Hands free kit
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I fitted a bluetooth head unit. Excellent for listening to music on its built in SD card reader (no more trashing of cds), pointless for using a telephone thanks to the Larini and lack of roof.
It's excessive ambient noise that's the real problem, I would suggest you will need something with a clip on mic so that people can hear you. The bluetooth works surprisingly well, I can hear them but they can't hear me. It would probably be ok if you have a standard exhaust but that would be silly.
Regards, Neil
It's excessive ambient noise that's the real problem, I would suggest you will need something with a clip on mic so that people can hear you. The bluetooth works surprisingly well, I can hear them but they can't hear me. It would probably be ok if you have a standard exhaust but that would be silly.
Regards, Neil
Can I suggest an ioplay or Parrot 9000 series?
These are hands free devices that also stream calls/music/nav via stereo bluetooth using the vehicle's speakers via they're own 60watt rms amp.
Sound quality is excellent and if you've got navigation on your phone then you can listen to music whilst being directed to your destination (music mutes for nav command/calls).
The Parrot system is around twice the price of ioplay but has wheel mounted control and colour screen to play with. Ioplay just has a small control module that you use to adjust volume/accept calls etc.
I have ioplay in my Elise and making/recieving calls at m/way speeds with roof off is easily possible, with roof on the other person wont even realise you're in a car let alone one as noisy as an Elise!
http://www.ioplay.co.uk/
http://www.parrot.com/uk/products/hands-free-car-k...
Hope this helps
These are hands free devices that also stream calls/music/nav via stereo bluetooth using the vehicle's speakers via they're own 60watt rms amp.
Sound quality is excellent and if you've got navigation on your phone then you can listen to music whilst being directed to your destination (music mutes for nav command/calls).
The Parrot system is around twice the price of ioplay but has wheel mounted control and colour screen to play with. Ioplay just has a small control module that you use to adjust volume/accept calls etc.
I have ioplay in my Elise and making/recieving calls at m/way speeds with roof off is easily possible, with roof on the other person wont even realise you're in a car let alone one as noisy as an Elise!
http://www.ioplay.co.uk/
http://www.parrot.com/uk/products/hands-free-car-k...
Hope this helps
Is this a serious question?
Forget a handsfree kit in an Elise or Exige. It's pointless because of the high levels of background noise (mostly wind and some engine, exhaust, tyre etc). You won't hear them, they won't hear you. No handsfree noise cancelling mic can get rid of enough background noise. If you drive slowly, have the roof on and keep the revs down then you might get a small amount of use with a bluetooth headset. This works better as you can hear them as the speaker is in your ear, they can hear you as the mic is close to your mouth. But still not good/practical at high motorway speeds.
Forget a handsfree kit in an Elise or Exige. It's pointless because of the high levels of background noise (mostly wind and some engine, exhaust, tyre etc). You won't hear them, they won't hear you. No handsfree noise cancelling mic can get rid of enough background noise. If you drive slowly, have the roof on and keep the revs down then you might get a small amount of use with a bluetooth headset. This works better as you can hear them as the speaker is in your ear, they can hear you as the mic is close to your mouth. But still not good/practical at high motorway speeds.
Whilst I appreciate it's not a hands-free kit per se, I use a Jawbone Prime bluetooth headset. It's noise cancellation really is quite good - certainly no issues with audibility (either way) when cruising along the motorway at 70 with the roof off. It is, however, the thick end of £100, but IMHO worth it.
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Hi C43, I'm also looking for a hands free for the europa and found a europa owner on scottish elises who has a alpine head unit fitted with built in parrot bluetooth I think the model number is either bt103 or bt104 anyway it comes with a seperate mic and also full ipod control for about a £160-170 fitted at halfords just now, he really rates in the europa.
Cheers,Marc.
Cheers,Marc.
Many of the upper level Parrot carkits have dual-mic's and some fancy technology that (tries to) cancels out ambient noise. I have the mk9200i (http://www.parrot.com/uk/products/hands-free-car-kits/parrot-mki9200/) for my iPhone connected to the main headunit of my car (not a Lotus) but the people I call tell me the audio quality is very good. Incoming sound can be turned up loud so that should not be a problem. I am a happy customer especially after a recent firmware upgrade.
The mki9200 is quite an installation but same functionality can be found in the rest of the Parrot 9xxx systems.
The mki9200 is quite an installation but same functionality can be found in the rest of the Parrot 9xxx systems.
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