I’m in the market for a pair of wireless headphones for work (my job requires that I move around quite a bit, so wired headphones would be a bit of an encumbrance).
What’s the general idea (and I am by no means an audiophile, so please use words that I’ll understand) of how these work? By way of comparison, for wired headphones I stick the male end of my headphone cord into a female port on the device I’m listening to (be it computer speakers, mp3 player, TV, etc.). Do the wireless headphones involve some sort of radio transmitter that is plugged into same port, and that is then converted into a (FM?) signal?
I get that. What I mean is, do I need any sort of adapter or something, or do I just plug the transmitter into the same jack where I plug my wired headphones.
The transmitter plugs in with a standard stereo audio jack into the playing device. Your transmission frequency can be adjusted some. The headphones have a radio receiver in them that you can adjust the frequency of. Hopefully you can find a frequency that doesn’t have interference. They can pick up electrical interference. Pay attention to the distance the headsets can be from the transmitter. Good padding for external sound dampening is important in a noisy environment. The closer you get to the maximum distance the more it will behave buggy. I used a good pair for about 5 years before they fell apart. Get chargeable batteries for the headset , because you will go through a couple sets a day.
One thing also, beware of any inexpensive bargain pairs. They may be older IR (infrared) models which must always have a clear line-of-sight to the transmitter.
However, your broadcast range was very short, probably less than 200 ft even in the open air. I doubt if you interfered with any emergency services unless you were in the same building as the police or fire departments.
