Making Autocom speakers thinner

[CBFer]

Does anybody - eg Rich - know if it is possible to make standard Autocom speakers thinner by removing the speaker itself from the plastic carrier it is fitted within? My wife finds the speakers are too thick to fit comfortably inside her Shoei XR1000. I've already removed the small circular speaker carrier from the larger oval carrier. While that has made things a little better, it doesn't make the speaker any thinner. I'm now considering going one step further and removing the speaker itself from the circular carrier. Is there a good reason why the speakers are contained within carriers which appear, on the face of it anyway, to be unnecessarily thick - the speakers look to be about half the thickness of the carriers. Losing that extra bulk could make all the difference between comfortable and not comfortable.

I know she could get some custom moulded earphones, but we'd rather get the Autocom speakers right, if at all possible

 

[Firefox]

thinner autocom

Ca,n't remember exactly what bits but I did manage to remove some bits and make a set of autocom speakers considerably thinner. Worked fine until I changed helmet and bought moulded speaker plugs.
the moulded units are top class although expensive. But you will need to be able to adjust each persons volume individually as they only need about one third of the volume to drive them. i.e. using them on a walkman, volume set at 3. Using normal earbuds (not on bike) volume set at 10 (of 40).

 

[Boxadog]

I too also had the same problem with the speakers in my Arai helmet.

So I removed the speakers from the larger oval carrier and also recessed them into the polystyrene foam in the helmet.

I was a bit concerned about doing this but after a chat with a guy from Arai at the bike show he said that it would make no difference to the structural integrity of the helmet.

Bob

 

[ianboydsnr]

Hot spoon recesses them nicely

 

[CBFer]

Hot spoon recesses them nicely

Thanks for the replies guys.

Unfortunately, in the XR1000 there is a hard plastic liner in the area of the ear recesses .

 

[Firegus]

Removed the plastic cover from the Autocom speakers for both my System 5 and swimbo`s Arai.
Made them much easier to intall, just put a bit of double sided tape to keep them secure.
No problems in the last two years.

 

[GSrich]

Does anybody - eg Rich - know if it is possible to make standard Autocom speakers thinner by removing the speaker itself from the plastic carrier it is fitted within? My wife finds the speakers are too thick to fit comfortably inside her Shoei XR1000. I've already removed the small circular speaker carrier from the larger oval carrier. While that has made things a little better, it doesn't make the speaker any thinner. I'm now considering going one step further and removing the speaker itself from the circular carrier. Is there a good reason why the speakers are contained within carriers which appear, on the face of it anyway, to be unnecessarily thick - the speakers look to be about half the thickness of the carriers. Losing that extra bulk could make all the difference between comfortable and not comfortable.

I know she could get some custom moulded earphones, but we'd rather get the Autocom speakers right, if at all possible

You can take the speakers out of the plastic outers and run the speakers bare, this will help slightly but the XR1000's are a very tight fitting helmet to begin with and can not be modified to make the speakers fit.

Boxadog, I am very surprised that had to modify your Arai when they hardly ever cause us any problems, we pretty much all wear them here with no problems at all.

Rich

 

[RadioActive]

I've just purchased an Autocom and am surprised how thick the speakers are and I can't get a comfortable fit in my Shoei Raid. I've tried removing the outers but it's still no good and I wouldn't have said I've got jug ears! My Scala Rider earpiece was OK as was my cheap GPS one so it looks like I'll have to cut the originals off and solder some others on

 

[Antz]

Autocom speakers

Does anyone know if the Scala speakers or similar can be purchased separately. I have the same problem where the standard Autocom speakers are too thick.

 

[RadioActive]

In the end I removed the plastic outer cover and also recessed them a little into the polystryene helmet liner but they don't seem to have as much bass response now.

 

[Boxadog]

GS Rich.

I obviously have jug ears.

I came up to Autocom about 18 months ago and had the helmet kit fitted by one of you're guys and had problems from the get go.

You're chap removed the outer covers which helped but was still uncomfortable.

So I took the helmet apart and recessed them into the polystryrene by about 6mm which now works just fine.

Bob