New Interphone Tour

[Max_W]

I've done about 1000 miles now with the Tour. The general sound quality is hugely better than with the old F5MC, and was especially noticeable with the intercom between 3 riders. Pairing multiple riders is an absolute breeze too, just lay them out exactly as per the diagram.

I have an adapter made up by Chainspeed so I can use my in-ear monitors. I struggled with my old F5MC as the lowest volume possible whilst hearing anything was often too loud, and presses of the volume controls went from off to too loud, however the new Tour has a far greater number of graduations in the volume control so I can get the right volume level easily. Hopefully that makes sense! Using IEM is definitely the way to go, and I can hear music as well as have a clear conversation at autobahn speeds (but I could with the F5MC too).

The radio is slightly better than the F5MC, but good consistently clear reception is still not perfect. I guess that's the compromise with such a small aerial. Tuning and finding channels is significantly better though.

In the first few days I had an issue with the Tour disconnecting then reconnecting with the Nav 5 every 5-10 mins, but it seems to have resolved itself now.

Battery life is even better than with the old F5MC. I've not gone out of my way to record battery life, but the most recent charge has lasted 2 weeks of 2-hrs per day commuting, and still says the battery level is high!

I'm annoyed that the app isn't available yet; it should have been good to go when the hardware was released. Another small gripe is that you can't listen to music from the Nav 5 while using the intercom, a capability which was promised for the Tour by Interphone many months ago. You can listen to the radio at the same time as use the intercom however, so if you get an FM transmitter and plug it in to your iPhone (other phone models are available...), you can play the music you want from the phone (with the Tour tuned to the relevant frequency) at the same time as being connected to the intercom.

Other than these couple of issues I think that the Interphone Tour is brilliant, far better than the old F5MC. There may be other equally good or better devices, but this works for me.

 

[Rick 1600]

Max W, thanks for posting. Can you go over the transmitter bit again? Lost me there. What am I looking for exactly?
So the pillion can't here the sat nav? Correct?
I've tried connecting phone music to the pillion but it cuts out the intercom between us and she can't hear me or the music?

Rick

 

[Max_W]

You can get an FM transmitter for many phone models, and connected to the phone, it transmits the audio signal in the form of an FM signal which can be picked up by car radios, Interphone Tour etc. See below as an example.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-FM-Ra...104518?hash=item5d5b8fba46:g:UDoAAOSwa-dWlNo7

Set your phone to playing music, choose which FM frequency to transmit on, and tune in with your Interphone Tour.

I've only ever ridden with other riders on their own bikes, each with their own intercom. I've not ridden with a pillion using intercom, so can't help there I'm afraid. I assume however that if the pillion isn't connected to the Nav 5 or other GPS system, they won't hear any directions, just whatever signal they're getting from a connected audio device (or radio) and whatever chat is coming from the rider's intercom.

 

[stever1]

I find that as an intercom between bikes its fine. The only negative is that if you have it paired to a sat nav, a nav 5 in this case. You can't have it as an intercom as well.

 

[Rick 1600]

What about the intercom when its paired to a phones music? I'm sure it says it can do that in the online instructions?
Hope it does because I'm going to try the fm transmitter thingy...

 

[Rick 1600]

Right I have decided to keep the Interphone Tour.

I now know how to get music to the pillion helmet. They won't hear instructions from the 660 but I rarely have voice instructions on anyway. That means they can't hear music either so I've bought a BT thing that makes any non BT capable of connecting with my Interphone. I've connected my iPod and Pure Highway to this little device. So far everything works.
To change from iPod to Pure I just swap the little cable from the BT device to whichever I want to listen to.

I don't use my Interphone for talking to other guys while out on a ride so don't know if it's any good . The FM radio that the Tour comes with doesn't work very well in my estimation.

Oh. No app yet?

 

[Bounce]

I don't use my Interphone for talking to other guys while out on a ride so don't know if it's any good

I recently went to France on a mini break; I've got the Scala G4 (upgraded software & using the fully compatible G9x base unit) and my mate has the Interphone Tour.

We paired the two units easily and the comms was crystal clear up to 1-1.2km with a clear line of sight. Re-connection happened automatically when back in range; he claims the in helmet speakers performed well, although my in ear monitors would've been far superior

I'd hope that comms between like models would be good.....

 

[Max_W]

I find that as an intercom between bikes its fine. The only negative is that if you have it paired to a sat nav, a nav 5 in this case. You can't have it as an intercom as well.

You can, but the intercom cuts out when the GPS emits any sort of alert or command, and then it kicks back in. It is a pain in the arse however, cutting off people mid-sentence, so I normally mute the Nav 5 completely when I'm using the intercom.

 

[simoto]

I have the Interphone sport.
Radio, as noted already, is pretty poor.
The "full" instruction manual (which has to be downloaded from the internet) basically states that the radio is a bit rubbish over a couple of paragraphs of disclaimers.
Customer service, if you can track them down, is totally and utterly fucking useless.

 

[simoto]

You can get an FM transmitter for many phone models, and connected to the phone, it transmits the audio signal in the form of an FM signal which can be picked up by car radios, Interphone Tour etc. See below as an example.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-FM-Ra...104518?hash=item5d5b8fba46:g:UDoAAOSwa-dWlNo7

Set your phone to playing music, choose which FM frequency to transmit on, and tune in with your Interphone Tour.

Or save six quid and use the blue tooth ...........

 

[stever1]

You can, but the intercom cuts out when the GPS emits any sort of alert or command, and then it kicks back in. It is a pain in the arse however, cutting off people mid-sentence, so I normally mute the Nav 5 completely when I'm using the intercom.

Agreed. When i used to have a wired Starcom system there was no problem with using a sat nav as well as an intercom.