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Despite my infatuation with my fat tire, no windshield, lowered, chopper looking 8-Ball, I am not a skull cap rider and enjoy what technology has to offer for motorcycle enthusiasts.
I recently purchased (birthday present from my wife) a pair of Midland BT2 Bluetooth headphones. I love to hear my tunes when I ride, but it a little "modification" of what the Midland research and development team thought were the perfect wireless devices.
(Note: I have to modify everything)
The first thing I did was take a knife and cut those sorry, treble only, speakers out of the $300 units. My wife almost passed out. After an anxious wait for the UPS guy, he finally delivered the Panasonic low bass response headphones I purchased @ Ebay. I carefully removed the headloop from the ear cups and cut the wires out of the housing. These are Over the Ear type head phones so they are rather large.
I soldered the wires to the BT2's with detachable 1/8 inch male on the ear cups and a female adapter that goes to the BT2 wires. This way I can unplug the BT2 and run an 1/8th female to male from my MP3 player directly to my headphones with no need for the BT2's to be attached.
I also removed the Ear and Cheek padding from my helmet. I placed some velcro on back of the ear cups and they now stick perfectly to my chin strap (inside the helmet) and to the existing padding in the mid region of the helmet.
The headphone over ear cups now serve 2 purposes...
1: My slash down pipes are loud, REALLY LOUD, so with my invisible house headphones on underneath my helmet, I cut the pipe noise down dramatically while still being able to hear ambient noises, like (ambulance) sirens. The Ear Cups are really comfortable by the way, with their thick soft cushion that seals comfortably around the ear.
2: The factory Midland BT2 28mm speaker driver, velcro backed, NON over the ear speakers suck - plain and simple. They are not comfortable, and they produce the most ear piercing high end treble sound you have ever heard. Imagine listening to Van Halen's "Jump" from the 1984 album on a cellphone at twice the volume - it horrible.
When you want to hear music, you want to hear it like it is played, or at LEAST relatively similar. With my modified Panasonic over the ear headphones with 40 mm drivers (on a motorcycle with loud pipes) the experience is much MUCH better than with the factory BT2's. Don't get me wrong, it's not like sitting in a theater by any means, but at least you can hear the bass notes when they are played. You just get to enjoy those big bass notes along with 1500 cc's of roaring thunder.
I recently purchased (birthday present from my wife) a pair of Midland BT2 Bluetooth headphones. I love to hear my tunes when I ride, but it a little "modification" of what the Midland research and development team thought were the perfect wireless devices.
(Note: I have to modify everything)
The first thing I did was take a knife and cut those sorry, treble only, speakers out of the $300 units. My wife almost passed out. After an anxious wait for the UPS guy, he finally delivered the Panasonic low bass response headphones I purchased @ Ebay. I carefully removed the headloop from the ear cups and cut the wires out of the housing. These are Over the Ear type head phones so they are rather large.
I soldered the wires to the BT2's with detachable 1/8 inch male on the ear cups and a female adapter that goes to the BT2 wires. This way I can unplug the BT2 and run an 1/8th female to male from my MP3 player directly to my headphones with no need for the BT2's to be attached.
I also removed the Ear and Cheek padding from my helmet. I placed some velcro on back of the ear cups and they now stick perfectly to my chin strap (inside the helmet) and to the existing padding in the mid region of the helmet.
The headphone over ear cups now serve 2 purposes...
1: My slash down pipes are loud, REALLY LOUD, so with my invisible house headphones on underneath my helmet, I cut the pipe noise down dramatically while still being able to hear ambient noises, like (ambulance) sirens. The Ear Cups are really comfortable by the way, with their thick soft cushion that seals comfortably around the ear.
2: The factory Midland BT2 28mm speaker driver, velcro backed, NON over the ear speakers suck - plain and simple. They are not comfortable, and they produce the most ear piercing high end treble sound you have ever heard. Imagine listening to Van Halen's "Jump" from the 1984 album on a cellphone at twice the volume - it horrible.
When you want to hear music, you want to hear it like it is played, or at LEAST relatively similar. With my modified Panasonic over the ear headphones with 40 mm drivers (on a motorcycle with loud pipes) the experience is much MUCH better than with the factory BT2's. Don't get me wrong, it's not like sitting in a theater by any means, but at least you can hear the bass notes when they are played. You just get to enjoy those big bass notes along with 1500 cc's of roaring thunder.
