I'm not sure what I was really expecting, but got the unit yesterday and put on 400 miles today, anything over 70 its very hard to hear my ipod, even tried the mp3 player on my smart phone, and unless you know the song by heart you don't even know what song is playing! The bluetooth capability is pretty decent, can hear much better than the music, still kind of hard to hear at 85ish. Haven't tried the communication from rider to pas. yet. I'm assuming its gunna be alot like the bluetooth feature as far as how well it works. But overall for the money a pretty good investment