[access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:03:30 -0000
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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>> Skype name chrishallsworth7266
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