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BillyBumbler · 03-22-2006, 04:01 AM

I have the Chatterbox. As an intercom it works and the sound quality seems fine to me...until you get to cruising speed. Especially when you have a set of loud pipes. The wind plus the exhaust and you find yourself yelling to be heard. As a way of listening to your MP3 player through the audio jack it sucks though. The sound quality is bad (it seems to run the signal through it's own amplifier that doesn't really amplify the sound, just makes it sound bad). It was a novelty item me and the wife tried out. We may still use it for long rides, but for anything else the dangling wires aren't worth the hassle. Plus then you run the danger of having a backseat driver. Something that should never ever happen on a bike.

**drgibson** · 03-22-2006, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnthmn44

Does anyone have the open faced chatterbox headset in a full face helmet? This was a recommendation that was on another forum but if it does not work well I may reconsider buying a chatterbox.

I have a friend that uses the open face mic in a modular helmet and his works fine.

The Teach · 03-22-2006, 12:31 PM

I've been recently looking into the Nolan N102 n-com helmet with bluetooth. It has a aux jack for mp3 and the bluetooth can sync to another bluetooth passenger helmet, phone, or GPS. Basically any bluetooth device. It's looking like a sweet system and I like the fact that they have earbuds for both sides for stereo sound.

Now if I could only find a US distributor that actually sells that model.

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03-22-2006, 04:01 AM	#21 (permalink)
BillyBumbler Kickstand Operator Joined: Oct 2005 Bike: 2005 M50 Black Location: Bakersfield, CA Posts: 268	I have the Chatterbox. As an intercom it works and the sound quality seems fine to me...until you get to cruising speed. Especially when you have a set of loud pipes. The wind plus the exhaust and you find yourself yelling to be heard. As a way of listening to your MP3 player through the audio jack it sucks though. The sound quality is bad (it seems to run the signal through it's own amplifier that doesn't really amplify the sound, just makes it sound bad). It was a novelty item me and the wife tried out. We may still use it for long rides, but for anything else the dangling wires aren't worth the hassle. Plus then you run the danger of having a backseat driver. Something that should never ever happen on a bike.

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