Arai TourX and Autocom

[doctorsmudge]

Hello everbodies,
looking for some advice. I have an early Arai Tour X. I also have an autocom. The head mic picks up a lot of wind noise from under the Arai chin bar above 60-70 mph. I need the vox turned up to near max to be usable, its not exactly seamless conversation and listening to mucis is a pain as the wind noise mutes the music at these speeds. I've checked with Arai and there is no chin bar insert on the earlier models which I'm sure would help enormously. I have a large wind sock over the mic which helped a bit but its still not right. I also keep the chin vent closed at all times which make virtually no difference anyway.
Any suggestions?

 

[Wizard]

Buy a new helmet for the first time in about nine years?

PTT switch for the Autocom

 

[doctorsmudge]

Smart Arse

The was far too clever an answer my friend. Thought about the press to talk but thats like a backwards step in my view. Is this a known problem with the early Tour X lids? Are the new ones any better?

 

[Wizard]

Common complaint. There is a thing Oxford do IIRC...... it's a skirt that fits round the bottom of the lid. Dunno if it'll fit a Tour X, so you'd need to check.
One other thing..... mount the mic as high up as you can, it does make a fair difference. That said, I still did away with VOX on my first TourX because it was far too much of a pain

 

[doctorsmudge]

cheers

Cheers Wizard, I do have the mic as high as I can, dare I say you may be right, perhaps the newer Tour X is what I need, but after just shelling out £10600 on a bike, another £500 on bits and pieces for it another £450 on a lid might be the straw that broke the camels back. I was hoping someone made an aftermarket chin guard flap thing for them. Arse!

 

[AberdeenAngus]

Vox is crap. Get a PTT.

 

[John Armstrong]

Never had a big problem with my old Tour X and vox on the autocom, Do use the open helmet sock on it though.