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wireless dts headphones
UncleM1ch4el
14-02-2015
Hi. Been ages since I purchased any wireless headphones. I am looking for a good quality sound that last and quality headphones, with ideally 7.1 and dts sound. Looking to spend around £200, any suggestions? They will be plugged into an audio out jack on my av receiver.

Been looking at these but not sure if there are newer versions on the market has they have been out a while?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-MDR-DS6...ess+headphones
chrisjr
14-02-2015
What audio out jack do you mean? It would have to be some sort of digital out to get surround sound out of it. Certainly in Dolby or DTS format. The headphone jack will be stereo and is very unlikely to contain any surround information.

You might get Dolby ProLogic out of it but even that is doubtful as most people probably only ever plug stereo headphones in so encoding it to ProLogic is probably a waste of time for that application.
grahamlthompson
14-02-2015
Originally Posted by chrisjr:
“What audio out jack do you mean? It would have to be some sort of digital out to get surround sound out of it. Certainly in Dolby or DTS format. The headphone jack will be stereo and is very unlikely to contain any surround information.

You might get Dolby ProLogic out of it but even that is doubtful as most people probably only ever plug stereo headphones in so encoding it to ProLogic is probably a waste of time for that application.”

I have these phones. They have a toslink input as well as analogue inputs. they decode DTS and ac3. (they do have a 5.1 decoder and PLIIX )

Zoom in on the phones you can see the led's indicating source audio content.

Range is more limited than a pair of Sennheiser (analogue transmission) phones.

If you have multiple sources you need to use a optical switch if your AV kit doesn't have a dedicated toslink output.
UncleM1ch4el
16-02-2015
Thx for the advice. Is there any Av receivers with optical out for headphone jack?
chrisjr
16-02-2015
Originally Posted by UncleM1ch4el:
“Thx for the advice. Is there any Av receivers with optical out for headphone jack?”

There is this

http://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/aud..._g/?mode=model
Which needs this to complete the system
http://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/aud..._g/?mode=model

5 grand or so all in.

Not found anything else yet.
UncleM1ch4el
16-02-2015
Way out of my budget I'm afraid. I would never pay more than 400 to 600 pounds on a Av receiver with speakers. You would think it would be a common output on most mid Av systems for modern headphones.
grahamlthompson
17-02-2015
Originally Posted by UncleM1ch4el:
“Way out of my budget I'm afraid. I would never pay more than 400 to 600 pounds on a Av receiver with speakers. You would think it would be a common output on most mid Av systems for modern headphones.”

If your amplifier supports passing audio to hdmi and also to speakers at the same time (or if you are prepared to switch the menu option to use headphones) a passthrough hdmi audio extractor will provide a s/pdif feed for the phones.

Eg

http://www.dx.com/p/2-ch-5-1-ch-hdmi...Q#.VOMS4GdyamQ
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