Sennheiser RS 170 or RS 180?

Question

My situation is that I want to buy a pair of wireless headphones to allow me to watch TV and film at night without disturbing anyone else in the house, and listen to music whilst roaming about during the day. The Sennheiser RS 170's and 180's seem to come out the best for wireless headphones, however I cannot decide between the two.

The 170's are supposed to be tailor-made for watching TV and film and offer a surround sound feature to give more of a cinema feel, and with a closed-back design, they should leak less and equally keep external noise out. The 180's however don't offer the surround sound effect, but instead provide a superior level of sound quality and materials for a more comfortable experience, and with an open-back design to give a more spacious feel, but with more external noise let in and out.

My main concern with the 170's is that I have read that the surround sound feature isn't great and that many choose to not use it whilst watching movies. With the 180's, my worry is with the quality of sound for movies, and the fact that there are some occasions where I wish to block out other sounds, but I am unsure how well the 180's will do this.

A problem both of them could suffer from is a delay in transmission, meaning the sound could become out of sync with the on-screen picture, however I would like to think that they wouldn't advertise these as being suitable for TV use if this were an issue.

Any advice on which pair to get would be very welcome. Equally, if you feel there are any other headphones I should be looking at then please let me know. Thanks!

Answer 1

the rs170 i think is a discontinued model due to its not been reviewed in the



what hf-fi sound & vision magazine



or do you mean the rs160



review for the rs 180

http://www.whathifi.com/review/sennheiser-rs-180



review for the rs160

http://www.whathifi.com/review/sennheiser-rs-160



only a few months ago sennheiser released the rs220 wirless headphones, no review is available yet but here is more details of the new heaphones

http://www.whathifi.com/news/ifa-2011-sennheiser-launches-rs-220-high-end-wireless-headphones

Answer 2

RS one hundred seventy may well be the perfect decision. do no longer purchase any headphone on the muse of embody sound. The embody sound mode on them is pseudo embody sound - this is no longer actual embody. this is no longer conceivable to get actual embody sound on any he adphone except they have 5 or greater man or woman drivers according to ear cup. So in that experience this is no longer great although this isn't any worse than the different headphones that purports to offer embody sound. What concerns is the sound high quality and the noise isolation, and the two are outstanding in this style. there's no longer a great interior the sound high quality of RS one hundred seventy and RS one hundred eighty however the RS one hundred eighty does have a greater open, ethereal sound yet lacks the noise isolation. there is little if any postpone interior the audio sign so which you would be nice there.

Answer 3

Sony makes some wireless headphones