Noise Headphones

I work from home all the time. My wife has the tv on all the time because she actually likes the background noise. I had to buy her a set of tv headphones so I didn’t have to listen to the tv while trying to work. I bought her a wireless set. If you tv is located close to your couch or bed you can get ones with a cord. I choose wireless for her because she likes to walk around the house with the tv on.

These new wireless headsets are very lightweight and obvisously not having a cord to trip over is a nice bonus. You will want to be rechargeable batteries because the cordless option does use some power.

If you can’t tell, there are two basic types of tv headphones. Cordless and those with a cord. They have a few other features that regular headphones do not have. A great feature is they have independent volume and balance controls. With this you can adjust the volume in the one ear and make it louder than the other. This is great if you have something like an ear infection on one side.

Some headphones still have monophonic playback. These are for television sets with one audio output so you may need this feature. Most every new television made today have stereo outputs so monophonic playback will be obsolete soon.

Wireless tv headphones can in IR and RF versions. IR is short for infrared, and uses the same technology used in your remote control. Some people like not having radio waves emitted from a headset. The negative sie to theis technology is you need a line of sight between the transmitter and receiver. So if your headphones are under a blanket or behind a chair, or walk to the bathroom or kitchen, the sound will disappear.

RF stands for radio frequency and you can walk around the house and these headphones will still work. The transmitter will work through the walls and my wife loves being able to hear the tv anywhere in the house.