Sony MDR-RF960RK 900 MHz RF Wireless Headphones with Auto Tuning

Manufacturer:	Sony
List price:	~~$99.99~~
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Sony MDR-RF960RK 900 MHz RF Wireless Headphones with Auto Tuning

Average rating: Stars

Shockingly Bad Design

This must be amongst the worse of Sony's normally great product designs. It is very difficult to align the headphone socket (for recharging) into the baseset plug. To make it worse, the headsets dont sit well on the baseset, which causes it to fall off easily. It can take up to several minutes to get the phones to sit on the base and to align its socket......this product must have been approved for production without any product testing.

The hiss is awful, and the reception ability is bad - I use it just 10 feet from my TV but a slight turn of the head can throw off the reception.

Awful, awful, awful.....and I am even a Sony fan.

Sony MDR-RF960RK 900 MHz RF Wireless Headphones with Auto Tuning - Sony

Fantastic Product

After reading the reviews on this product I can hardly believe we're all writing about the same product! We've had our sony wireless headphones for over a year. They are perfect. The only time we had static on the headphones was when we were sitting right next to our new phone and when a neighbor was running some weird machine. We made a slight adjustment and everything went back to normal. These were bought because of my husband's hearing problem. He loves the unit. I've even noticed it helps to wear the ear phones when watching movies as you hear more background movie sound. I wear the earphones while cleaning also when I'm outside with the dog and can even use them when I'm working in the apartment next door. There is no change in sound quality. I'm buying another set for us and a set for my sister's home. Everyone fights over who's going to use them! This product rates the "BEST BUY" we've made in a long time.

Sony - Sony MDR-RF960RK 900 MHz RF Wireless Headphones with Auto Tuning

Horrible product in every way

I was using a really nice pair of Koss corded headphones that only cost like $30. Unfortunatly, they broke. The reason was the cord (being so long) always got wrapped around my armrest and under my wheels and it would pull my speaker (where the headphones were plugged into) or the headphones off of the desk and bring them crashing to the ground. Finally, the earcup snapped off.

I thought it best to replace them with some wireless headphones so it wouldn't happen anymore. I went and did some reasearch, all the wireless headphones seems to have at least some complaints, so I went with the Sony, largely based on brand and what was written on the box. BIG MISTAKE.

These are total garbage. Here are the biggest of the many 100 problems:

Audio Quality - This is awful. I have always a constant and LOUD hiss. I have adjusted all sorts of volume controls on the computer and it can not be removed.

Transmitter - This has to be the worst. When the transmitter is sitting on my desk. Facing me, I get no reception....huh? That's what I said. So when I take my headphones off the stand, I have to turn the transmitter to the left or right. It seems it doesn't transmit a full 360 degrees. Turning it left or right a little works until I move, if i slid around or work off the other monitor, I lose my sound once again. What I have actually been doing is turning the transmitter upside down, just setting it on its top/side. This was I never slid into an area that doesn't have sound. Also, upside down the hiss remains at the lowest I have ever gotten it, but it is still loud. The last, and most hated problem is the loss of connection. This happens about every 15 minutes. While the headphones are in use, the power light on the base will turn off and the headphones, still on my head with all kinds of volumes set to max will POP! and then HISSSSS very very loudly. This is when knock the headphones off and curse at them. The worse version of this situation is when I use the headphones late at night, and decide to cut the music off to concentrate or talk to someone online, and after 2 or 3 minutes of silence, the headphones POP! scaring the crap out of me.

Plugs - Everytime I want to use the headphones, I can't just pick them up off the base and put them on. The get sound, I have to remove them from the base and put them on, then take the transmitter base and unplug the power cable, wait and then plug it back in. After that, I get my sound and hiss until the next POP! at which point I have to repeat that procedure.

Those are the three biggest problems. Just overall total bad quality, bad design in the transmitter, problems with the bases power, and much more.

Also, don't forget the POP! To simulate this yourself, get a single firecracker and a snake, hold both to your ear and have someone light the firecracker. The firecracker will POP!, hurting your ear and make the snake begin hissing. This is what I hear every 15 minutes using these headphones.

I wouldn't not recommend these to ANYONE.

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