Customer Reviews:
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 works great September 4, 2010
R. MENDOLIA
Some of the attribute questions asked are not applicable. How can you ask me about durability and battery life when I just purchased the item?
It was very easy to set up, works great and unlike a lot of reviews posted on it there is no problem with setting it in the cradle and making the recharging connection.
I purchased it for my 82 year old mom so that she can watch TV late at night without disturbing others with the high volume she listens at. If she can work this item it is totally easy!
 good, basic wireless headphone August 26, 2010
eMCee (Chicago, IL USA)
Currently have 2 of these, and have given some away as gifts.
GOOD:
- cheap (when on sale)
- reasonable sound quality
- comfortable
- easy to hookup and use
BAD:
- IR range is somewhat limited (line-of-sight)
- sound quality is not that good at higher volumes
- durability not quite as hoped - my father-in-law blew his out quickly
- battery life is only fair
Very good August 24, 2010
Jen
Battery great when put back into charging station between use, but runs low if not. Easy to use, but input jack sometimes comes loose. Seems durable so far; time will tell.
 uncomfotable! August 23, 2010
anonymouse
I am really disappointed with this product. I have always had good luck with Sony but these are uncomfotable and have about 5 ft. of range. Bad product Sony.
Barely adequate but it does the job August 21, 2010
Pedro A. Vera (Reston, VA United States)
I have previously owned a really good pair of Sennheiser RF headphones, and I have a kid with autism that doesn't understand when he is playing his TV too loud, so after a lot of grief I taught him how to use the cordless headphones. He liked them because he could run around and still hear everything, and nobody would bother him because the TV was too loud.
When the Sennheisers died I picked up two pairs of these Sony headphones, hoping to have one set on his TV, one set on his iMac.
Problems:
1. These earphones are single frequency. You can't have two pairs in the same general area because there is going to be some interference as soon as the base station coverage overlaps.
2. These earphones are infrared, not RF. This means that they must be in line-of-sight of the base station. Even walking in front of them will cut off the signal. A kid playing with these earphones will hear the cutoff the second he walks beyond the beam from the base station. With RF earphones, he can walk around up until the maximum reach and still hear the signal.
That said, and within their limits, they do work. The kid refuses to touch them, but they are still useful to us. The way our family room and my home office are arranged, the base station connected to my wife's laptop interferes with the base station connected to my HDTV. This is fixed simply by moving one of the base stations. It is not a perfect arrangement, but for the cost they do work. I use mine mostly to play video games, the sound is decent, and the headsets are weightless when compared to my Sennheisers.
I don't regret the purchase, but I would have switched to a different model had I noticed that they are single channel. I am even willing to live with the tradeoff between RF and infrared, but the single channel thing almost had me return them.
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