Bluetooth headphone recommendations

olias

Hi all,

I am after a recommendation for a cheap pair of bluetooth headphones to use with a tablet device. Its just to watch TV/films/you tube etc, and listen to occasional music - not bothered about amazing sound quality but it would be nice to get the best i can obviously.
I don't like buds, prefer over ear or on ear style, and they must be rechargeable.

Any suggestions as there are loads on places like ebay and I don't know where to start! Thanks

Oh, and apparently some suffer from slight lag which isn't a problem listening to music, but which I want to avoid for TV/Video etc.

Olias

danthemoneysavingman

what are your options so far then?

Cisco001

Have you got a budget?

I have no idea which Bluetooth headphone is better. I suggest you go to Head-fi.org to ask, there are more experts.

Edit: Forgot to say have you got ordinary headphone? You can buy a bluetooth receiver to turn that to wireless.
http://www.7dayshop.com/avantree-saturn-universal-bluetooth-audio-transmitter-receiver-with-aptxr?backUrl=L2hlYWRwaG9uZXMtYXVkaW8tdmlzdWFsP2NhdD02MDkmc2l0ZWlkPTQyMDc4JnNvdXJjZT13ZWJnYWlucw==

olias

These are the ones I was looking at -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/7dayshop-Series-Bluetooth-Wireless-Headphones/dp/B002Q4TBJ4/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2TJWUZSE853DV&coliid=I3IGVMHL4KESOH

They have an average of 4.5/5 out of 418 reviews which is a great endorsement, however one of the reviews mentions....

'Now this may be inherent to all bluetooth headsets, or maybe the fault of these headphones, but there's lag. Probably <500ms lag between the device playing the sound and the headphones blurting them to my ear. This makes watching videos on my laptop and iPhone painful (especially if people are visibly talking), but if it's just music you're interested in, for the price I'd say this is definitely a good product to go for.'

which is what worries me as I want to watch a lot of TV/film/video.

Olias

RobTang

olias wrote: »

'Now this may be inherent to all bluetooth headsets, or maybe the fault of these headphones, but there's lag. Probably <500ms lag between the device playing the sound and the headphones blurting them to my ear. This makes watching videos on my laptop and iPhone painful (especially if people are visibly talking), but if it's just music you're interested in, for the price I'd say this is definitely a good product to go for.'

which is what worries me as I want to watch a lot of TV/film/video.

Olias

This is the case, however there is a bit of "it depends".
Some devices are clever enough to introduce a bit a bit of lag to the video stream so it syncs ups, others also reduce the compress rate or use a faster codec so the lag is minimised (however both devices need to support it).
If you want to completely sacrifice audio quality you can use the "telephone" codec which is used during phone calls this has much much less lage but sounds terrible.


So there's a bit of maybe about it.


From experience I've found there to be less audio sync mismatch over bluetooth on Android devices than on iOS devices.

olias

Thanks for that, it is an Android device, I think for the price they are probably worth a punt.

Anyone else have any comments or have used bluetooth headphones for TV/video on tablets I would welcome your comments.

Olias