Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

As per the subject line. I'm toying with buying these for an upcoming trip. I don't want to spend a fortune on an intercom, so I'm interested in getting opinions.
Tia
John

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

For a reasonably cheap headset for phone/satnav/radio/music/pillion it's fine, for group riding it's not the best as the range is short, you can only remember three other head sets (and be connected to one at a time - quite often it takes a few goes to connect so you don't really want to keep trying to connect to more than one person, you also need to update the firmware to connect to any other brand).

Battery life is several days if you're just using it for satnav or even that and pillion. If you're playing music constantly I normally get less that 4 hours.

Basically - Just for phone/sat nav or pillion - Buy it.
For music or group riding look for something else.

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

Cheers for that.

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

how do these things work if you wear earplugs?

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

I wear filtered plugs and it's just fine, have used it with normal plugs and it was audiable up to around 70/80 for satnav but it was more like 60/70 for pillion coms with my Shoei GT Air II.

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filtered plugs? I wear custom ones....

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

John I'd need to go check, I think I've got a sena intercom. The charge lasts about 5/6 hours. It's great but you need to make sure the speaker is aligned properly to make it work...

I'll check in the morning when I'm slightly less inebriated...

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

Filtered ones have a ceramic filter which cuts out the harmful levels, but lets you hear normal levels, so speech & voice.

You can get custom plugs with these ceramic filters

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

so I would need to buy new ear plugs for this sort of thing to work properly?

Re: Sena SMH5 intercom, any good?
 

I would try it with your current ear plugs first, and if you can;t hear well enough, then buy some with filters.

Seems false economy to buy new custom ear plugs if you can hear what you need to hear?