Review: Sennheiser RS 140 Wireless Headphones

If you love watching movies or listening to music and don’t live alone in the middle of the woods, I’d definitely suggest a good set of wireless headphones.  Admittedly, there’s nothing like the 770 Watts my Denon AV receiver can stuff into 7.1 channels of wall-to-wall sound, but my neighbors and wife have a different opinion, especially at night.  So, in an effort to prevent my tires from being slashed, I invested in a set of Sennheiser RS 140 wireless headphones. The RS140’s transmit wirelessly in the 926-928MHz range, well away from the crowded 2.4GHz spectrum used by routers and cordless phones.  The sound quality is very good when the headphones are stationary and within line-of-sight to the transmitter.  But if you have to roam around the room or into another, random “pops” and hissing do become more frequent.  While I don’t do a lot roaming while using these headphones, I do require the transmitter to be mounted behind a sheet rock wall in my h ...