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| Registered: December 22, 2008 |  Posts: 76 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm looking for the best quality wireless headphone for my home theater. Currently I'm using Sennheiser RS-120 http://www.sennheiserusa.com/private_headphones_wireless-headphones_009920They're pretty good, but there is a constant light "hiss", noticeable during quiet/silent parts of movies. The hiss is just white noise, not interference (I've done experiments). As a result, I've gone back to wired headphones for most of my movie watching. I'm thinking that wireless digital headphones would be the way to go, perhaps using Blutooth rather than analog RF. Anyone know of anything like this? Thanks, Poo |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,916 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've experienced the hiss on bluetooth stereo headsets as well. They weren't top-of-the-line (more like middle) though. | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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| Registered: February 7, 2009 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've been through 3 diffrent types of wireless headphones, 2 from Sennheiser, 1 From Energy, I loved the convience of the wireless headphones, but the audio quality was horrible on them all.
I ended up taking them all back to the store and picked up a pair of HD555's wired headphones. | | | | We Are What We Are |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 |  Posts: 183 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have the same hissing problem with my Sennheiser HDR-110, but only on my reciever.. When I plugged it in my mp3 player the hissing completed disappeared. I think that the problem lies with my reciever, it's a quite cheap JVC model så the connection probably isn't prefect  | | | | A simple movie lover.. |
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| Registered: December 22, 2008 | | Posts: 76 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Eserage: Quote:
I have the same hissing problem with my Sennheiser HDR-110, but only on my reciever.. When I plugged it in my mp3 player the hissing completed disappeared. I think that the problem lies with my reciever, it's a quite cheap JVC model så the connection probably isn't prefect My wireless are also connected to the receiver, and they hiss. (I'm the originator of this thread). However, if I plug in wired headphones into the receiver, there is no hiss. So I can't say the hiss is being caused by the receiver. BTW, I've switched to wired.... Poo |
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,580 |
| | Posted: | | | | I was also thinking of picking up a pair of quality wireless headphones, but after reading about the hissing issues that seem to plague virtually all of them (read here as well as other sites), I'm thinking of instead going with a wired set. It's less practical but the quality should indeed be better. | | | Blu-ray collection
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | I also have middle-priced wireless Sennheiser headphones and suffered about that noise, untill I found a solution which makes it a lot better. If you use them thru AV receiver, set receiver volume very loud and headphones volume as low as possible. That did the trick for me. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 820 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have an older set of Sennheiser RS65 wireless headphones. No hiss. It may depend on what model you have. These were considered an upmarket model compared to the RS120. They don't appear to be for sale anymore but an upmarket Sennheiser set might not have the hiss. |
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| Registered: March 17, 2007 | | Posts: 183 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kulju: Quote:
I also have middle-priced wireless Sennheiser headphones and suffered about that noise, untill I found a solution which makes it a lot better. If you use them thru AV receiver, set receiver volume very loud and headphones volume as low as possible. That did the trick for me. Hmm interresting.. Worth a try. | | | | A simple movie lover.. |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,404 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Eserage: Quote:
Quoting Kulju:
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I also have middle-priced wireless Sennheiser headphones and suffered about that noise, untill I found a solution which makes it a lot better. If you use them thru AV receiver, set receiver volume very loud and headphones volume as low as possible. That did the trick for me.
Hmm interresting.. Worth a try. I'm sure you are aware of the danger of this approach, unless you have a separate headphone volume control or headphone amp, you stand the chance of blowing your speakers or damaging your ears when the earphones are pulled out while the volume is high ... | | | Thanks for your support.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mediadogg: Quote:
I'm sure you are aware of the danger of this approach, unless you have a separate headphone volume control or headphone amp, you stand the chance of blowing your speakers or damaging your ears when the earphones are pulled out while the volume is high ... Yep, I'm aware of that. That's why (one of the reasons) I have limited the maximum volume of my amplifier much lower than the max output. That's a nice feature by the way... |
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