Sony MDR-IF240RK Wireless Headphone System by Sony
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Digital camera reviews of Sony MDR-IF240RK Wireless Headphone System
Digital camera Review: Bad range
Summary: 1 Stars
These headphones wont even work 5 feet away in a separate room from where the base unit is placed. Returned them. This might be my first return on anything I bought from Amazon.Digital camera Review: Bad sound
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this unit to watch TV in the bedroom. The headset received is over sensitive, you have to sit in a straight line with the base station to get sound with out cracking. And if you sit still, the sound quality is still pour!
Sorry Sonny!
Digital camera Review: Bad sound quality & defective
Summary: 1 Stars
I thought that wireless was a great idea; but was very disseminated in this product. My biggest complaint, other then the sending unit being defective was the sound quality. The sound quality was worse than an old AM station.Digital camera Review: Barely adequate but it does the job
Summary: 3 Stars
I have previously owned a really good pair of Sennheiser RF headphones, and I have a kid with autism that doesn't understand when he is playing his TV too loud, so after a lot of grief I taught him how to use the cordless headphones. He liked them because he could run around and still hear everything, and nobody would bother him because the TV was too loud.
When the Sennheisers died I picked up two pairs of these Sony headphones, hoping to have one set on his TV, one set on his iMac.
Problems:
1. These earphones are single frequency. You can't have two pairs in the same general area because there is going to be some interference as soon as the base station coverage overlaps.
2. These earphones are infrared, not RF. This means that they must be in line-of-sight of the base station. Even walking in front of them will cut off the signal. A kid playing with these earphones will hear the cutoff the second he walks beyond the beam from the base station. With RF earphones, he can walk around up until the maximum reach and still hear the signal.
That said, and within their limits, they do work. The kid refuses to touch them, but they are still useful to us. The way our family room and my home office are arranged, the base station connected to my wife's laptop interferes with the base station connected to my HDTV. This is fixed simply by moving one of the base stations. It is not a perfect arrangement, but for the cost they do work. I use mine mostly to play video games, the sound is decent, and the headsets are weightless when compared to my Sennheisers.
I don't regret the purchase, but I would have switched to a different model had I noticed that they are single channel. I am even willing to live with the tradeoff between RF and infrared, but the single channel thing almost had me return them.
Digital camera Review: Beats Sennheiser
Summary: 5 Stars
Except for the smallish head set it far surpasses the more costly Sennheiser in quality of sound in the room being used.(Will not work thru the walls)Uses rechargable battery or AAA alkaline.(single battery)