Thanks for the excellent advice Gents I'm going to buy either a Shoei or the Shuberth. and get some custom earplugs.. I'm going to also look at pulling the guts out of a BOSE noise reduction headset and try and retro fit it into my full face Bell. I have a noise reduction headset in our airplane and those things are remarkable. And the price of those units has really come down the last couple of years.. I wonder if the future is ANR [ active noise reduction ] in motorcycle helmets.