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Hi all,

I am using a SENA Evo 20S with the Nav VI and have a couple of issues which I am struggling to resolve:
1) Audio volume is poor (and no I am not deaf - pardon) cannot hear music or nav prompts above 60mph without earplugs which I always wear.
2) Nav prompt audio quality is really poor, sounds really distorted, mp3 files sound a lot better than the nav prompts.

Whilst at the Bol D'Or this weekend, there was a stand from SENA so I went and had a word, the guy reloaded the firmware and checked the settings but it's no different. He took the details of the nav and headset and said he would get a technical colleague to come back to me so we will see.

But I am sure I not the only person using this combination so wonder what others thought of the set up. I can't believe I am expecting too much given the outlay of this system.

Hi, I'm using a Sena Evo 20s with a Nav VI and have the same poor quality audio from the Nav. Did you find a solution?

Partially, I got a set of moulded ear plugs with speakers in and plug these into the Sena which means I can now hear the sat nav but the quality is still far from great but at least I can hear it.
I also downloaded the app which gives more control of the audio which also helped.

Far from impressed with the quality based on the cost and found Sena customer support to be useless as they can't answer passed "do a factory reset"

I'm at work so can't check, but isn't there a volume control on the Nav IV settings screen?

Oops, just spotted that this is a vintage thread.

I’ll try the app thanks. At the moment I can just about follow the audio instructions but it takes a little concentration away from the road, so not ideal!

As an owner of a Navigator VI, I'll now cross the SENA Evo 20S off my wish list.

Are there any particular intercoms that work well with the Nav VI?

Zitat von juergen im Beitrag #7

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As an owner of a Navigator VI, I'll now cross the SENA Evo 20S off my wish list.

Are there any particular intercoms that work well with the Nav VI?

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This is the thing that I find confusing, a lot of really rate the S20S and Nav VI, my experience is different and I can't believe the product quality varies that much.

Using moulded earplugs with speakers helped me a lot (actual quality is still poor) so I put it down to a dodgy headset harness or speakers but my experience appears to be the minority but I cannot get any support from Sena to understand this.

I'm having a different issue, but since people here have the same devices....

Sena 20S Evo with current firmware.  Garmin Navigator VI with software updates.  iPhone 7 running 13.1.3

I got the Sena to advance and rewind tracks both via the dial control and voice prompts.  Then, it stopped working.  Unpair and pair multiple times.  Dropped the phone, put it in airplane mode so it wasn't part of the equation, tried pairing as 2nd phone, GPS and intercom.  Never got it working again.  Anyone know what's up?  Contacted Garmin, and they couldn't figure it out either.  Is this a common flaw or am I doing something wrong.

Again, not quite the same but I have the Nav. VI and the Sena SMH5. As you may know this is a fairly basic external, clip-on pod thing. It works OK but the sound quality is very poor I think. By contrast, my old Autocom, wired system had excellent audio quality. For me this is not critical as I only use the audio feed for Satnav instructions. If I used it for music, i don't think I would be very happy!

Mine too is up to date on firmware, all connections checked etc.

I've just changed from the Interphone F5MC to the Schuberth SC1 (made by Sena) and like my previous comms with the Garmin zumo595, the SC1 has bloody awful GPS audio instructions with the Navigator 6. I have managed to improve it as I discovered the volume on the nav6 was maxed and was distorting the audio so lowering that did make a big improvement. There are a ton of audio settings in the Sena app which tbh i've not looked into yet.
There is another way around it which shouldn't be necessary and that is to connect the comms to the bike, toggle GPS audio off import your created route from your nav6 to the Motorrad app and use the audio instructions from that which are crystal clear and the visuals from your nav6.

Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #10

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I'm having a different issue, but since people here have the same devices....

Sena 20S Evo with current firmware.  Garmin Navigator VI with software updates.  iPhone 7 running 13.1.3

I got the Sena to advance and rewind tracks both via the dial control and voice prompts.  Then, it stopped working.  Unpair and pair multiple times.  Dropped the phone, put it in airplane mode so it wasn't part of the equation, tried pairing as 2nd phone, GPS and intercom.  Never got it working again.  Anyone know what's up?  Contacted Garmin, and they couldn't figure it out either.  Is this a common flaw or am I doing something wrong.

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How have your got your bluetooth pairing set up? I have paired my phone and navigator V (not VI) to the EVO. I play music from my phone, not from the Navigator.

That WOULD work, but it then puts a huge drain on the phone battery. I’ve preferred to play off the GPS for that reason.