Bargain Buckets Forum - Sony Bluetooth Stereo Headphones 70% off - Page 1

Spec comparison here

So do these come with some sort of 'base station' that you plug into the headphone socket and switch on and the sound is sent wirelessly?

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We will pay the price but we will not count the cost..

no. no base station but used bluetooth to send music or other audio to the earphones. Think bluetooth headset but with a high quality stereo earphone/headphone replacing the normal monoaurial earpeice.

Right. Apparently your phone needs to support A2DP to listen to music with these earphones; the basic making/receiving calls should be okay with any bluetooth phone.

Mark_Ice on MSE says:

This product works with:

BenQ-Siemens: EF51, S88
HTC: Advantage, MTeoR, P3300, P3600, S310, S620, TyTN
i-mate: JAMin, JASJAM, Smartflip, SP JAS, SPL
LG: KE850 Prada, KE970 Shine, KG810, U300, U400, U890
Motorola: E1070, E770v, KRZR K1, KRZR K3, Q, RAZR maxx, RAZR V3xx, RIZR, RIZR Z6, V3x
Nokia: 5300, 6085, 7370, 8800, 8800 Sirocco
O2: XDA Orbit, XDA Stealth, XDA Zinc
Orange: M3100, M700, SPV C100
Qtek: 8500, 8600, S200
Samsung: D520, D600, D800, D820, D830, D840, D900, E250, E390, E760, E770, E780, E900, i300, i300x, i320, P300, P310, S401i, S500i, U600, X820, Z320i, Z510, Z560, Z650i
Siemens: CX75, S75, SL75
Sony Ericsson: K550i, K610i, K790i, K800i, M600i, P990i, V630, W610i, W710i, W850i, W880i, W950i, Z610i, Z710i
T-Mobile: Ameo, MDA Compact III, MDA Mail, MDA Vario II
Vodafone: v1605

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=421355

That post was RE the Sony DR-BT20NX but I'm sure it applies to all 3

This item was edited on Sunday, 8th April 2007, 23:16

oh dear...my phone isn't on that list.
Mine is a RAZR V3i
Motorola's web site lists a pair of their own bluetooth headphones as an accessory for the V3i, so I'll just have to hope that the Sony's will work with my mobile. If not, I’ll sell them on E-Bay
Will post back when I get them as to weather they work or not

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Motorola's web site lists a pair of their own bluetooth headphones as an accessory for the V3i,

perhaps Motorola use a propriatory technology to deliver audio, or maybe it'll deliver music but not full high quality stereo (it seems to me that A2DP headsets decode MP3 etc which means the phone can send compressed audio via bluetooth, without A2DP the audio has to be decompressed first meaning it's more limited by the bluetooth bandwith).

bit more info on A2DP from bluetooth.combluetooth.com


Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
A2DP describes how stereo quality audio can be streamed from a media source to a sink. The profile defines two roles of an audio source and sink. A typical usage scenario can be considered as the “walkman” class of media player. The audio source would be the music player and the audio sink is the wireless headset. A2DP defines the protocols and procedures that realize distribution of audio content of high-quality in mono or stereo on ACL channels. The term “advanced audio”, therefore, should be distinguished from “Bluetooth audio”, which indicates distribution of narrow band voice on SCO channels as defined in the baseband specification.

This profile relies on GAVDP. It includes mandatory support for low complexity subband codec (SBC) and supports optionally MPEG-1,2 Audio, MPEG-2,4 AAC and ATRAC.

The audio data is compressed in a proper format for efficient use of the limited bandwidth. Surround sound distribution is not included in the scope of this profile.

Bought these 5 days back for........... £79.98

Gotta say they is the dogs hangin packet... Fantastic in all area's!

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dusty which ones did you (or anyone else) buy - cant decide wether the 'over the ears' will be ok for me as Ive only ever had the 'in ear' ones..........................decisions decisions!
Juls

just phoned & cancelled my order.
Not much point in buying them If I can't use them.
Thinking about buying the Skullcandy Hesh headphones instead, if i can find a mini USB to 3.5mm headphone adapter that works- bought 3 different ones from e-bay & none have worked. Not having much luck so far……