My initial reason was to be able to listen to streaming audio from my computer throughout my house. Primarily for talk radio so was thinking about something low fidelity but with a decent range and the smaller more manageable the better. I thought I might find something comparable to a telephone headset.
I went to Best Buy for some quick research and went to the computer guy who directed me to the stereo guy. I didn’t see anything that wasn’t a large set of old-fashioned headphones. Maybe I asked the wrong guys and should have gone to the telephone department instead.
Then I got to thinking that as long as I was at it, since I don’t have a good pair of headphones why not get something that I could also listen to music with.
So to sum it up,
Do they make a lightweight wireless headphone/headset suitable for listening to streaming audio from my computer throughtout my house?
Or should I pay a little more and kill two birds with one stone?
Or is that not really possible since a hi-fidelity wireless headphone isn’t going to have the range I’m looking for?
Recoton makes a couple of options for wireless headphones. They have the big ear-muff type that are bulky and pick up the signal directly, or they have what you may be looking for, a receiving unit that picks up the signal that is about the size of an i-pod into which you can plug any pair of headphones you like.
The transmitting unit can be connected to a source via left/right RCA cables or through a headphone type jack/cable. You should be able to plug this into your computers external speakers jack.
I’ve never demo’ed any myself, but try digging through these - I find headroom to be a fairly decent resource, despite the fact that they sell them for a living ( well their big thing is headphone amps, but I’m sure most of their business these days are just the headphones ):
Click on the various models - they have brief write-ups for most.