Sennheiser SET840-S Wireless Assistive Listening System with Body Pack Receiver

New use for this product
For several years my wife and I have been members of a health club where they have several televisions along the wall that are set to FM channels and you can bring your own radio receiver and listen to tv while working out. We also own a treadmill and use it several days a week. I also like to be entertained while running and we have a television that we can listen to while running. However, you have to crank up the volume so loud to hear above the noise of the treadmill that it is not comfortable to listen to. When I thought about the system at the health club I thought that there had to be some product that would work like what was available at the club. To my surprise, I couldn't find anything. Then I stumbled on this assistive listening system. Although it is designed for people with hearing deficiencies, I wondered if it would also work like the system at the health club. I called Sennheiser's tech support number, asked several questions, and thought that this could work...

Works great with my own headphones.
I bought this Sennheiser SET840s system hoping that it could do at least one of two things well: (1) enable me to hear spoken words on television through my own headphones clearly and at a much lower TV speaker volume than I have been using; and/or (2) transmit clear spoken words directly to the tele-coils in my Bernafon Veras 9CP hearing aids.

The jury is still out on number 2, above, because I will have to have my hearing aids set up differently by my audiologist for them to work with the Sennheiser system. But number 1, above, is such a rousing success that I can already rate this product with five stars even if it turns out they can't work directly with my hearing aids at all.

The manual is well written and set up was easy. Even used with just a five-dollar pair of Panasonic headphones, the Sennheiser system worked great: clear, clean audio with no static and no dropouts--none at all. Just clear sound with plenty of volume to spare, even with our TV set to...

Sennheiser SET840-S Wireless Listening System
I bought this product because I have used Sennheiser wireless head phones for many years and have always been impressed with their quality and the excellent sound reproduction. I now wear high-end within-the-ear hearing aids to correct a severe hearing loss and the Sennheiser SET840-S wireless system is designed to transmit a wireless radio signal from the sending unit connected to a TV, Home Theater System, or audio playback system directly to Telicoil equiped hearing aids. The SET840-S sending unit also sends a radio signal to compatible Sennheiser wireless head phones, and the Body Pac receiver worn around the neck (and which is included with the SET840-S system) also has a mini-plug port into which pretty much any wired head phone set can be plugged and used as well.

I have found the sound quality of the SET840-S to be excellent with the older Sennheiser wireless RS-140 head phones I normally use with the original RS-140 sending unit plugged into the audio system of...

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