Since an amp and speakers can get pricey and I want to have Bluetooth, I am thinking of installing the WHIM and just using helmet speakers. I am wondering about the quality of the sound through the Bluetooth though. I am not an audiophile, so I'm not going to be highly critical, I just want good sound. Hoping I can achieve this with just WHIM.

What do the experts say?

 

The WHIM will give you pretty good stereo audio when using the HD branded 20S EVO headset, but using any other brand headset will give you mono audio of a bit lower quality because the WHIM looks for H-D in the headset handshaking and if it doesn't see it reduces the quality of the audio. I have the WHIM and a set of Sena 30K headsets, and they're ok for me because I really don't care that much about tunes. The headset does have it's own FM stereo receiver which works fine.

 

 

What is WHIM???

 

 

I'm not an expert but in my experience, the quality of sound is dependent on a few factors and the main one being the helmet you are using. I use a HD FF version of the Scorpion T510 (which I really like) and sitting in the garage, it sounds awesome. However, once I get going down the road that "quality" sound diminishes somewhat because I can't hear the bass. I don't mind it though because I really can't hear it through the speakers either when at highway speeds. The "quality" of sound is subjective but my opinion is, it's good enough.

 

Harleys Wireless Headset Interface Module, the only way you can get Bluetooth from the factory radio.

 

 

can you listed to music through the bike, and use the headsets as intercom only?

 

There are 3 options. Music/Media, Communications and Prompts. Communications seems to be phone and intercom, so it looks like you can listen to the radio through the speaker and set phone/intercom to headset. That's how I have mine set but just installed the WHIM and haven't played with it yet.