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(More customer reviews)I was in the market for a set of headphones and saw these at the store for $9 and figured they were worth a try as I needed headphones in a hurry and could test out the wireless feature before I committed to a better set. The main reason I wanted to try wireless headphones is so I could watch television at night and not wake my girlfriend. For $9 I wasn't expecting much but at least wanted them to last me a few weeks/months and see if wireless was something I wanted to pursue.
After using the headphones for a few days I can say for certain they are not worth anywhere near the $9 price I paid. The headphones themselves are made of cheap plastic and are flimsy. The padding at the headband and earpieces my girlfriend accurately described as "tissue paper". One bout of sweat or travel in a backpack would do these headphones in. The quality of the sound is no better than the free pair would would get with a cheap CD player. Scratchy, quiet, inaccurate; just all around bad sound quality. Your Apple standard earbuds will provide better sound isolation and greatly improved sound quality. That being said, if they were able to transmit my TV audio to my bed 15' away it might be worth the cost, but it didn't even come close.
The RF transmitter states that it runs on DC adapter or 2 AAA batteries. There is no DC adapter and I doubt the batteries would give more than a few days of service. The headphones offer a scanning FM radio which functions by cycling through the FM band and stopping on what it feels is an in-tune station. The transmitter broadcasts on one of these FM bands so you have to continue to press the scan button until you find the desired audio. When using mine, the transmitter broadcast on a frequency I know to be a common radio frequency used in my and other cities, so unless i was within 3' of the transmitter the stronger signal from the local radio overshadowed the transmitter. So poor was the signal strength, if I turned my head with the headset on from ~5' away from the transmitter the audio would switch between the local radio and the transmitter. Additionally, because the headset is programmed to scan until it finds a station if there was static in the signal or even radio silence the headset would scan to the next avaliable station making continuous listening on the FM band sustainable for only about 10 spats.
I used this headset for 2 days before I purchased a new set here on Amazon and doubt if i'll continue to use them until my package arrives. This product does not work as intended and was a total waste at what should have been a value cost. Please save yourself the trouble and do not purchase this item.
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