Not in our experience. We (my wife and I, she on pillion) have used Autocoms since, I think, the 80s. They are the only intercoms we've ever used but we really wanted a wireless solution, not least because of the GSA's space issue, so after a bit of research we bought a Packtalk Bold Duo set.
Our use case may be unusual but we both want to listen to the same music, hear the satnav instructions and chat. We accepted she wouldn't be able to hear the satnav instructions as a compromise to lose the wires but the music playback when shared by the Packtalk from an iPhone is choppy - constantly stopping, speeding up and sometimes playing normally. If it's just playing for one of us it works as it should.
Compare and contrast with plugging into an Autocom which just works, including both of us hearing the satnav instructions.
If there's a solution I'm all ears as we really do want them to work but at the moment, despite going back to the vendor to see if he can resolve it, they seem like a non-starter. He did seem to get it working but that was without the satnav. Now I've paired that again the music is back to how it was.
That's only part of the issue of course as even if we can get the Packtalk to work, and I've no confidence it will, I'm still trying to fit a PDU.
Kevin
We have the same requirements to be able to talk and also both hear the satnav instructions. I used to use an Autocomm, the smaller unit, forget the name at the moment, and had it mounted vertically inside the fairing on the left side, stuck to a bracket which I made. However on the latest bike I've gone back to Bluetooth to get rid of the cables.
It is extremely difficult to meet these apparently simple requirements with BlueTooth, and I have tried all sorts of permutations of phone based satnav and different BT units, including trying use the bike's TFT, even using a Samsung phone because it can in theory talk to two headsets at the same time. Some configurations almost worked but not reliably, so in the end what I have done is stop trying to pair my headset directly to the phone I use as a satnav. Instead I take an audio feed from the phone's headphone socket, split it into two using a stereo splitter and feed the connections into two usb powered Bluetooth transmitters of the sort designed to allow you to use BT headphones with your TV or other audio source. I have wired up a 12V to USB converter with dual outputs to power the transmitters.
If you use the BMW NAV rather than a phone satnav app, then audio is available on the spare socket on the cable which goes from the NAV mount to the bike's wiring. Note that if you enable audio output on the NAV in its settings, then that will automatically disable the Bluetooth output so you can't feed one headset from the NAV via its BT, and the other from a BT transmitter connected to the audio output, you will still need to split the audio to two BT transmitters.
I bought a pair of Cardo Freecom 2 headsets, and we pair mine to one of the Bluetooth transmitters and my wife's to the other one. The reason for buying the Cardo units is because they can be configured using a phone based Cardo app to enable a feature called Parallel Audio Streaming, whereby you can hear other BT transmitted audio sources such as whatever is coming out of the phone's headphone socket via the external BT transmitters, be it music or satnav instructions, at the same time as hearing the intercom to intercom connection. I've tried other headsets which supposedly have a similar feature, but the Cardos are the only ones I've tried where this seems to work reliably. This lets us hear the phone audio at the same time as our intercom conversation.
We don't normally play music, but we could do as the satnav app will automatically interrupt the music when a satnav instruction is issued. If you don't both need to hear the satnav instructions then you can just pair the rider's headset to the satnav phone or NAV and do away with the two BT transmitters. The wife could then pair her own phone to her headset, and and with the parallel audio streaming feature you can then both hear the intercom and audio over BT from your own phone.
I have so far only tested this off the bike but will soon be permanently installing the cabling and the two BT transmitters onto the bike and will seee if the more hostile electrical environment has any negative effect. The choice of transmitter is important, because you need units which once paired to a Cardo headset will reliably and automatically re-pair every time the two are both switched on. They also need to be capable of running directly off USB power rather than an internal battery. I found the dual transmitters, designed to drive two pairs of headphones from one unit, were very poor in this respect, so I'm using two single transmitters instead which are much better.
I am using ones very similar to these:
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