[access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
- From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:48:05 -0000
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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