Sentry Industries, Inc. HO700 Wireless Headphones with Transmitter

 (8 customer reviews)

I was in the market for a set of headphones and saw these at the store for $9 and figured they were worth a try as I needed headphones in a hurry and could test out the wireless feature before I committed to a better set. The main reason I wanted to try wireless headphones is so I could watch television at night and not wake my girlfriend. For $9 I wasn't expecting much but at least wanted them to last me a few weeks/months and see if wireless was something I wanted to pursue.

After using the headphones for a few days I can say for certain they are not worth anywhere near the $9 price I paid. The headphones themselves are made of cheap plastic and are flimsy. The padding at the headband and earpieces my girlfriend accurately described as "tissue paper". One bout of sweat or travel in a backpack would do these headphones in. The quality of the sound is no better than the free pair would would get with a cheap CD player. Scratchy, quiet, inaccurate; just all around bad sound...Read more

I bought these to replace my Sentry HO900 headphones which I used so much I had wor out. These are not a good replacement option! I use wireless headphones so that I can listen to streaming radio from my PC around the house. These headphones wouldn't pick up a signal consistantly from the transmitter. They have a built in radio and to get to the frequency of the wirless transmitter you have to scan through the rest of the frequencies. Sometime when I scanned I would hear the output from my PC but then the signal would cut out almost immediately and the radio would scan to the next station. Or if I moved a little around the room the signal would cut out in the same way. So frustrating! It was impossible to listen to what I wanted to listen to. I did wonder whether I was using them properly but as there are no instructions included (no paperwork at all in fact) and nothing available online then I couldn't work it out. I tried a few different ways of setting these things up but none of...Read more

$10 at a department store, and I had been looking for a decent and inexpensive pair to listen to music in my house or a show when others are sleeping. There's not a lot for me to say here besides the fact that they aren't even worth having if they were free. First time I tried to use them I got barely audible sound from my computer (music playing). Tried a new set of batteries in both the headphones and the stand (both take two AAA batteries), and that seemed to fix the problem. However, I took three steps away from my laptop and turned a corner and....

Dead silence. Had to reset the unit (which you also seem to have to do whenever you want to switch from FM radio to the unit it is plugged in to). Tried it all again and the sound stayed, but barely. Horrible sound quality even if sitting directly in front of the source and base, unacceptable if more than a few feet away. Go for something with a little more quality than this unit.