# Want to buy some wireless headphones **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-buy-some-wireless-headphones/330388 "2005-11-10T14:15:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-buy-some-wireless-headphones/330388/1 "2005-11-10T14:15:32Z")
Looking for advice … 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, 1. Do they make a lightweight wireless headphone/headset suitable for listening to streaming audio from my computer throughtout my house? 2. Or should I pay a little more and kill two birds with one stone? 3. Or is that not really possible since a hi-fidelity wireless headphone isn’t going to have the range I’m looking for? TIA!! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-buy-some-wireless-headphones/330388/2 "2005-11-10T14:29:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-buy-some-wireless-headphones/330388/3 "2005-11-10T14:39:15Z")
> [@What the .... ?!?!](#): > > 1. Do they make a lightweight wireless headphone/headset suitable for listening to streaming audio from my computer throughtout my house? > > 2. Or should I pay a little more and kill two birds with one stone? > > 3. Or is that not really possible since a hi-fidelity wireless headphone isn’t going to have the range I’m looking for? 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 ): > **[Wireless Headphones](https://www.headphones.com/collections/wireless-headphones)** > > Lose all the wire tangles with wireless headphones. Wireless headphones technology has grown as fast. Enjoy 365-day returns & free shipping! Click on the various models - they have brief write-ups for most. You also might poke around some headphone forums, like at [http://www.head-fi.org/](http://www.head-fi.org/) - Tamerlane