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These headphones fit well, and have decent sound. On the down side the 100-foot range is wishful thinking, at least indoors. I bought these headphones for use our treadmill. Unfortunately, the treadmill motor interfered with the headphones unless the transmitter was placed directly next to the treadmill, headphone volume was set low and T.V. volume was moderate. This worked out well in my house. I ran a headphone extension cord from Radio Shack from the T.V. to a table next to the treadmill and got good sound. If your T.V. doesn't have a headphone jack like mine this is a great improvement. If you are looking for a set of wireless headphones for use near the audio source, and don't need mind blowing sound, these headphones are well worth forty dollars.

Decently Comfortable, very convenient, easy to set up and use aside from poorly placed and inconveniently designed battery compartment. It is exceedingly difficult to insert batteries into the half-battery height compartment which opens above left ear phone and to get them in place, but its worse to remove them despite presence of a ribbon in the compartment meant to ease the process. I write the following with the advisory that I evidently had a defective unit: thinking fresh batteries might cure the initially less than satisfactory sound volume, I (with extended effort) replaced the initial, presumeably weak batteries with a fresh pair. The batteries immediately overheated to the point of being untouchable and I feared the headphones might melt, and only finally removed the batteries after an insane amount of effort and prying with other objects, after which I decided the lower half of the battery compartment cover would likely break before long due to the force required to remove batteries, and decided to return the unit - therefore never getting opportunity to effectively judge the sound. I have been using the Emerson backphone headphones for years and find them a spectacular value with fine sound.

I have been through bunches of wireless headphones. There are three transmitters stationed around the house now.

This one works much better than any of them, with solid clean signal all around the house.

But once you put those batteries in, they're in for life. You can get them out with several minutes' aggressive effort with tools, but you'll get tired of doing this. Maybe somebody should have designed this thing competently in the first place.

The headphones themselves are the small cushioned type that just clumsily sit on your year. Not painful but you couldn't call them comfortable.

I needed a simple wireless headphone and got this for a great price. I just needed something to use when watching tv late at night so that I don't disturb others. Works great for tv use. You just simply plug the base unit into the tv's headphone jack, plug the cord into the outlet and you're ready to go. I can watch tv from across the room and go to another area of the room and still listen to what's going on. It's got a decent range. I got the Sennheiser wireless for the stereo in the living room. I use these for the bedroom tv and it does the job. I had to pay a lot for the Sennheiser and I wasn't going to pay a lot just to use it for the tv. I highly recommend it.

I purchased the EHP1000 in January of 2002 at the cost of $25 plus shipping, from a different on-line vendor. The unit performed nicely for a long time. However, at one point it just quit. Being mechanically and electronically able, I disassembled the unit. There is a ribbon cable that connects both sides of the headphones. This ribbon cable had several razor cuts through the insulation, just deep enough to prevent the conductors from being severed. It was obvious this was done intentionally by the person who assembled the unit.
The cable flexes internally when the headset is adjusted for different head sizes. Over time, the headset adjusting, flexed the cable internally and the wires eventually broke. I was able to replace the wires and make the unit work, but note that this unit was mechanically NEVER designed to be repaired. The ear pads thin plastic coating will flake over time. The battery replacement is aggravating; units by other manufacturers have outside access battery compartments making replacement easier. I got my use out of this unit. For the cost, it paid its own way. Would I buy another? Not since I know there are other low cost units out there, easier with which to work.