2 - Documentation: 8/10
As a quick guide with drawings very explicit key.
As an instruction manual thirty pages but in three languages (English, French, German). On the obverse of the 4th cover is inserted a CD that contains the same record for ten languages that have not been printed.
A safety guide in 15 languages as a print.
So tutto bene.
3 - Food: 9/10
2 AAA batteries, installed in each side of the helmet in the atrium that rotates clockwise, allowing it to unclip and reveal the location of the battery. This is roughly the same system on many models in the range. Rechargeable batteries, it should be left first 16 h, even if the light, drawing the stack on the front of the base turned green, because the first time, it must "push" the load. Sustainability issue tells the documentation. To see in time, the battery life.
The LED that is uppermost on the base, gives indications that it is red or green color (see instructions)
Better if you remove the base helmet, the LED next location (left - is less time - right - remains full time), gives you an indication of viewing time before the batteries are empty .
WARNING: Beware of Linnet heads.
Check that when you change them, not to put non-rechargeable batteries, at least, it is not forbidden, except that it takes more than putting on headphones to load on its base. This can be a troubleshooting solution, but it carries a risk. So change them by rechargeable batteries.
The base is linked by a small transformer with the adapter socket according to 4 standards.
The helmet is posed like a horse and rider. Below the helmet, contacts allow loading batteries. Again, a classic of the genre with many manufacturers such as Philips.
4 - transmitting base: 9/10
It connects, as was seen in two different ways:
- Is not 3.5mm (analog connection). This is at each end of a single stereo jack. This means that if your equipment only has the traditional red and white RCA jacks, you need to buy the adapter (it is found everywhere). Ditto if you must adapt to the 6.5 jack plug.
- Either by optical cable (digital connection).
A led (the bottom) shows whether the helmet contact is on, but also other information to read on the leaflet that indicates for example that the issuer is in standby, it is connected to a power outlet etc. . etc.
- The round button at the bottom, front, this is the left-right balance
- The top button, a switch is to customize the listening 7 positions A to G
- LED above this button shows the last sound enhancement according to the chosen criterion (speech or music or both).
button A to G means increments, one can spend a listening profile to another, and this is where the hearing will have a suitable helmet.
It's the middle of the LED base that will indicate left "a speech enhancement" - fully right "musical improvement" and amid selected listening profiles, depending what we want. Thus, if speech is improved compared to the music the leftmost position indicates that seeks to improve speech intelligibility. Right, that of music over speech and if the 3 horizontal LED flash is that the personalized listening can not be commissioned as 2 helmets were connected to the same base.
5 - headphones: 8/10
Loaded with right buttons namely a "mode" button, a touch "more" to turn up the volume by successive key support and "less" the same maneuver to lower the sound.
The helmet startup (Power) is on the edge of the helmet. Pressing the "+" or "-" squizze the "power off" (helmet off)
You can disable custom tuned by pressing 2 seconds the MODE button on the headset or the base button.
6 - Listening: 8/10 (Note to review over the use).
This helmet is intended to replace the RS220, but that was worth 2 times more.
I do not know the previous model with the HDR170 Sennheiser headphones, already installed on televisions. Philips headphones to the TV and this is the second RS195 on the 3rd TV ... Already, I can say there is no comparison between the HDR170 and Philips that has the unpleasant habit of having a sound that " slap "from time to time and quality is very average ... sometimes certainly sufficient with what is projected.
The HDR 170 is a good headset (see the review in this section I made it a few years ago).
The RS 195 is lightweight and very comfortable to wear. Very enveloping atria and therefore, they isolate themselves from the outside.
In comparison, if I put in a "normal" position, the RS 195 is clearer where the HDR 170 encloses more sounds. The HDR 170 has a "warm" sound, that of RS 195 "cold and dry" and you can hear all the better when placed in personalized attention, so that depending on the setting (position G) the sound can become nasal.
It will be a matter of habit and successive tests, as I am accustomed to HDR 170. In fact, the HDR 170 is comparable to the Anglo-Saxon speakers (at least some) who are warm and lack of detail and the RS 195 to the CABASSE clear, crystalline and "detailed".
7 - price / quality ratio: 8/10
Very good helmet, light, with settings that will be content with more than one, given that over 30% of people are hearing without saying "deaf". In addition, flat TV screens, do not help the sound quality. Already have a headset allows a much better listening sounds especially 5 or 7.1 that stifle dialogues small speakers.
As I am carrying a camera with HDR 170, smaller in headsets, according to the positions, my turn to ear, "whistles", which is unpleasant. With the RS 195, ear broadly fall into the atrium and apparently the first tests, I do not have that whistle. Now I have to test because my wife listening via the YAMAHA sound bar and sometimes the return of his I have, that I hear with HDR 170, two sounds with a very slight delay, I am less although "isolated" from the outside with the HDR 170.
On the other hand, the volume / fashion buttons on the RS, are accessible without removing the headset where it should almost remove it with the HDR 170 because my keys are small and therefore difficult to detect blind.
First trials: a good helmet that should help us to better hear the dialogue and to share with the music of the TV films.
I have not tested this headset with my hi-fi chain, as I continue to listen on my magnificent Cabasse Clipper II that have more than 20 years and have a crystalline quality and unmatched detail.
Overall Average Rating: 8.4 / 10
we must recognize that it is cheaper than some hearing aid (1000 euro on average per ear), but the headset costs almost 400 euro, is not given. The techniques used in explaining the cost, for improved quality, and a price 30% cheaper, the RS 220 are already classified among the dinosaurs. Like what, everything goes very fast madame.