Dag Nabit
Sorry about the title...... I was into one of my Gabby Hayes modes.
Flip, if I'm ever caught out in public with makeup on..... you can be sure I would have applied it properly at home with my extra large, zooming, magnifying mirror under controlled lighting conditions to be sure the blush didn't over power the mascara. Yes, I probably even blotted as well. Now, back to the subject at hand:
Being a musician.......music is part of my life and it also pays most of the bills every month so I'm going to make it available to me while riding. Now, after saying that, it doesn't necessarily mean I'll always have it turned on or the volume up so loud I can't hear traffic noise, squealing brakes, horns and other assorted audio simulants. I'm just saying, like Tomo and Pig that it does offer a pleasant alternative to those loud HD pipes as I go screaming by them!
Like Pig, I use Autocom and it handles everything my electrical relays can stand. I chose custom molded ear monitors and they only decrease the external noise by 25 db. The difference is when I'm listening to another rider on the radio, or getting the next vocal instruction from the GPS, I can actually understand what they're saying. Sometimes the ambient noise around me seems to be at the same frequency as the human voice and it all gets jumbled up. Something to do with variable harmonics and some damage to the ear drums in a wild studio session many years ago.
To each his own.....as they say but I wanted to let you know my side of the coin.