Cordless Headphones

Before we answer this question it is worth defining what are ‘good cordless headphones’ because what is good to one person is not good to another. Your own research is required after reading this article because some factors will be more important to you than others. This will be different for someone else, ‘one mans treasure is another mans scrap’ as they say!

Generally speaking the listening device has to place ticks against most of the following categories. Additional articles on this website will give you this information.

Criteria To Measure Against

1. The battery life can’t be too short and, where possible, rechargeable batteries need to be accommodated the base unit. This is purely a cost issue and negates you having to spend more and more money that was not built in to the initial cost of the product.

2. The transmission range needs to be adequate – anything up to the 25 foot range is acceptable HOWEVER this is personal choice depending upon what you use for the product will be.The base unit will either be infrared or transmission.

3. The product can’t be too heavy otherwise it will put pressure on your head and ears and the comfort ability of the product is impaired. This does not matter so much for short usage times but obviously does impact if you intend using it for anything over 30 minutes.

4. Looks – this is cosmetic if truth be told and you should only be concerned with practicality however they need to be made from robust material and look pleasing on the eye.

5. Sound quality – this is arguably the most important point combined with transmission range. You do not want a loss in quality in-line with how high you have the volume.

Nevertheless this is a trade-off because most headsets will give you a hiss and/ or sound clipping when you turn up the volume to maximum levels.

Cost v Quality – The Trade Off

The most popular cordless headsets are Sony MDR-IF240RK and Sennheiser RS120, you only have to look at any popular shopping website to see this. The cost of these are $40 and $65 respectively. The first tier are as much as $250 the second tier of devices are around the $60 range and at the lower end the third tier there are sets that are as low as $13. So there is quite a difference in price between the popular Sennheiser RS120 – $65 and the

Sony MDR-IF240RK which is $40, however what you have to do is measure the cost (and how affordable this is to YOU) against the quality of the product.

Like anything else you will have to compromise on something.

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