TV Headphones recommendations

[Lorenzl]

I would think there are a few others on the forum with hearing problems and could do with some suggestions for headphones.

My high frequency hearing is very bad due to machinery noise and I have problems hearing the TV and the wife! I have tried some Avantree Opera Headphones which were easy to setup and comfortable but I still can't hear very well. I see some headphones have an app but I am not sure if it woks with a TV - settings saved to the headset or just the phone . Anyone have some experience with Bluetooth headphones you can adjust?

 

[Steliz]

I've been using Anker Soundcore Life Q30 for a few years and I have no complaints. I have the same higher frequency gaps with my hearing which means I can't hear higher pitch voices/noises and I am not able to hear conversations in noisy environments. They are Bluetooth, have a good battery, noise cancelling and other modes but that is the limit of any adjustments and I'm not aware of any app. They are also nearly half price at he moment.

 

[kinverkid]

Another one here (hear) for the Anker Soundcore but mine are Q20. I got mine cheap but I don't know if it was half price. Telly picks them up automatically and can pause playback from controls on right earpiece. Easy to switch to mobile phone for music, books and calls.

 

[Dabop]

I would think there are a few others on the forum with hearing problems and could do with some suggestions for headphones.

My high frequency hearing is very bad due to machinery noise and I have problems hearing the TV and the wife! I have tried some Avantree Opera Headphones which were easy to setup and comfortable but I still can't hear very well. I see some headphones have an app but I am not sure if it woks with a TV - settings saved to the headset or just the phone . Anyone have some experience with Bluetooth headphones you can adjust?

Avoid bluetooth if you can avoid it, many introduce delays in the audio (leaving everything looking like a badly dubbed Japanese movie lol)

I did a setup for my mum who has severe hearing loss (especially in the higher frequencies) and used a separate audio amp with bass and treble controls (she cranks the treble way up) fed from the audio out on the TV into the audio inputs on the amp, and from that the headphones output goes into an RF (radio) rather than bluetooth transmitter to a set of relatively cheap headphones (only so she doesn't have a cable stretching from the TV to her chair)
(if you have an old graphic equaliser lying around, then that would work equally well instead of the amp with tone controls) all you want is boosting the treble while keeping the bass down...)

 

[kinverkid]

Avoid bluetooth if you can avoid it, many introduce delays in the audio (leaving everything looking like a badly dubbed Japanese movie lol)

I have never experierienced a lag with any of the many Bluetooth headphones I've used over years of using them. Even the cheap ones.

 

[Yojevol]

I treated myself with a pair of Sennheiser Momentum 4's last Christmas. They're very good but I only chose those because they were the most comfortable to wear out of those on offer in John Lewis. Audio delay is inevitable with Bluetooth but it is acceptable IMO. Noise cancellation is not 100% but again usually acceptable. I remove my hearing aids when using. The sound quality through the phones is infinitely better than what is achievable through my aids.
One anomaly I have found when watching TV is that the setup works well with live TV. We set the basic sound level for my wife when we switch on; I can then set my own level, with the TV remote when the phones are paired. However this doesn't work when watching catchup via the Internet. In this case the phones take over complete control of the TV set. This may be a problem peculiar to our Samsung TV.
Brian

 

[Lorenzl]

I did try some Anker Q20i with my laptop but sent them back as they kept loosing connection. Reading up on it there can be problems with computers due to the driver or something. I didn't think about trying them with my TV as I didn't think it had Bluetooth hence buying the Avantree Opera set. I didn't notice any sync problems with them. They were optical from the TV to a transmitter and then Bluetooth to the headset.
I could use wired but my TV doesn't have a 3.5mm audio output - Samsung - but from what I reads it can cut out the TV speaker.

I may try another set of Anker; I can't remember how they sounded now.