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When can I buy wireless headphones based on this standard? I hate the short range of 2.54 and 5 GHz headphones.
by ridgeguy 11y ago
When can I buy wireless headphones based on this standard? I hate the short range of 2.54 and 5 GHz headphones.
- revelation 11y agoHopefully nowhere and never. These are bands unsuitable for high bandwidth applications and we certainly don't need more of the public spectrum polluted by things like cheap chinese RF headphones.
- hughes 11y agoAre there wifi-based headphones for any standard? Seems like a terribly complicated approach.
- geofft 11y agoThe 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz audio protocols seem to not be wifi-based. (Which makes sense, you don't want them to be IP-based.) They just transmit uncompressed analog audio over probably something like FM. 900 MHz headphones seem to be readily available, and to have been readily available for years.
- SquareWheel 11y agoReally? Does this mean a radio tuned to the right channel would be able to play the audio stream?
- dogma1138 11y agoNo they don't use simple radio, all of them will use a packet based protocol either proprietary or some sort of a standard digital (audio) streaming protocol. Encoding and packets don't add up any substantial latency just look Bluetooth A2DP headsets and AirPlay speakers (which uses Wifi as a carrier) headsets. If your headsets did use just normal 2.4ghz radio like say a basic walkie talkie the downside is that you would've been able to hear any other transmission on that band e.g. an old baby monitor(new ones are digital too).
- dogma1138 11y agoThat's utterly incorrect all wireless headsets these days use digital audio streaming of some sort doesn't matter if it's proprietary like PurePath Wireless (one of the most popular ones because it's TI tech which means allot of very cheap and vailable SOC's), AirPlay or more open like BT A2DP.