Giro TuneUps Audio Drops, Standard System
The Giro TuneUps Audio Drops let you listen to your favorite music on your mp3 player while you're on the lift or the slopes. The Giro TuneUps Audio Drops are designed to work with adult-sized Giro ski helmets and snowboard helmets models years 2009 and newer (check the earflaps on your helmet to confirm compatibility - Drop compatible ear pads have a removable foam disc inside the ear pad).
Giro TuneUps Audio Drops, Standard System Features:
- Installs without any tools or hassle
- Crystal clear treble
- Deep thumping base
- In-line mute button and volume dial
- 40mm speakers
Giro Tuneups Audio Drops: How do they work? Do they work?
In older models of Giro helmets, users had to remove the entire ear pad and insert a "headphone" ear pad. The new Giro Tuneups Audio Drops are actual thin speakers that drop into the newly designed earpads that come with your Giro helmet. The Audio Drops are designed to work with helmets manufactured after the 2009/2010 season. Lift the flap in the ear pad, pull out the small foam disc from the earpads, and place the drops into the ear pads. Plug the Skullcandy-powered module into your phone or mp3 player and you're good to go.
What’s the Difference Between Giro TuneUps Audio Drops Standard System and Giro TuneUps Audio Drops with Bluetooth Link?
Giro gives you two options to bring your music to the slopes. The Standard Audio Drops system allows you to play music from most mp3 players. Once the Giro Audio Drops are inserted in your helmet, you can just plug in and go. The standard package is like turning your helmet into a giant set of earbuds.
If you want the ability to use your phone while you're on the lift or slopes, then you should check out
the Giro TuneUps Audio Drops with Bluetooth Link. When using any helmet audio system, please remember to be responsible and considerate on the slopes, regardless of what song is playing.
Giro: Your Comprehensive Line of Giro Ski Helmets and Giro Snowboard Helmets
Since 1985, Giro has been at the vanguard of helmet design and protection. Giro helmet technology has improved steadily since the mid-1980s. Helmets for bicycling and ski racing used to be clunky things that were heavy and poor fitting because helmet construction technology lagged significantly behind the
science of head protection. Thus the cyclist or skier who wanted head protection was limited to heavy motorcycle-like helmets with little or no vents.
Then in 1984 came a new protective standard, ASTM F2040, and an ingenious designer by the name of Jim Gentes who had a vision to design lightweight, well-vented yet highly protective headgear that could achieve this new ASTM F2040 standard. Gentes founded Giro Sport Design in 1985 and
introduced his first helmet to the market in 1986, an oversized, expanded polystyrene (EPS) bicycle helmet that came with interchangeable bright-colored Lycra cloth helmet covers. Because it had no hard shell, this new Giro helmet was incredibly lightweight. It was also extremely well
vented. And with the interchangeable covers, Giro brought style into the mix. One day you could ride with a red Giro helmet, the next day you could wear a blue one. Brilliant.
Over the next two decades, Giro continued to advance its bike helmet designs. Giro was able to apply much of its experience in constructing bicycle helmets to manufacturing ski helmets and snowboard helmets. With more units sold than any other manufacturer, Giro is quite simply the
leader in the development of protective gear for your head.
