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Giro TuneUps Wireless
Reviewed by
Jasmine France
on 12/04/2006

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The good: The Giro TuneUps Wireless kit features a unique, modular design with large, easy-to-use controls. Audio quality for music is great for wireless headphones.

The bad: The Giro TuneUps Wireless kit is pricey, especially if you opt for a compatible helmet. It's out-of-the-box compatible only with the iPod or A2DP cell phones, and cell phone call quality is poor.

The bottom line: Skiers, snowboarders, and wire-haters alike will be well suited by the Giro TuneUps Wireless headphones, which can really pump out the tunes. As a cell phone headset, however, this unit fails.

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  • Reviewed by:
    Jasmine France
  • Reviewed on: 12/04/2006
Much like Oakley, Giro's main focus is not consumer electronics. Nope, this company's main product lines consist of protective helmets for skiers, snowboarders, and cyclists. But a couple of years ago, Giro realized that tearing up the slopes can be a lot more fun when you have tunes along for the ride and created the TuneUps II, a useful set of headphones integrated into earpads that could be interchanged between compatible Giro helmets. Oh, and they worked as a cell phone headset too. Now, Giro has taken it a step further with the TuneUps Wireless, cutting the cords and adding stereo Bluetooth capability. You'll pay a premium--$200 sans helmet--for these handy 'phones, but you'll be rewarded with a user-friendly pair of headphones that provide great sound quality and a handy, modular design--all without the wires.

Once you get your hands on them, it's obvious that the TuneUps Wireless are just distantly related to their predecessor. The design is dramatically different. Rather than earpads with integrated headphones, the TuneUps Wireless kit comes with a set of speaker pods. These can either be snapped into the included DJ headset, which has a padded headband and full-size cushioned ear pieces, or into a compatible Giro helmet--the Omen, Fuse, G10, and Nine.9 models--which must be purchased separately. We found both items to be sufficiently comfortable after brief periods of wear, and the helmet definitely will keep your head nice and warm.

In addition to the DJ headset, Giro includes an iPod-compatible Bluetooth transmitter, which is actually a NaviPlay unit made by Ten Technology. This transmitter also makes up one part of the Ten Technology NaviPlay Bluetooth headphone kit, an Editors' Choice winner, and as expected, it works very well and pairs seamlessly with the speaker pods. It also includes a pass-through syncing port for the iPod. The pods themselves have an array of controls: the right piece features a large, backlit play/pause button, and twisting the outer ring of the pod serves to shuttle through tracks; the left side has a call-answer button, and twisting the ring controls the volume. Oddly, the Omen helmet that came with our review sample had improperly labeled earpads that reversed the pod controls--a bit counterintuitive, as we then had to twist backward to go forward through tracks and vice versa. And unfortunately, we couldn't switch the pods because the cable is connected in such a way that makes this impossible. Hopefully, this quirk will be addressed in production models of the helmet.

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