Headphones
I bought myself a pair of Sennheiser wireless headphones, RS140’s to be exact. I tried out wireless headphones a few years ago without great success, they just never seemed to tune into the base-station correctly, as if I was always getting some sort of interference. But again I find myself in a position where I’m using headphones more regularly and don’t want to be tethered by wires. Nor do I want to continue using earbuds which end up hurting my ears with prolonged use, I wanted giant, over the head, noise reducing ones.
And that’s how I ended up with the Sennheiser’s. At first I had problems getting them to charge, they sat on the base station and never seemed to power up at all. When I put standard AAA batteries in there however, they sprung to life right away. So after replacing the rechargable set that came with them with a new pair I was good to go, the light was green and we were off to the races.
The sound quality is pretty good, although it still doesn’t compare with wired headphones, even in these which are hardly entry level. When listening to music it’s fine, but in podcasts, which is what I’m listening to most of the time, there’s always that underlying level of radio static as if they’re not quite tuned in as well as they should be, or the base-station isn’t as powerful as it should be. Still, on balance, they’re nice and comfy, easy to use and allow me to move freely around the flat without being cut off from my audio source. So on those terms, they fit the bill nicely.
