I wore earbuds a few times, the ended up hurting my ears, getting semi-pulled out, or falling out completely. And you have to screw with them every time you take your helmet off. Picked up a Sena SMH5 and have been very happy. The only thing I disliked at first about it was if you turned your head to the left you could accidently turn the volume up or down. Ive got used to it now and can actually adjust the volume pretty accurately with my shoulder without even taking my hands off the bars. I was riding for about 10 hours on saturday and had the phone playing music via bluetooth to the SMH5 the entire time, I got MUCH better battery life than having it play through earbuds.