Hello - First, let me introduce myself, my name is Todd Eby and I actually, in conjunction with my design partner, produce the xma3...I'm actually a BMW rider myself, please don't hold that against me - tried to get an FJR but, my dealer can never get them in (that's another story!?!?!), and am quite active on a variety of the other forums such as AdvRider.com. I just was doing some reports on my site and noticed that I was getting some traffic from this forum so I thought I'd poke my nose in and take a look...Hope you don't mind...

Also, if there is enough interest in the xma3 I'd look into adding your forum members to our Group Discount Program - this basically gets all forum members a discount on the xma3...In the mean time I'll take a minute to field the item on the Mix-It (I know a little bit about them :rolleyes - had to check out the 'competition')...

With regards to the filter needed for the Mix-It -> Actually, the 'noise suppression' is caused by ground loops that the Mix-It can't deal with due to the fact that it has no provisions for dealing with them in it's circuit - it appears that bike power was something of a design after thought; there would need to be a DC-to-DC convertor or the like inline in order to break any ground loops...The ground loops are what the filter is trying to suppress but, it doesn't really address the root cause which can have rather dire effects on the device in question...This is something that we put a good amount of time into engineering out of the picture.

Another issue is one of shielding, the Mix-It uses a plastic enclosure that provides no shielding so you can get some additional electrical interference if it is located to near a strong emissions source.

I don't want to SPAM the forum so I'll leave it at that but, if anybody has any other questions I'll be more than happy to address them.

Also, if you're interested in adding audio to your motorcycle check out our website - www.tesseractcorp.com...We've just made the xma3 V.2 available...The website is newly updated with some of the other items that we are working on bringing to market as well...

-Todd