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Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« on: May 07, 2025, 04:17:57 pm »
As anyone with the SRL-03 in either a Neotec 3 or GT Air 3 will know there is no 3.5mm jack socket to plug your earbuds or custom made earphones into. For some earlier versions of the SRL, you could take the speakers apart and connect a 3.5 socket with a home made adapter cable, but you can't really do that in the SRL-03 as the wires are soldered directly to the speakers without a convenient plug. Sena sell some earbud splitter cables for other headsets, but not for the SRL-03. This is really disappointing as the speakers are even quieter than they are in the SRL-Mesh, and you can't hear them if above about 40mph you're wearing earplugs. Sena use their own proprietory connectors and it's further complicated by the microphone being connected to the right hand speaker so there's a 4 pin connector for one speaker and a 2 pin for the other.

I've finally found a solution though...

You need  2 x Sena 10R-A0101 earbud splitter cables, which are about £18 each. Each splitter cable has two 2-pin plugs and a stereo 3.5mm jack socket. You can get two of the 2-pin plugs (one from each cable) to fit into the 4-pin socket for the right speaker. The other 2-pin plug from one cable goes to the 2 pin socket for the left speaker and the other 2-pin plug on the other cable goes directly to the 2-pin socket on the microphone, bypassing the right hand speaker. Then either put a 3.5 stereo plug with the left and right channels shorted together into the 3.5 jack socket on the 'mic' cable, or cut the jack socket off and twist the two wires together.

With this method you don't need to take the SRL-03 apart or cut any of the wires, so you can easily change back to using the SRL speakers if you want to.

 

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Re: Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2025, 06:44:02 pm »
The answer to a maiden's prayer Andy and top marks for persistence as I had given up. The Sena splitter cable solution for the SC2 in the Schuberth C5 was perfect in its simplicity but seeing as the Schuberth gives me (at least) double vision, that is no longer an option and the Shoei, despite solving the vision problem does have it's drawbacks when it comes to the in-ear monitors.

Now then, a picture being worth a thousand words, do you have a schematic diagram so I don't end up with nothing working when I go this route. Well done once again young man...

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Re: Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2025, 11:21:17 am »
I'll try and draw one for you, but it's really quite easy once you have the cables.

If you take the RH speaker out you can find the two pins of the 4 pin connector that are for the microphone using a multimeter in continuity test mode. Then you need to convert one of the Y splitter cables back to a straight through cable for the microphone. You can do this either by cutting the 3.5 jack socket off and twisting the left and right signal wires together, or by putting in a 3.5 plug with the left and right connectors shorted. Then the straight through cable goes from the mic to the the 2 pins you identified in the 4 pin RH speaker connector and the other Y cable goes in the other 2 pins of the 4 pin connector and the connector for the LH speaker. So you end up with two 3.5 jack sockets; one with a plug permanently installed and the other that you can plug your earphones into.

You can trim / melt the two 2-pin connectors to make a 4 pin connector, but they will just about go in without doing so. If you do decide to cut off the socket on the mic cable, the wires are ridiculously thin and hard to solder which is why I'd recommend using a shorting plug instead.

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Re: Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2025, 04:19:36 pm »
Thanks Andy.

My angst at not being able to use my in-ear monitors is slightly ameliorated by the fact that I have no problems with the OEM speakers and just using my moulded plugs as, well, plugs. My moulded ear plugs have removable monitors which I popped off and have just been using the moulded bits.

I have no problem with sound levels but I do have problems with sore ears when I stop and take the plugs out after an hour or so. This is a problem I have only had since I went to the full ear moulded plugs rather than in-ear mini monitors I had before. I'm not convinced they are any quieter as far as wind noise is concerned nor any better sound wise than the previous ones.

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Re: Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2025, 04:24:18 pm »
Try this...


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Re: Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2025, 04:29:45 pm »
You need a 3.5mm stereo jack plug and 2 of these...

https://store-eu.sena.com/products/earbud-adapter-split-cable
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Re: Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2025, 04:48:42 pm »
 :thumbsupgood: for the custom diagram. Good work, Andy!

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Re: Shoei SRL-03 3.5mm Earbud adapter
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2025, 09:35:37 am »
Wonderful Andy. Thank you. As I said, a picture is worth a few beers any day of the week. Brian