Rating  - Sound quality good, not superb. Does the job for TV listening.
Setup tip: turn up the TV volume to about 70%, then adjust headset volume to suit. If you keep the TV volume down, then crank up the headset volume, you're gonna get alot of noise.
I am using the RS120 with a cheap color TV and DirecTV standard def box. The base station plugs into a headphone port on the TV. See comment above on setting the volume levels, before you conclude that the headphones are noisy.
I did have to charge overnight before the headphones were usable out of the box. Once charged, I used them very successfully for the first time last nite. The sound quality is good, with a very light hiss of background noise. The background noise is not annoying and is way down in level, but is good since it tells you that you the headphones are on and it's the TV program that might be silent for the moment
The comfort is nice, but if you're sitting in bed with your head against a pillow, then you may find that the pillow sort of pushes the headphone cups away from your ears. So it takes a bit of pillow punching to get everything squared away, but this unit perfectly accomplished my mission, which is: to watch TV at night without waking the spouse up.
Charging seems pretty automatic - just place the headset on the chargers hanging rack, and the red light indicates charging is going on. You don't have to be accurate about positioning.
Highly recommended. I did not give the full 5 stars just because at times I felt I heard some distortion in actors voices now and then... like a sample error of some sort... it was minor but noticeable. Not sure it wasn't the satellite downlink, but I never heard this through the TV speakers. I would recommend this unit to anybody, you will definitely be happy... I am nitpicking on holding back that 5th star.
Rating  - Headphones
Absolutely wonderful headphones for TV watching! I am hard of hearing and these have been perfect for me. They charge quickly and the sound is crisp and clear. I have had no static whatsoever. I would recommend them to anyone.
Rating - Treadmill headphone shopper?
If you are looking for a headphone set to watch television while you walk on a treadmill, this review is for you. I have not tested this product with a stereo.
I told myself to wait a few weeks before writing this review as I've only used it twice, but I can always update later if the headphones start acting up. I just bought this on Oct 10th and paid $59.50 for it. Before the headphones reached my door on Oct 16th Amazon jerked the price up ten bucks. I probably wouldn't have made the purchase at the new price--the extra ten bucks would have been the difference between the maybe and I don't know I was experiencing when trying to decide about buying it.
They need to knock that ten bucks right back off for the simple reason that the product totally lacks basic instructions. You can go to the manufacturer's website, sennheiser dot com, and look at a PDF file of the actual instructions that come in the box with the product. What you see is what you get. It comes in nine different languages in a strip about two inches wide for each language.
If you have a newer TV set and/or newer DVD player with multiple RCA output connections you won't have any problems. (Unfortunately both my TV and DVD player were older models)
As Amazon has raised the price of these, if you can find another RF (radio frequency) wireless headphone set at a cheaper price, you'd probably do just as well with those as this particular set. The key is to get a wireless RF headset and NOT an infrared headset. Wireless infrared headphones do not work with treadmills. Treadmills interrupt the infrared frequencies. So this review is more reporting on how RF headphone products work, indeed this particular product as it is the only one I've tried, but I imagine other RF headphones work equally well.
The two times I've used it so far, it has worked fantastic. I only watch DVDs while I walk on my treadmill so I have the headset's transmitter plugged directly into my DVD player. (I had to switch out my old player with a newer model from the living room that had multiple RCA outputs) I can turn down the TV volume to zero and turn up the headphones so loud they will almost knock me off the treadmill! (yeah, I turned it back down some)
I think I read a review somewhere online about this product where the reviewer said their television still had to be at about mid volume in order for the product to work--maybe that reviewer had the receiver connected to their television, whereas I have mine connected to my DVD player. As the manufacturer is silent regarding everything on the product, who knows, I can only tell you that I can turn my TV down to zero and the headphones cannot be at full volume without busting my eardrums.
I hope this helped other treadmill headphone shoppers save some of the hours I spent looking for a headphone set.
I only gave the product four stars because the manufacturer failed to provide a basic manual with the product and the quality of earphones themselves is a bit on the cheap side.
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