
Best of the bunch - so far
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Had a few sets of cordless headphones before this, all of the infra red variety, and all had their own merits, but were either too 'clunky' (philips) or uncomfortable after about half an hour. Investigation was needed...
After reading a lot of reviews, it was apparent these phones were either 1. 'hissy' (usually an IR problem), 2. hard to tune in, 3. easy to knock off tune, and 4. hard to keep on your head when gardening. All fair comments apart from the last one for me, but can see the point - these can be listened to almost anywhere in your property, either inside or out. So, my answers to most common 'cons' are:
1. Never found them any where near hissy unless they were badly tuned to the transmitted (you have 3 tuning post settings to use, and once locked on, I have never needed to change it)
2. See above, read the instructions and follow them, once tuned, you can forget unless below comes into it.
3. This is a possible grump, the volume and tuning rotaries are close to each other, but the volume is above the tune wheel, so if you adjust volume as I do by starting at the top and sliding finger down to first wheel, again, no problem, just need to get used to it
4. As I use these mainly for late night listening, I dont tend to go gardening at this time, but can see others problem, as they are not the closest fitting phones in the world, as the earpieces are 'flat' across the ear and dont 'cup' the ears, I can see why some get annoyed that they slide off if bending down to pick up the obligatory garden crisp packet. I welcome this the way I use them, as they dont cut off circulation or give me headaches - but if they are advertised that they can be used outside for x amount of metres, then I suppose it is a consideration?
'pros' section -
They are comfy. They do have a good range both inside and out, as they worked between rooms and up&downstairs without any break in signal, and dont have a vast garde , but was happy listening to TMF while in the sun the other day. They look like proper headphones. Battery life (so far) is excellent.
One major thing I like is that other units ive had had to unplug the mains charger when finished using, mainly due to heat in plug and transmitter. This is vastly better as once unplugged from the TV (or other source), the transmitter goes off after a short while and doesnt need power, so can only presume the transmitter sorts all this out as the mains is cool the next day, and only slightly warm (as expected) when operating, so transmitter seems to be controller like I said. Not a big problem to connect audio plug each time, if thats all you have to do, others were becoming a pig to plug power and audio in, and unplugging after use - all this needs is to plug into source, switch headphones on and its up and running.
And lastly, for a cordless setup, without a doubt the best ive had for sound quality by miles. Excellent bass, in fact excellent treble and mid too, reacts fantastic to the dolby of the TV when watching DVD's as well as digital.
Given them an 'excellent' rating despite the relevant reviews ive answered,as you can only review as they suit you, and these do. Most review these as an 'entry level' in the sennheiser cordless range, so in future would be tempted to see how good the dearer models are, but will be hard pushed to have my arm twisted at the moment, because I cant see me changing them unless they break - shop around, there are some good prices to be had! Thats all folks!
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