[access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:17:27 +0000
I'm not really sure what I meant; I was told by a friend that some
headphones has a transmitter built in, but maybe such doesn't exist?
Anyway thanks for the reply Carol and I hope that made things clearer
for James.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:03:30 -0000, "Carol Pearson"
<carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I think Chris was meaning that he wanted the battery pack in the main
> headphone set. I guess that will add weight though, or you may be able
> to
> get some with a battery pack which hangs down a little from the phones
> themselves. Mike has a Sennheiser set like that.
>
> --
> Carol
> carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:48 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
>
>
> > 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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