In almost every respect, these Sennheiser RS 180 Digital Wireless Headphones are excellent: – The good experience starts with the packaging. The main box, the two inner boxes and the inner plastic container are very well designed and built like tanks.
I bought & returned 2 other different brands but none compared to these. Prior to making this purchase, I ordered the RS190s thinking that spending more $ meant a better product.
These are pretty expensive headphones, I had expected to be able to go anywhere in my house (including the porch) and get a good signal, but that hasn’t been the case. I don’t know of any good alternatives, though, so I’ll keep these and experiment with moving the transmitter so that I can get a better signal in other parts of the house. My mailbox is about 60 feet away and the headphones start cutting out- though the signal IS going through a layer of brick. Also it cuts out inside my house, at only 30 feet or so, if I am in the kitchen.
I purchased these to use with my TV. The sound is good but not as good as my pioneer SE-DHP800 infra-red head phones.
These are good headphones. The sound quality isn’t the best, for example, my Sennheiser HD 25-1 II headphones sound a bit better, but these are more comfortable and they’re open, and they’re wireless.
It is not like the way other manufacturers design their earphone. I am able to hear the sound around me and yet without having the compromised sound quality.
They have very reasonable range and auto-volume adjusts. NO extraneous noise. The quality of the RS-180 is pretty good. It only squeaks a little on the right side of the headset when I put them on, but after I have got them set, it does not squeak anymore.
I get around this by putting half a headband from a HD 280 in the groove between the cushions so that the pressure is spread between the top of my head and the sides. This works well, but why does the customer have to come up with a work around for such a problem? The only “real” problem I’ve run into so far has to do with the charging time. They’re supposed to be fully charged after 18 or 20 hours if I remember correctly. After 24 hours and 45 minutes, that little orange light was still blinking, so I gave up and used them anyway. But this is just a nitpick really, they can still be used, and it should be noted that I’m using the batteries which came in the package. After it dried in about an hour, it left those buttons with a raised “bump” that my fingers can easily find. The on/off/standby button is between the volume buttons, so it is now easy to find with my fingers also. So, I’m very happy to rate these headphones at an Excellent 5 stars out of 5. It took me a long time to pull the trigger on these headphones, but believe me it was well worth the money.
