Are there such things as "decent wireless headphones"

[viceroy]

Do they exist?

The reason I ask is I usually turn my xbox on late in the evening when the wife has gone to bed, and with the xbox being 4m from when I'm playing I really don't want a cable dangling between myself and the console.

[Mervin]

Yes, look at Sennheisers
But just for playing games... Philips maybe..

[dotVIBE]

Yeah, the Sennheiser RS series will do ya. obviously the higher number the better. The RS160's are pretty good.

http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/home_en.nsf/root/private_headphones_wireless-headphones

[dotVIBE]

But just for playing games... Philips maybe..

true dat!

[ludo]

I looked at the RS sets (around R1500 IIRC so probably RS120) at HFX and they seemed quite nice and solid. Didn't listen to them though. Noticed a "compression" LED on the transmitter. Apparently it's a standard FM type transmitter so one needs dynamic range compression to "fit things in" into the available bandwidth, as it were. Many wireless microphones have the same drawback. Very useful for speech and TV, but not so good for music.

The RS 160 etc uses a different transmission scheme, more like a wireless network, so should be a nice improvement in sound quality. Much more dynamic range. Its 20m transmission should do for most applications but it's not exactly cheap then.

Depends how seriously you take your gaming I guess.

[MorneDJ]

I have a pair of wireless senn's which I bought demo from some hifi shop for R500 I think. And I can highly recommend them. I cannot recall the model, and I am to lazy to walk to the lounge to go and check, but I think is is the bottom of the range. Even so, the quality is brilliant, compared to my other senns I use in the office. I even can go to the bathroom or office, and have good reception (I can still follow whatever I am watching

[Stefan]

I have the sennheiser RS110, they go for around R1k. It's okay I guess, not the best bass I've heard, but should be fine for gaming.
They have a range of 100m. I use them mostly when I'm busy in the workshop.

[Nidri]

Hi

Sennheiser has some highly regarded wireless cans using Bluetooth technology, e.g. the PX 210 BT.

Don't get a skrik when I say Bluetooth - these use a special, designed-for-hifi Bluetooth profile called apt-X.
(apt-X was developed for pro use and sounds a lot better than the A2DP (average) or SBC (ghastly) profiles.)

apt-X is also used by Chord in the latest revision of their Gem DAC, and Creative has released some good implementations of the technology like the D5 wireless iPod speaker dock.

The downside is you'll also need to buy a separate Bluetooth dongle/transmitter like the BTD300.

Still, a much better solution, technically speaking, than any kind of FM-based wireless tech.

Nidri