My S2 has an Alpine audio (standard fit I think) which is so useless that I wondered why Lotus bothered fitting it into such an environment.
At the same time, as a way of encouraging SWMBO to travel in the thing for longer journeys, I thought of getting some decent noise cancelling headsets to hook up some music. Question is do I just use a separate iPod with a charger or do something a little more ‘built in’. The Alpine unit does not seem to have any provision for either iPod or earphones so inclined to just ignore it, but I would be grateful for any feedback from anyone who has done anything along these lines.
I tried singing very loudly. SWMBO said if I did not stop, she would never go in the car. That could be a good thing!
But - I really would like to do some longer trips so I will have to experiment a bit. Don’t see the point in chamging the in car audio as the speakers are mounted in rather flimsy plastic which does little for sound quality. The engine / exhaust / SC sounds much better. Also want cut noise out not add to it. Not sure if noise cancelling headphones can work off just iPod power though. Ho hum…
Sennheiser do some neat wired noise reducing headphones powered by an in-line battery(PXC 150) but I use some Blue- tooth rechargeable Sennheiser PXC 310 BT’s which link wirelessly to my Nokia.Both work very well but with a K-series I need to check every so often that all is well enginewise!
I switched the standard apple headphones for some sennheiser in-ear head phones. Now my iPod is on half the volume instead of on max. They are not noise reduction ones but fit so neat that they work like proper earplugs. A cheaper alternative to the above I guess. Just keep an extra eye on the street and mirrors.
