Shure se215 earphones...

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Afternoon all, I just bought some Shure se215 earphones, £75. I bought them for my very long 3,000 mile trip around Europe. I'm going on my own so I wanted something to plug into my ears. My sat nav outputs music via bluetooth to my Scala headset, but the quality is dire at best. It's just background noise for the commutes.

So, the above earphones have a negative profile in the ear and also foam tips, so they act just like normal foam ear plugs. And even have the same noise cancelling rating (37dB)! So I'm hoping that I won't even have to turn the volume up much so I can still hear the important stuff (sirens, beeps etc) just like you can with plugs.

Has anyone used these before in a motorcycle helmet? Or any experience with earphones like them?

Also... How on earth am I going to make a playlist to last around 50 hours of riding! Probably more!
 
unKle said:
Are you using the stock earphones/speakers that came with the scala?
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Yea, it's not the speakers though, it's the quality over AD2P (Bluetooth), it's just an awful recoded bit rate. Great between headsets and the voice instructions/phone call is great. But audio over AD2P is pointless.
 
Not used them myself, but they're number 1 on my list to replace my crappy sennheiser cx475 earphones that either fall out or hurt after 10 minutes and block out zero noise. I ride with moldex spark plug earplugs all the time, only using headphones for sat nav voice.

After doing a fair bit of research they come up as the most comfotable in a helmet with decent noise blocking too, there's not many around with the same shape.
 
I Use Scala M10 headset with my own Sound Magic E30's head phones with sponge tips... epic noise reduction and sound/music. As in outside noises... weirdly you can hear everything just not crappy wind noise... Spotify is your friend... I've got days of music and playlists on my HTC M8, Tablet which I use on the bike as a sat nav as well.
 
I have these and find them a pain in the bum for helmets as you can't take them off your ears before removing the helmet and they often get caught!

I use E10's with triple flange tips instead.
 
Kreeeee said:
I have these and find them a pain in the bum for helmets as you can't take them off your ears before removing the helmet and they often get caught!

I use E10's with triple flange tips instead.
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It's late... So I might be misreading. Why would you take them off before removing your helmet??

Once on, did you have an issue with them?

My HELMET (AGV Ti-Tech) has lining that touches all of my ear. With the Scala speakers in. They touch as well. No pressure. But there is no room for protuding earphones. I've tried several. And the se215's are the closest I can find to being a negative profile AND offer the same 37dB noise cancellation as normal foam plugs.
 
I use custom moulded earplugs with embedded earphones. They are great, but expensive. And when one side stopped working recently, out of warranty was fifty quid to fix :(.
 
I use a fairly cheap pair of altec lansing noise isolating buds, they do work and cancel out a fair amount of the road/wind noise but obviously not to the degree a properly inserted decent pair of ear plugs would.

I only ever wear one in at a time and an ear plug in the other ear otherwise I tend to feel a bit unsafe/like I may miss important noises etc.
 
NO REGRETS!

Sweet mother of god they are good!

They fit perfectly, block out the same, if not more noise than standard earplugs. The music is so brilliantly smooth and the bass is epic.

Wind noise is only slight at over 65mph. But even at 100mph+ the music is still clear over the wind.

Just wow... I can't wait to get some decent playlists for the Alps now :D
 
They're great earphones indeed. My main issue with helmets is that when I remove the helmet my earphones often get caught which is rather painful on my ears.
 
Kreeeee said:
They're great earphones indeed. My main issue with helmets is that when I remove the helmet my earphones often get caught which is rather painful on my ears.
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Mine get caught, it's not painful but I have to remove them entirely as they just get pulled out.
 
For that price you might as well go the whole hog and get some custom fit plugs with sound drivers in them, about £120 i think.
 
agnes said:
It's late... So I might be misreading. Why would you take them off before removing your helmet??
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causae ear phones can rag the crap out of you head as you rake the helmet off and they get dragged over your face/ears.

being able to quickly pluck them out first is helpful.

for riding i've found the cheapest basic 8 quid jobbies from the supermarket work best strangely.

i always ask for the free headphones people get with anything, as they get ****ed fairly quickly in the wind and the rain.
 
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