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New Headphones.
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I'd like to buy a decent pair of comfortable headphones. Can you get wireless headphones that you can use by plugging something into a USB socket on the laptop.
I don't know what to do with Bluetooth, so that's no good.
Any suggestions please?
I don't know what to do with Bluetooth, so that's no good.
Any suggestions please?
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Wireless headphones, as opposed to Bluetooth ones, normally take their signal from the headphone/
17:11 Tue 07th Jul 2020
PS: I've checked Sony's own website (where those headphones are offered for £80) and, unsurprisingly, there's nothing to indicate that they can only be used with TV sets. Indeed, there are reviews there from people who use them in lots of different ways.
Also, now I stretch my memory back far enough, I can recall using them with my netbook and two different laptops in the past.
Also, now I stretch my memory back far enough, I can recall using them with my netbook and two different laptops in the past.
Chris, that link you gave ...
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says that the Sony MDRRF811RK headphones are wireless with both Bluetooth and 3.5 mm jack being available.
Looking at them, it seems to me that they are both Bluetooth and RF, and they come with a 3.5 mm to RF adapter. If you use the adapter, you have up to 100m range (via RF, not Bluetooth) and the ability to connect to non-Bluetooth devices, and if you don't use the adapter you have a standard Bluetooth pair of headphones that you can use with a smartphone. Is that the case? It's odd because the manual makes no mention of Bluetooth, but the product description does.
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says that the Sony MDRRF811RK headphones are wireless with both Bluetooth and 3.5 mm jack being available.
Looking at them, it seems to me that they are both Bluetooth and RF, and they come with a 3.5 mm to RF adapter. If you use the adapter, you have up to 100m range (via RF, not Bluetooth) and the ability to connect to non-Bluetooth devices, and if you don't use the adapter you have a standard Bluetooth pair of headphones that you can use with a smartphone. Is that the case? It's odd because the manual makes no mention of Bluetooth, but the product description does.
Thanks, Ellipsis.
I've no idea why someone at Argos should think that those headphones support Bluetooth. (It's not the first time I've known them get a product description wrong though. I once bought a printer from Argos, having travelled many miles to get to one of the few stores that had it in stock, precisely because the catalogue said it had the type of connection that my elderly PC needed. After travelling all the way home again and opening the box, I found that it hadn't!)
Sony's own website describes those headphones as 'RF' ('radio frequency') and makes no mention of Bluetooth:
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Further, I'm using a pair of them right now and I can see no way that they could be used with Bluetooth.
So I'm as confident as I can be that Argos have got it wrong again!
I've no idea why someone at Argos should think that those headphones support Bluetooth. (It's not the first time I've known them get a product description wrong though. I once bought a printer from Argos, having travelled many miles to get to one of the few stores that had it in stock, precisely because the catalogue said it had the type of connection that my elderly PC needed. After travelling all the way home again and opening the box, I found that it hadn't!)
Sony's own website describes those headphones as 'RF' ('radio frequency') and makes no mention of Bluetooth:
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Further, I'm using a pair of them right now and I can see no way that they could be used with Bluetooth.
So I'm as confident as I can be that Argos have got it wrong again!
^^^ Anything from Bose is likely to be very good, both in terms of sound quality and comfort, CAC. It's just one's bank balance that they're not so good for!
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Tills....Bluetooth is the way to go. I am sure we have been here before when you were looking for Mr T. Base station set ups are done with. Some good "bins" out there and you can pay the earth and have to deal with a set up that you are not familiar with if you are prepared to risk it. But you can pick up these very nice Marshall III phones with 40 quid off at Curry's at the mo. They deliver free or you can collect or even shop and have a look at them. I think the brown ones are more you than the harsh black ones and the output range is very sympathetic to the older but discernible ear. Remember...you get what you pay for.
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>>> Remember...you get what you pay for
Agreed but there's no much point in paying for really expensive headphones if they are are to be used with a laptop that almost certainly only features 'onboard audio'. A real hifi enthusiast would demand that a computer has a separate sound card in order to obtain the best possible quality audio. (i.e. even the best headphones in the world won't produce studio quality sound if you don't feed studio quality sound into them to start with).
Agreed but there's no much point in paying for really expensive headphones if they are are to be used with a laptop that almost certainly only features 'onboard audio'. A real hifi enthusiast would demand that a computer has a separate sound card in order to obtain the best possible quality audio. (i.e. even the best headphones in the world won't produce studio quality sound if you don't feed studio quality sound into them to start with).
Marry87's post gets straight to the point but I can't help wondering if the product recommended might not be somewhat over-specified for Tilly2's fairly basic needs?
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