I did the headsets for a few reasons. It does get noisier in the truck with the cage exiting the cab and with the longer travel things tend to clink and clunk a bit. Also, it makes it very easy to converse with co-drivers and back seat drivers by not having to raise voices. What is really great is that the race radio is piped in and you can set the PCI intercom squelch at a level of your liking to have the race radio over-ride or underplay both conversation and the music that you are listening to. The PCI intercom has both hardwire device listening such as phone/music and bluetooth. Also, it just looks and feels cool!