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Old 26-05-2008, 7:47 AM   #1
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Wireless Headphone Question

Hi,

I'm completely new to this wireless headphone thing, and was thinking of buying a pair for my father who's hard of hearing so that he could listen to tv.
I was looking at the Sennheiser RS120s but I did have one question (that may be really stupid). When the headphone transmitter is connected (I assume through the tv headphone socket) is anyone else in the room able to hear the tv. I thought that plugging headphones into the headphone socket cut off the sound for everyone else.

Please excuse my ignorance.

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Re: Wireless Headphone Question

It depends on your TV set. It's nothing to do with the headphones. Some TV's mute the headphone jack when headphones are plugged in, others do not. Some sources have fixed level headphones outputs. The best way to find out is to try it with another pair of headphones first.

The range of Sennheiser wireless headphones all have volume controls on the headphones.
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Re: Wireless Headphone Question

I may have the answer to this. It looks like the connection is via phono connections on the tv, not the headphone socket, which I'm guessing won't affect the listeneing of others.

Someone please tell me if I'm wrong!!!
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Re: Wireless Headphone Question

Still no answer on this. Isn't there anyoine out there who can help??

Asked Sennheiser direct by going on their website (over a week ago), and still no response. I hope their product is better than their support. A bona fide sales enquiry and they can't be arsed to answer a simple question!!!!
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