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Headphones with Helmets?

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ja.
Posts: 1705 - Karma: 144
Hit my head a few times this season and I wanna start wearing my helmet everyday in the park. Just wondering what you guys think are the best headphones to use when wearing helmets. Personally I love icons, but hate to use them under a helmet. Alot of earbuds have terrible sound quality or simply fall out with the turn of a head.

What's the best bet?
Mar 15 2011 8:11PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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you can get a helmet that has headphones built in if your willing to spend some money. i have a smith helmet that has skullcandy inserts and its really nice - great sound quality.
Mar 15 2011 8:14PM
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Evilchris
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built in speakers suck tbh. I've been thinking about the icon clips or whatever they are, instead of looping them around your ear just put them around your goggle strap maybe? It's just a thought
Mar 15 2011 9:50PM
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lukemeahan.
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skullcandy asyms work great
Mar 15 2011 9:51PM
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cobra_commander
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I would suggest some really big over the ear studio headphones.
Mar 16 2011 12:49AM
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ja.
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what part about my post gave you the idea that Im a gaper, or you just thought that'd be a super funny joke?
Mar 16 2011 1:17AM
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cobra_commander
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the part where you want to use headphones under a helmet.
Mar 16 2011 1:22AM
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ja.
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headphones, earbuds, whatev you wanna call em. are you suggesting that no-one listens to music while wearing a helmet unless they are a gaper?
Mar 16 2011 1:27AM
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cobra_commander
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I sometimes pretend I am listening to music singing along to some corny song while riding the chairlift with foreigners in order to give the impression that Americans all rock out to songs like The Danger Zone and Eye of the Tiger.
Mar 16 2011 1:31AM
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ProLens
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Both Smith and Shred make helmets with built in audio systems. Only problem with these is most people take the ear pads out of their helmets for park so they can wear a beanie underneath, and the audio system is made into the ear pads. The biggest advantage to having the built in audio system though (primarily with Smith Holt) is that there is a button that allows you to pause the music without messing with your helmet and taking out your headphones, which can be a pain sometimes when talking to people on the hill and having to pause your music.
Mar 16 2011 1:15PM
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ja.
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man this went downhill fast
Mar 16 2011 2:03PM
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belden...
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Just wear icons around your neck and use your goggle strap to keep them up
Mar 16 2011 2:35PM
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Mculla11
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gyro and smith make the built in headphones that you can buy as an accessory. They work pretty good or the icon 2's are sick. They go right around the back of the helmet and right on your ears.
Mar 16 2011 3:18PM
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jeremy.g
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i really cant stand icons around the back of the neck, everytime i land they fall down, and i really like to hearsome solid base. i have really liked earbuds. if you find some that stay in your ears they are golden. the cheapest skullcandy buds suck but i dropped forty bucks on a pair and they are pretty solid, they have the cloth cable instead of plastic, stay in my ears really well and have been rockin them all season
Mar 16 2011 5:29PM
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Mculla11
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i switch back from earbuds and icons also. I do agree that icons fall off your ears but I still like them. Its just preference i guess
Mar 16 2011 5:35PM
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monkatizer
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Mar 16 2011 6:35PM
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ProLens
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Sorry I misread your post...

I just ipod ear buds when I use a helmet because I don't like the ear buds that actually go into your eye. Just uncomfortable imo. These don't fall out but can get uncomfortable after a couple hours:
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Mar 16 2011 8:53PM
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Blake.P
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i have those. great for everything but skiing. icon2's suck for skiing with the new ear pads and band.

use the ipod ones. cheap, have a volume control thing on the cord, and not noise canceling so you can still have conversations
Mar 16 2011 11:54PM
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BuSkiz
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during the euro x games super pipe Dorey was rocking his icons underneath his goggle strap behind his helmet, and they stayed on during his run
Mar 17 2011 12:44AM
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CrunkNugget
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i have some skullcandy FMJ's that have stayed in one piece and have killer bass
Mar 17 2011 6:53PM
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RoofDaRoofieDogg
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I have a bula toque with headphones built in. pretty dope, they dont come out and the sound quality is pretty good too.
Mar 20 2011 5:29PM
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NoCoastSkier
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i have icon 2s and a giro encore helmet.
i put the icons backwards so the "L" side is on my right side and same with the "R" around my neck because when they are upside down the seem to fit the ears better this way
i put my helmet.goggles and everything on.
then where there are the 2 straps that connect to make the chin strap. go over the back one with the icons and tuck them under the front one closest to your face.
mine seem to stay in perfect
Mar 20 2011 7:26PM
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Hoover
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just wear ipod ones its not that hard
Mar 20 2011 7:42PM
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Miguel-L
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i would either recomend using icons and putting them bakcn underneath gogglee strap or you can put them aroudn your neck and crank them or earpolution earpuds work really well

Mar 20 2011 7:48PM
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^BEANS^
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get a ipod shuffle and strap it to your goggle and use skullcandy smokin buds/ipod headphones. works great!
Mar 20 2011 7:54PM
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RoofDaRoofieDogg
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that hurts my ears, pisses me off
Mar 20 2011 7:55PM
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belden...
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you have to tuck iconns into your goggles... you cant just put them there
Mar 20 2011 8:09PM
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