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Tired of bothering your family when you want to watch TV late at night, or perhaps you just need the volume up louder than your neighbors appreciate? Either way, you're going to really like the slick Rybozen Wireless RF Hi-Fi TV Headset setup. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out a great solution for private TV listening [ Rybozen model BR6H0-B21 ] and finds that there really is a lot to like with this premium TV headset, not the least of which is no hassle with bluetooth. But there's a hiccup to know about too, as he explains...
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A wireless RF TV headset? Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this setup
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This, both the headphones and the charging base, are the Ribosyn Wireless RF Hi-Fi TV headset
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And it's a pretty sweet setup. The basic idea is that these are obviously headphones
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so I'll just put them here and we'll deal with them in a second. And then this base unit is a transmitter, and it does all sorts of things
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Most notably, when you leave your headphones on here, it charges them, so they're always ready to go
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And when fully charged, they give you 18 hours on a charge
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Now, even if you're watching a, I don't know, Twilight Zone marathon
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you're probably not going to listen for 18 hours without taking a bit of a break
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and maybe putting them back on to get a little more power. 18 hours is a long time, but this is a really nice setup because it's everything that you need
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all very self-contained. On the front, you have on-off buttons, so if you really want to, you can power the whole thing down
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You have the ability to attenuate the signal. So if you plug this into a source like a DVD player that puts out a lot of volume
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you can actually drop the volume down just a little bit, 8 decibels
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But that's enough that it goes from really loud to being a nice volume
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And then you have a volume adjustment on the headphones themselves, so you can fine-tune exactly what you want it to sound like
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And then on the top, you have a switch that lets you switch between AUX input and optical input
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Now, all of these cables come with it. So you have the optical cable, which is a great way to get the best fidelity audio from your television
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Or you have an RCA 3.5mm adapter, if, like me, your TV actually has RCA output
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In fact, here's a shot of the back of one of my Vizio TVs that this is hooked up to
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or this is usually hooked up to, and you can see those audio outs
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It's RCA or optical. There's no 3.5mm out. I don't know why TVs don't do that, but for some reason they don't
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It seems like it'd be really nice to have that maybe even on the front, so you can just plug in a pair of headphones and rock and roll
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Well, that's not how it works. So the good news is I use the RCA to 3.5mm adapter
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and then this is a pretty standard AUX cable, so it's 3.5mm on both ends
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So this is in the TV, and then this plugs into the back of this unit
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In fact, let me show you a close-up of the back. You can see there's the optical plug on the top
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there's the AUX jack in the middle, and now I'm plugged in
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and then there's the power, the DC power coming in, and this does need to be plugged in all the time
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Not a huge problem. You probably already have power and all sorts of things plugged in right by your television anyway
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So this is next to your TV. This is plugged into your TV
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and then this gives you that audio whenever you want to listen to a show
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or whatever else you want to put on your video. Now, this has a power on-off on the right
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and that really is just for turning the power on, because after 10 minutes of no music, it'll automatically turn off
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which is a great way to have it preserve that 18 hours of battery life to be even longer
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So you can probably listen for 20 or 30 or 40 hours a couple of days
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because you don't realize that when you just put them down, they automatically will turn off after a few minutes
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Now, on the left, it's a little more interesting, because you have line-in
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so you can use these as wired headphones if you want, and they work entirely functionally. It's perfectly fine
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And then you have three buttons, volume down, volume up, and in the middle is EQ, and that EQ button's pretty interesting
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because it gives you three different sound modes. It gives you the original or normal mode, it gives you a 3D sound mode
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and it also gives you bass boost. So you can just push the EQ button while you're listening and watching a show
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and if it's something where suddenly the symphony is playing, or it's a bunch of music videos, you can really go for that 3D sound or something
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and it works great with a lot of movies too. Or you can just keep it in original, and I'll come back to the sound quality in a minute
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but I'll just tell you, these are pretty sweet. And it's a 2.4 GHz RF system, and what does that mean
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It means, unlike Bluetooth, this has much more range. In fact, you can go 160 feet away from this bass unit
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which means, more importantly, that it works through walls, and I've found this to be really great
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So, I have these on, and even if I have to walk away from my television
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I can walk and check the mail, or go into the basement
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and, I don't know, do whatever it is I do in the basement
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and it still works perfectly, flawlessly, never have a dropout on any audio at all
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And of course, it's perfectly in sync with the TV signal, so you don't have any latency issues where you're hearing the sound
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a second or two after it's coming off of the TV, because that can be very disconcerting too
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This totally doesn't have that problem. So, I will say it doesn't have a microphone
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so you can hook this all up to your computer. So, if you have a student, for example, that's doing online learning
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you could use this for their particular stuff, hooking it up to their computer as their 3.5mm out
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just goes right into the 3.5mm in this, but the problem with that is there's no mic
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It's not intended to be a microphone, it's not intended to be a headset in that context
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this is really just a listen-only device, and it works really well for that
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So, not much else to talk about other than the sound, and, oh, I should point out that the headphones are adjustable
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They are, if I may be totally candid, they're a little cheap feeling
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The whole thing actually looks like it should be heavier than it is
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I mean, it's entirely functional, but I guess I felt like it should be a little bit more substantial with the materials they used
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Eh, probably not a big deal, and I would imagine after a couple of days you're not even aware of it
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So, what we need to talk about is we need to talk about sound quality
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and I was pretty darn surprised. I read a bunch of other people's customer reviews and stuff of this particular unit
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and people were complaining it didn't sound very good, this wasn't a good solution for music or anything
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and it's just like, au contraire. Assuming you have everything hooked up properly
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this actually sounds really good in all three sound modes, and if you go into that bass boost mode, it's quite enjoyable listening
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So, if you're watching a movie on your TV, and it has a really great soundtrack as so many of them do now
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all of that music's going to sound fantastic on this device. I'm really pretty darn impressed
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Would I buy these just as music headphones? No, there's better solutions out there
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but in terms of something that's perfectly designed to plug into a television
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and give you maximum benefit with minimum hassle, this is a solid solution
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And I'll also note that if you have an older person living in the house or someone with some hearing challenges
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they could use this to crank the volume to the point where they're comfortable
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and they can hear it, and then you can have your TV at a lower volume for everyone else in the room
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and that works entirely perfectly. And on the Vizio, at least, when you have audio out
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you still have audio coming out of the TV speakers, and you can adjust them independently
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which is actually kind of the perfect way to have it designed. So, lots to like about this
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Leading us to the price. But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask
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so why not subscribe, right? Awesome. Great. Now, these are the Riboson Wireless RF Hi-Fi TV Headset
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or is the Riboson Wireless RF TV Hi-Fi Headset, and it is $82.79 at Amazon.com
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If you're in a situation where you want to be able to listen to TV at whatever the heck volume you want without bothering anyone else
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this is a solid solution, definitely worth checking out. And if you watch TV really late at night and don't want to bother anyone
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just because of that, then this also works really well. And that 18-hour battery life is pretty wicked, too
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So, definitely worth checking out. I'm going to go back to my own Netflix show
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which means I'll catch you in my next video. ♪♪��
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