It took me quite a bit to get these to the point where I was happy with them, but it was well worth it & I'll explain.
I have two ff helmets, one Schuberth C3-Pro & one Shoei Neotech. I love both helmets & installed the Sena 10u system in both helmets. The Sena system is awesome & looks/fits so well it looks like it came installed from the factory in both helmets.
I use a Verizon Galaxy Note 10 & play music from a Spotify playlist & have been trying to come up with a system that would sound halfway decent & also give me a full time cellular phone connection while cruising on my stroker Harley Roadking with fairly throaty Rinehart exhaust & no windshield. Both systems worked ok at slow speeds but got dramatically harder to hear as I reached highway cruising speeds. The Sena speakers work just fine for cell calls & stuff like GPS turn by turn directions but are really LAME for music. The volume is not high enough to hear music clearly at speed, & there is virtually no bass so the sound is very tinny & cheap sounding.
Since I prefer the Schuberth helmet over the Shoei, I decided to see what I could do about improving the music playback from that setup first. I had seen a YT video about replacing Sena speakers with the guts from a cheap set of headphones & tried that first. The Sena 10u speakers are not supposed to be replaceable, but I cut off the stock speakers & soldered & shrink tubed on the new set. That worked & was a mild improvement in the sound quality, but hardly worth the effort really.
I then started researching higher quality helmet speakers & kept coming up with the IASUS 3's. I had never heard of them, but figured I would give them a shot. I again cut off the existing speakers & carefully soldered on the new IASUS 3's. The Schuberth helmet has speaker pockets that are already dished out etc. so it is fairly simple to velcro any new speaker in place. I couldn't wait to try out the new arrangement which sounded great in my shop with no ambient noise, right after I got done with the wiring.
Things changed drastically when I got out on the road however. What sounded great in the shop sounded terrible at 65mph !! The volume was nowhere near loud enough & one speaker seemed louder than the other. I was so disgusted at that point that I just put the Schuberth aside & started wearing the Shoei with the stock Sena 10u system every day. It didn't sound very good, but at least it had slightly more volume & worked fairly well as long as my speed was under 70mph.
That was where I had left things until just recently. I had stumbled across a few more rave reviews of the IASUS & figured I would try messing with that setup some more as I had nothing to lose. I pulled the cheekpads out of the Schuberth & started messing with moving the speakers around to different locations. I quickly realized I was on to something as the sound was getting better & better with each change I made. I quickly realized the stock speaker cutouts where positioned nowhere near the center of my ears (they are up too high).
To make an already too long story shorter, after 1/2 a day of messing with things my sound is now phenomenal. I replaced my worn cheek pads with a new tighter fit set & then attached the IASUS to the inside of the new pads with heavy duty 3M double sided tape. I spaced them so they are just grazing my ears with the included foam discs covering them. When I took the first ride with the new setup, I was stunned at how good it sounded. The volume is so loud now I actually have to turn it down or it hurts my ears. I get a full sound with a surprising amount of bass & almost no wind noise whatever. After months of thinking the Sena was much too under powered to power these speaker correctly, I now realize that was dead wrong.
After riding with the new mods for a week or so, I swapped to the Shoei helmet to see the difference in sound. The difference is absolutely night & day, the Shoei now sounds absolutely horrible to me. I will shortly be ordering another set of the IASUS to go in that helmet too LOL.
~John
| Wireless Communication Technology | Wired |
|---|---|
| Special Feature | Lightweight |
| Included Components | Helmet speakers, 3M velcro stickers, velcro spacers, extension cable |
| Age Range (Description) | Adult |
| Material | kevlar |
| Specific Uses For Product | Music |
| Headphones Jack | 3.5 mm Jack |
| Ear Placement | On Ear |
| Impedance | 32 Ohm |
| Sensitivity | 125 dB |
| Control Type | Media Control |
| Cable Feature | Retractable |
| Item Weight | 1.7 Ounces |
| Unit Count | 1 Count |
| Style | XSound 2.1 |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Controller Type | App Control |
| Manufacturer | IASUS Concepts |
| Item Weight | 1.7 ounces |
| Product Dimensions | 1.77 x 1.77 x 0.51 inches |
| Country of Origin | China |
| Item model number | IAXS2-1 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Manufacturer Part Number | 4348466769 |
| Special Features | Lightweight |
