[access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:49:07 +0000
James,
I was under the impression that you can buy wireless headphones that has
a transmitter built in. I apologize for the error, but please be aware
I've never used wireless headphones so I'm new to this technology.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:48:05 -0000, "James O'Dell"
<jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi Crhis
>
> Could you explain this please? How can you have wireless headphones
> without
> a base unit? Surely there has to be some piece of kit connecting the
> headphones to the audio input on whatever you're listening to, or there
> has
> to be a wire, in which case they're not wireless headphones.
>
> James
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:26 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
>
>
> > Yes, these sound great actually. I can always get help to set up the
> > arial, but after that I guess I'm all to go. I saw one, however, from
> > Sony, that doesn't need a base unit; it comes built in to the
> > headphones. Thanks for the description.
> > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:01:42 -0000, "Christine Weetman"
> > <goatmum@xxxxxxx> said:
> >> Hi Chris, the head phones are FM which you can hear all around your house
> >> and down the garden too, but the Infrered can only pick up in the same
> >> room
> >> And if you are in line with the beam, not good.
> >>
> >> How they work is:
> >> As I said the headphones are completely without wires. They run off two
> >> rechargable penlight batteries which can be replaced after 2/3 years.
> >> They
> >> charge whilst in the headphones, read on for how.
> >>
> >> In the box there is a small base unit (about the size of a telephone
> >> handset
> >> base. This you plug into a mains socket, You need to have a Small arial
> >> screwed in to it, which is supplied and about 3 inches long.
> >>
> >> Now we take the cable supplied and plug one end of it into the base and
> >> the
> >> other into the headphone socket of whatever you want to listen to, beit
> >> your
> >> daisy player, radio, cassette, CD or computer.
> >>
> >> Your set up now, so you fit the headphones on to your head. There is a
> >> braille letter L on the lefthand sid and R for right. One side has two
> >> wheels, one for tuning into your base units station (for want of a better
> >> word) and the other is your volume controle. If you loose the channel
> >> you
> >> will use the tuning wheel on there, but if your outdoors and can't ajust
> >> satisfactorily then go indoors and you will find a small wheel on the
> >> base
> >> to turn which will find you another channel. We live in a bunglow by the
> >> seaside so our interferance is quite bad for cordless telephones, but I
> >> have
> >> Never had trouble with the headphones my daughter and I use. Our bunglow
> >> is
> >> 30 foot from one end to the other and our garden that again and still we
> >> have sat outdoors using our headphone set.
> >>
> >> I put my hearing aid on the middle setting which is known as the T and
> >> away
> >> I go, just like being in a Fantastic Theatre, I wouldn't be without them.
> >> Trouble is I have bought 4 of these now one for of these, one for my
> >> daughter as she kept breaking her wired headphones, and she still has
> >> them a
> >> year later with no trouble at all, one for myself, my son and a spare one
> >> for when my daughters busts. Son didn't open his as he said he didn't
> >> like
> >> headphones that didn't go in your ears and the other "Spare Pair" don't
> >> seem
> >> to be needed! lol This is why I was offering them for sale, but I won't
> >> sell to anyone who has doubts because I think they are Fantastic.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps, o forgot to say, coming from the base unit is a coily
> >> short
> >> cable which is fitted and not removable so you can't mix the cables up,
> >> the
> >> plug on this goes into the socket on your headphones and charges them.
> >> You
> >> put them on charge for 24 hours the first time but after that only 2
> >> hours
> >> will give you hours of listening.
> >>
> >> Christine W, in Answer to your doubts and questions. ----- Original
> >> Message -----
> >> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:15 PM
> >> Subject: [access-uk] Wireless headphones
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> From a blind person's point of view, can someone thoroughly explain to
> >> me how wireless headphones work? I know they work by either RF or IR,
> >> but like to know How does the transmitter work, including whether they
> >> work on batteries or plugged in? Also, are they suitable to use for
> >> visually impaired people, and possibly people with some manual dexterity
> >> issues? Someone called Christine W is going to research some wireless
> >> headphones she's got, which I've took great interest in, since obviously
> >> there's no cables to tread on, but the other reason being is that I have
> >> moderate hearing loss and apparently they're suitable for people with
> >> that degree of deafness.
> >> Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you.
> >> Christopher Hallsworth
> >> Skype name chrishallsworth7266
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