SENA SRL3 COMMUNICATION SYST

The Sena SL3 is a very sleek unit, specifically designed for the Shoei Geotech3 helmet. This Sena is embodied in the helmet and there is no little device hanging on the side of your helmet. The speakers are improved and the sound is better than the previous units. Unfortunately, the downside is that they haven’t improved the coms distance between riders. Overall I’m very pleased with the performance, the look and the relatively easy installation. And one other thing that is convenient, the unit is charged through a port on the back of the helmet.

Sounds great works well

My husband ordered these to replace his current Bluetooth set. He Loves them. Took him a little while to install, but they worked perfectly. We both have Sena communications in our helmets, and enjoy the ease of charging, endurance of the battery, and provides clear sound when talking or listening to music in our helmets.

installation leaves a bunch of exposed wires that you don't know what to do with. i realize that helmet padding covers it all up, but still, it felt wrong to have all this stuff exposed. the guides in the helmet for wires are great idea, but if the length of the wire is twice the length of the guides, what do you do with the excess? speakers didn't feel like they snapped in well, but i couldn't get them out. the antennas are just shoved in to a recessed area. spent about six hours struggling to put the cheek pads back on. when i play music i can definitely tell there's audio coming out of the left speaker, can't really tell if the right speaker is on. the sena app doesn't provide a way to test each speaker separately. no way to control the balance right vs left. each time i open sena, it erroneously tells me i need a firmware upgrade when in fact i just completed one. the wifi based firmware update leaves a lot to be desired. it's hokey. when reconnecting to the sena wifi device, i have to reset the device and set it up all over again just to get the wifi to show. all in the end for the system to tell me that my firmware is up to date. and then for the app to erroneously tell me i need an update again. when i have the helmet on playing music and try to invoke a "hey google" voice command, there's an interim period of 0.5 seconds where the audio level goes sky high and kills my eardrums. the "auto" volume adjustment feels outright dangerous. set to medium, i put the helmet on, asked google to unpause the music, volume level was so high it hurt my ears. the buttons on the left hand side to control the volume are so unwieldy (hard to detect with the fingers) that it takes forever to adjust the volume, even without gloves. the audibility of music degrades very quickly when riding at any moderate speeds. rendering the whole point of having this system practically useless. all i want is some active noise cancellation to protect my ears while riding. you'd think that would be the primary function of this device. but there's no such feature. sigh.

I installed this in my Neotec3. First thing I did was to update the unit. Then watched multiple install videos prior before the helmet arrived. Install is pretty straight forward. The cheek pads can be alittle challenging to get back into place. The Sena works perfectly. It took a minute to get the voice commands down. Say the wrong thing and nothing works. Love the package. I have a Carpuride in the mix and its fantastic as well.