Make Your Own Snowboard Helmet
So after purchasing a Red Audio Drop In kit, I was really disappointed in the sound quality. That's when I decided to make my own with a decent pair of spare Sony MDR-XD100's.
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| The Giro Encore II helmet. |
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| The original helmet's earpads with Red Audio Drop Ins. Note the black tabs that are used to wedge the pieces into the helmet. |
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| Stock Sony MDR-XD100 |
Here is a close up of the headphone earcup assembly. The basic idea was to form a tab similar to what the helmet earpieces had to insert into the helmet.
Start of the headphone dis-assembly.
Here is a comparison of one of the arms shaved down to a similar width and shape of the helmet ear tab.
Another close up comparing the modified headphone piece and the ear piece.
I had to shorten the 6ft cable to about 2.5ft. I cut the excess off and reconnected the tip then taped it back up neatly with electric tape.
Now that the cable was the right length, I fit each piece to where the ear tabs used to be.
To my pleasant surprise the headphone piece fit perfectly!
Both of the headphones resting nicely in the helmet.
I then fit the chin straps over the headphone pieces. These too fit nice and snug.
Here is the finished snowboard audio helmet.
Front view of the finished snowboard audio helmet.
Another view.
Testing the snowboard audio helmet at Vail.
Side view while wearing.
