Not Poor For The Money But Not Too Durable – B Headphones Review

I called Sennheiser customer service and they said to continue to use them and this would correct itself and if not to get back to them. They were easy to contact and their response was correct.

The sound quality has always been great relative to other headphones I have tried, and I had no reason to change to another model except for two things. First, the rotary volume control can easily change if you are lying down and make contact against the controls. The sound starts breaking up at about 25 feet but because I am sitting maybe 10 feet from my big screen 99% of the time this is not a big deal. The thing I dislike most is the volume up/on-off/volume down button set on the underside of the right ear piece.

I listen to classical music mostly (90%) along with a bit of rock music and others (10%). To me, it took about 20 hours of listening to break in. Also, you have to turn the base on to listen to stuff. The previous models turned on automatically when there was a signal. It has completely worthless buttons on the side that are too small and flat and unusable while you are wearing. You have to take off the phones to adjust volume, etc.

If these were stolen, I’d buy them again. The only con could be that, although the ear pads are very cushioned, my ears are a bit larger than the inside of the phone pad.

I use these for watching TV when my wife has gone to bed or play my video game when so she can listen to the radio and we don’t compete with each other for sound. I have to say the sound quality is there. They just take some getting used to. All things considered, I highly recommend them. The RS 180 features ALC, which will boost mid-range in the interest of speech intelligibility. If you find it is too much, you can turn it off. Inside the house I get about 30 to 40 feet before it starts cutting out. House was built in the 70′s and there’s not a lot of internal wall insulation.

I think most people would still prefer the manual controls on the RS140 instead of the RS180s digital controls if they had could try both. This seems to be a sad case where Senheisser tried to ‘upgrade’ the product by installing fancier digital controls, but sacrificed, perhaps unwittingly, usability. If I did this, I could not hear the TV. The Sennheiser RD180 has solved all our problems. This is simply not true, and I don’t know why he told me this. This is not a negative about the 180′s since maybe nobody is looking for this feature except me, but it is a severe mis-statement of fact by a Sennheiser representative. This is where the warm fuzzies of these headphones really paid off. In this casual close-mic setting I felt as if I was actually there & had to resist the urge several times to turn around & “see” the rest of the crowd.

I suppose I did not read carefully enough prior to searching “buy headphones online”, everything’s fantastic, but the cord is about ten feet long! The set on these rf wireless headphones is big although not uncomfortably so. RF WIRELESS HEADPHONES. These headphones are huge with a huge cable. If you are moving around a lot with them, expect the long wire to get in the way. INFRARED WIRELESS HEADPHONES.