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45 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Poor quality product, September 25, 2001
About a month ago I wrote an extensive review of this Advent product. I was very critical. Awkward controls, poor reception, etc. The bottom line is that I thought the quality was so bad that I returned it for a refund. Then I bought a Sennheiser wireless model, and I have been mostly pleased with it. 9/25/01
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Seriously flawed, August 2, 2004
There are a number of glaring flaws with this product. I bought it to plug into my TV so I can watch the Today show in "silence" while working out or walking on the treadmill in our exercise room. I am sorely dissapointed on many levels.
Several reviewers mention the "hiss". The volume control is a cheap resistive control which gets dirt and/or oxide build-up very easily. This causes an enormous amount of static when you change the volume control and the poor connection comes through as "hiss" or static. The solution is to buy "tuner cleaner" at Radio Shack and drench the volume control in it while furiously turning it back and forth until it cleans. But for the price they could use a higher quality part...
There is ironically the same kind of connection problem with the battery. If you use "real" alkaline batteries, it works fine, but the batteries supplied with my unit are real sensitive and sometimes I have to gently tap the side of the battery door to get them to seat right.
The feel of the headphones is like a vice. They are heavy and the grip on your ears is WAY too tight, particularly if those little cartilage flaps in the front stick out like mine do. After wearing these phones for 30 minutes, it starts to hurt.
These phones are maddenly succeptible to interference from each and every other source of 900 MHz device in your neighborhood, like somebody else's phones, cordless telephone, cell phone, police phone, pager, etc. I find standing just 5 feet from the transmitter, all kinds of interference will occur and the sound will come and go. If I walk around the house, I get micro dead zones where if I stand in one place the sound turns to noise and if I move 6" the sound is fine.
The only redeeming value to these phones is that the sound is relatively good.
I would strongly recommend either a wired headphone (and just live with the cord) or one of the much more expensive models with error correction (although since I have no direct experience with them, they might not really be better.)
Knowing what I know now I would not buy these again, but would try for the more expensive "digital" spread spectrum models. At least the sound might be steady and the radio interference would be gone.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
They work well for me!, August 4, 2002
By A Customer
I like them alot! The tuning dial on the base allows for a slight changing of the frequency just in case you need to alter them. Then you just tune the headphone dial to sync them up, simple! Tuning the input is easy also if you read the directions thoroughly. I'm surprised at how well they sound, much better than I expected. The only thing I don't care for is the headband. They should have a soft headband of some sort. I also think that they squeeze a little too tight. I do like the hear through design too, so that your able to hear sounds around you while listening, so you don't miss the phone or the door being knocked on. Overall, I think they're worthy. Oh yeah, battery life in mine seems really good. Fell asleep with them on last night. Started using the H-phones about 3pm yesterday, used all last night, and am using them today for 3 or 4 hours so far, all on the same charge. I have a 900mhz security cam system, a 2.4 DSS phone, am frequently next to a PC w/2 monitors, and have no interference. Check your frequencies to see if their different before purchasing if you have other wireless stuff.
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