Schuberth SRC / Scala G4 / Zumo 660 Review

Thought I'd post my experience of this combo at the weekend.

I have an SRC which I use with my Zumo 660 which in turn is connected to my iPhone. Last weekend I took the other half down to the Eastbourne airshow as a small warm-up ride for our impending France trip.

The Scala G4 was fitted to my wife's Shoei XR-800 and we paired it on channel B to the SRC before we set off. The M.O. was that my SRC was normally connected to the Zumo but if either of us wanted to chat then we pressed our B button (turned VOX off for simplicity) to start the helmet to helmet connection

I didn't think that we would chat so much as we rode along but we ended up just leaving the B channel on all the time. Voices were crystal clear and background noise was only evident when there was a strong gust of side wind.

All in all I'm over the moon with the sound quality of these units (the SRC and the G4 are really the same things) and although more expensive than wired systems, I've had both Autocom and Starcom in the past but neither has ever been as easy to use and install as this.

On a comical note, when the second of the two helmets powers up, a voice message is heard in the first helmet announcing "Rider B connected". In my childish head I hear it in a thick Jamaican accent

If you use the SRC and 660, how could I then connect an mp3 player that has audio or optical out ot can be used as an external usb drive?

Why not use the 660 as the MP3 player like I do? I've got a 16GB SD card in it and use it this way every day.

AshR1 said:

Why not use the 660 as the MP3 player like I do? I've got a 16GB SD card in it and use it this way every day.

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I guess that would work but my mp3 player is 40gb. I wondered if there was an easy way to hook it up.

I have a Shuberth C2 at the moment but do need a new helmet. Is the C3/SRC the best option?

660 mp3?

I might be missing something really obvious, but I can't get decent mp3 volume on my 660. I've tried adjusting output levels but I still can't get decent volume compared to the nav announcements - what's the secret?

MikeG said:

I might be missing something really obvious, but I can't get decent mp3 volume on my 660. I've tried adjusting output levels but I still can't get decent volume compared to the nav announcements - what's the secret?

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Have you gone to "volume" and then selected "mixer" and upped the media option?

If you have, then sorry I've got mine at 100% but Liz who announces the speed cameras is a little quiet for me. I might use this:

http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/TTSVoiceEditor as it worked well on my zumo 550.

With this set up can you listen to different iPods and be connected to different phones or just one of each?

By the way...I'm a numpty!

Typical setup is:

Rider Helmet <> Zumo <> Phone 1 (music from Zumo, not phone)
^
v
Pillion Helmet <> Phone 2
Pillion Helmet <> MP3 player


The rider cannot use the pillion's phone and the pillion cannot use the rider's GPS or phone.

So what did u need to buy to get it all to work?

Any good deals out there?

Trev

I just bought 2 src headsets and already had a zumo 660, my problem is getting both headsets talking to each other while connected to the zumo for gps and using the mp3.

works fine just for me to the zumo or works fine headset to headset with no zumo, but when I want it all as soon as we speak to zumo stops and can't get it back, any one else having probs?? do you think I need to download some fixes? or am I missing something.

Frankh said:

I just bought 2 src headsets and already had a zumo 660, my problem is getting both headsets talking to each other while connected to the zumo for gps and using the mp3.

works fine just for me to the zumo or works fine headset to headset with no zumo, but when I want it all as soon as we speak to zumo stops and can't get it back, any one else having probs?? do you think I need to download some fixes? or am I missing something.

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Having the same issue, great for listening to music etc, but once comms is started it sticks to the open channel like it's VOX stuck, won't go back to the Zumo for nav or phone!

I'm going to chase Schuberth over Xmas, though the new 4.10 update for the Zumo 'might' have helped with 'undocumented features'.....

Billythebiker said:

With this set up can you listen to different iPods and be connected to different phones or just one of each?

By the way...I'm a numpty!

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The scalas come with a jack as part of the headset where you can plug individual iPods or phone devices for individual listening which are obviousely connected by wire and not bluetooth, a good option if you wnat to listen to your music whilst the pillion listens to theirs

I have the Q2 and have been impressed with it also.