[access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:26:48 +0000
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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