job of blocking out road noise and providing a clean signal of music, that because it's so clean and thr outside sound is tampered, I ride with thr music at a lower volume and I can totally hear horns, sirens, loud vehicals etc. But all of my comes don't use a standard 1/8" jack, so i can't use these for that.
No way for me. There’s no way the earbuds stay in my ears as I put on my Arai. Yanks them out every time. Good thing I didn’t buy the amp too. At least I “just” wasted 23 bucks and not more.
Put your finger over the IEM and hold them as you slide the neck roll over your ears, one at a time, and just get it over it and do the next one. Also, the IEM should fit flush with your ear, you may have to turn them a bit, but eventually you can sense when they are right, My new Scorpion Helmet is WAY tighter than my Shoes or Arai helmet and I have no problems using the finger hold method. Hope that helps!
@@MotoStoriesandmore Thank you for the advice but it was too painful for me. Haha. As soon as I got one ear under the neckroll like you mentioned and I went to do the other side, it started pushing the other side too much on my ear painfully. Worth a try though and thanks again. I’m glad it works for you and others.
Yeah, I slide my finger in over it, and slide the helmet off each ear... same with going on with my new tighter helmet.. helps a lot. Just throw your index finger on the face of the IEM, and slide the foam roll over your finger. 60% of the time, it works all the time. :D
For all those people who are bothered by wearing earbuds under a helmet you might want to try what I did years ago for my snowmobile helmet. I bought one of those $10 woven beanie winter hats w/built in bluetooth speakers and transfered them to my helmet. That was 4 years ago and they still work perfectly.
Awesome alternative. 👍
@@MotoStoriesandmore The key is buying the ones with the biggest battery capacity. They vary but that doesn't make the setup any bulkier.
just got this exact set up.....and man.....i have tried them all..... this is the BEST by far over anything out there.....thank you!!!!
Everytime I ride with em, I'm still blown away.
The good thing about those in ear monitors they help to reduce noise, so it kills some of the helment noise. Great stuff.
100% 👌
Thank you for the video and the links. They were extremely helpful and I just placed my order for your set-up. Looking forward to trying these out!
Awesome! Enjoy the tunes!!!!
Great Video! Subscribed!
Ty! 🤘
I really really appreciate the great recommendation, man these are awesome !!
I'm glad you like them! I still use them all the time. Even just cutting grass on my riding mower, makes the time fly by. Thanks for the feedback. 👌
I just bought this same setup off Amazon. I need some music on those long distance rides. Thanks for the tip
My amazon order just arrived, and these 20 dollar IEM's are great. better than my 170$ pair of beats iem's. my issue with those is they don't get nearly as loud, this gets way to loud and they seem to fit better.
thanks for the video I'm happy. the only thing that's a downside is when listening to say an audio book, you hear some frequency noise but it's not over bearing.
🤘
@@JJiG Yeah they’re better than my $300 Sony earbuds. Crazy.
I'm very tempted with this setup. Enjoy your trip!
Not lying, it's Goooood.
Hey man just wanted to say what’s up..was watching random bike videos…I grew up in Detroit and I’m a major fan of House music….you spun at the very first event I went to in the 90s…. You played with boomer that night, I’m not sure if terry mullan played ( he had a rough stretch in those days with no shows) but anyways glad to see you’re still up and on 2s..I still jam out to some of you and boomers tracks to these days
Oh man! That's awesome! I love hearing this stuff!! Thanks for the message that means a lot. And Boomer and Terry are awesome folks. Boomers daughter Sasha is a monster MMA girl... life is crazy!! Thanks for the comment! Hope ya stick around, we got lots of fun stuff planned!
@@MotoStoriesandmore will do man...I e been out west since I got out of the navy in 2010.... I've been itching to visit the Midwest..I miss the people
@jasonhodgson2466 do it!
Gotta love IEMs... I had a pair of Etymotic ER6i for more than a decade which were excellent as a noise isolating IEM. Trying out the new style IEMs since those ER6i's fell apart, stumbled on a guy called Crinicle who does IEM reviews and he has a $25 recommended buy that's simply blowing me away with the quality (7z zero 2 IIRC). Haven't tried it in the helmet yet though, tend to default to earplugs for anything under an hour and haven't had time for longer than that.
Enjoy the trip, but get off the BRP and explore the side roads, they're more enjoyable to ride than the constantly clogged, constant 45 zone.
The Etymotic ER6 were the first "higher end" IEMs that I tried after Koss "The Plug". I preferred the Plug, or anything else with a dynamic driver. I've mostly stuck with Future Sonics, and can't stand armature drivers (I found he ER6 extremely uncomfortable to wear and extremely shrill-sounding). Much as I'd love to get some custom IEMs (or at least custom earplugs), the price is pretty crazy, and I'd be concerned about ruining $1000 IEMs with the vibrations of my old rigid-mount Sportster. Who knows, maybe some cheap, flush-mounting universal IEMs will do the trick while keeping a better seal in my ears...
Thank you for the tip! I'm going to try this out 🤘
Hell Yeah! Nice simple setup!
😁👌
Thanks man, gave you a sub. These headphones have no right to be as good as they are. I went with the smaller Anker Soundsync A3352 bluetooth receiver. Are you just keeping the receiver in your pocket and running the IEMs from your pocket to the helmet?
👌🤘
I'd have to see if the speakers for my Sena allow enough room for these kind of IEMs. The existing IEMs that I own would definitely stick out too far, but I don't have any of the Shure-style ones. $20 is reasonable enough a price for a blind buy, even if the sound isn't great. I also wonder if they might stay in my ears better than my Earpeace earplugs have been doing.
I used this set up on my riding mower last night and even without a helmet to hold them in place, they were awesome. I can't believe how much better these are just in general use than ear buds!
Bought, new helmet on way so will try your alternative 👍👍
Hope you like iem! I'm so stoked on these! (or any variant of I.E.M., as I said I have no deal with this brand, I'm just cheap HAHAHA and they rock!)
Getting the in ear monitors that you mentioned but selecting the usb c ones as I have a newer iPhone. Is there an amp like the one you mentioned that accepts usb c?
Really cool, I want to try this set up. I’m concerned about wind and road noise doing hearing damage. Do these isolate noise at all?
100%. Since they really fit "into" your ear they pretty much seal it. So if you decide to forgo music for a while, the road and wind noise is minimized by like 75%.
@@MotoStoriesandmore excellent! Definitely giving them a try.
Great practical advice, but beware, this is Illegal in California and some other states. You cannot wear headphones while riding, which is why "headset" kits are detached speakers affixed to the helmet to circumvent them being considered headphones/earphones.
Yeah, I'd expect everyone to know local laws. But great point. Thank you. 👌
@@BobLogGaming everything is illegal in CA
@Jon-gm9qd also, unless one is a moron, it's easy to conceal even if you take off your helmet. But I understand some people are 100% to the letter of the law.
got a set, and sound quality is great,
and i can even smoosh them into my Bell helmet, but there is no getting it off without jamming my fingers between the cheekpads to dislodge the IEMs so they fall into the cheekpad void space made for speakers to fit, and then i can pull the lid off.
so unless i was going a long way before i had to wrestle my helmet off, these wouldnt be worth the hassle.
other helmets & different head shapes might work better than what i've got.
still, otherwise happy with the IEMs... 👍
Man, I'm on my trip right now and it's changed my life. And I'm not having any issues, I do have a modular helmet, so I open the front and slide it off no issues. For my personally this is game changing, the sound is so much better than anything else I have ever used on a motorcycle in 35 years.
@@MotoStoriesandmore - the sound really is outstanding. glad its workin out for you! i'm gonna keep trying to make it work... balaclava maybe... 👍
Q: can i still connect a wireless mic as a separate unit with this setup and how? I also want to be able to do some voice memo’s or even calls if possible…
Probably not, but fear not, I just bought another pair that have 4 drivers per ear piece and has a mic built into it. Just look up in ear monitors with mic. 🤘
@@MotoStoriesandmore yeah i ordered a pair with mic, would be interesting to see how the sound quality is while driving… thanks! 👌🏼
@@wimdutchdid you get a chance to try out the monitors with the mic? Very interested if it worked.
@@concord0067 yeah i did, haven’t fully tested it. the only problem is wind. So it need some kind of wind cover…
@@concord0067 what i now did and it works really wel is that i stuck the little mic with some sticky tape on the inside of the windshield. I tested the recording of me talking while driving and it does the job really well.
Saddly I bought some of these & they just didn't fit my ears & they felt terrible every time I put my helmet on 😕
Are they in the right direction? They should fit inside your ear. It's not hard to have them in the wrong ear, they still feel right, but stick out weird.
@@MotoStoriesandmore I'll check them again just in case I was having a grampar moment?
So the phone is connected to the wireless amp?
I’ve got a 1250 GSA, I assume I’d connect the amp to the bike like a normal Sena or Cardo to have the audio go from my phone, through the bike, and to my ears?
Yes sir, the Amp is a blue tooth receiver. It pairs with your phone. So monitors plug into Amp, Amp goes in jacket pocket, phone stays on bar mount. It's just for 1 way audio. No mic. But nav instructions and music come through perfectly. I'm at 1800 miles for the last 5 days, all using this system and it's amazing. I keep the volume just loud enough to give me crystal clear music and it completely takes away the road and bike noise. We rode 300 miles of blue ridge yesterday and with the he music it was amazing. 👍
I’ll look into this, thanks!
Safe travels and can’t wait to hear about this trip on the podcast. Luckily I’m at the level to get the jokes and punchlines too ;)
So the solution to wires to your phone is wires to another device that I would have to carry?
Yep, just a little Bluetooth receiver and Amp.
i use bluetooth headphones but i can’t hear outside noise which is why i came by this and trying to find good helmet speakers that don’t sound bad that i can turn down if i need to hear like a senna do you have any recommendations?
I find these do a good job of blocking out road noise and providing a clean signal of music, that because it's so clean and thr outside sound is tampered, I ride with thr music at a lower volume and I can totally hear horns, sirens, loud vehicals etc. But all of my comes don't use a standard 1/8" jack, so i can't use these for that.
Most expensive, quiet helmets are still in the 100 decibel range, this seems like a poor substitute for actual hearing protection.
OK.
Those are cool--but be aware that earbuds are illegal to use in many states when riding your motorcycle helmet!!
Good info. Always good to check!
So is riding over the speed limit....
No way for me. There’s no way the earbuds stay in my ears as I put on my Arai. Yanks them out every time. Good thing I didn’t buy the amp too. At least I “just” wasted 23 bucks and not more.
Put your finger over the IEM and hold them as you slide the neck roll over your ears, one at a time, and just get it over it and do the next one. Also, the IEM should fit flush with your ear, you may have to turn them a bit, but eventually you can sense when they are right, My new Scorpion Helmet is WAY tighter than my Shoes or Arai helmet and I have no problems using the finger hold method. Hope that helps!
@@MotoStoriesandmore Thank you for the advice but it was too painful for me. Haha. As soon as I got one ear under the neckroll like you mentioned and I went to do the other side, it started pushing the other side too much on my ear painfully. Worth a try though and thanks again. I’m glad it works for you and others.
got them sound really good but when i take my helmet off they rip my ears off
Yeah, I slide my finger in over it, and slide the helmet off each ear... same with going on with my new tighter helmet.. helps a lot. Just throw your index finger on the face of the IEM, and slide the foam roll over your finger. 60% of the time, it works all the time. :D
@@MotoStoriesandmore thanks ill give that a try