Sony MDR-HW700DS Wireless Headphone 100-240V (Japan Import)
Brand | Sony |
Model Name | MDR-HW700DS |
Color | Black |
Form Factor | Over Ear |
Connectivity Technology | Wired |
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Sound quality | 3.8 | — | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.2 |
Battery life | 3.8 | — | — | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Volume control | — | — | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.2 |
Noise cancellation | — | — | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
Sold By | Thanks shop Japan( Shipping to Worldwide.) | Electronics Expo (Authorized Dealer) | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | AvantreeDirect USA | Amazon.com |
connectivity tech | Wired | Wireless | Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi | RF | Wireless | Wireless |
headphones form factor | Over Ear | In Ear | Over Ear | Over Ear | Over Ear | Over Ear |
connector type | micro,usb,wireless | wireless | 3.5mm Jack, USB Type A | wireless,wireless.frequency | Wireless, Bluetooth | wireless |
headphones jack | — | — | 3.5 mm Jack | 3.5 mm Jack | 3.5 mm Jack | 3.5 mm Jack |
cable feature | Without Cable | Without Cable | Detachable, Without Cable | Wireless | wireless | Without Cable |
control type | — | control | Noise Control | Noise Control | Media Control | Noise Control |
water resistance | — | — | not water resistant | not water resistant | not water resistant | not water resistant |
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Product information
Item Weight | 15.2 ounces |
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Manufacturer | Sony |
ASIN | B00FJISYZQ |
Item model number | MDR-HW700DS |
Batteries | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. |
Customer Reviews |
3.8 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #459,704 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics) #8,715 in Over-Ear Headphones |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | October 8, 2013 |
Item Weight | 430 Grams |
Units | 1 count |
Number Of Items | 1 |
Cable Length | 150 Centimeters |
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Imported From Japan.
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Customers like the sound quality, comfort, and wireless of the headphones. For example, they mention that it sounds great, is warm, and rich. Some appreciate the 5 GHz wireless band, which works well with desktop mics. That said, opinions are mixed on ease of setup, value, and clarity.
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Customers like the sound quality of the headphones. They say the signal is perfect, without any noise, and the audio is warm and rich. They are comfortable and isolate from outside noises, making them great for multi channel audio content. However, some customers feel the headphones do not handle 2 channel content well.
"...As for the headphones themselves... EXCELLENT. Great quality sound. Avatar sounds great on them. My wife can't hear me in the other room...." Read more
"...For audio, I'd like to say they sound warm and rich, with a heavy emphasis on the mid and low frequencies...." Read more
"...PS4 works fine.Pro :Really comfy.Sounds great.Fits big head (8 1/2)Con:..." Read more
"...They worked wonderfully. The sound was beautiful, I got to enjoy movies without bothering any one else in the house, and I could move around, a..." Read more
Customers like the wireless performance of the headphones. They say it works great, perfect on PS4, and really works every channel. Some mention that the transmitter is decent, but they have experienced interference from 2.4 GHz. Overall, most are satisfied with the wireless capabilities of the product.
"...First of all, you get great digital options. The HDMI work nicely. All you do is go from your source (Blu-Ray, Cable-Box, etc.)..." Read more
"...The transmitter is decent, but I have experienced interference from 2.4 GHz devices, like WiFi routers and Apple TVs...." Read more
"...after a bit when no sound is being played - they actually work when lying down flawlessly..." Read more
"...They worked wonderfully...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the quality of the headphones. They mention that it is a top quality headphone, really impressive, and an audiophile quality head phone. Some say that the headphones are great as regular headphones and produce almost theatre like sound. Overall, most are happy with their purchase and recommend them to others.
"...As for the headphones themselves... EXCELLENT. Great quality sound. Avatar sounds great on them. My wife can't hear me in the other room...." Read more
"...Most of that time, I have thought that this was one of the best sets of headphones that I have ever had. They worked wonderfully...." Read more
"...Had been using the Sennheiser 170 RS the past year. Great as regular headphones, but with the surround on the sort of silence when things got..." Read more
"...Movies & Games sound amazing.Previously I purchased the PS4 Gold Headset, but I ended up returning it and buying this beauty...." Read more
Customers like the comfort of the headphones. They mention the padding is amazing, the ear cups are very soft, and the padding has memory foam that provides an adequate seal.
"...No noticeable delay in the sound. Very comfortable. Don't bother with the sound effects, typical SONY effects, sounds like a tin can...." Read more
"...Good enough that I don't regret buying them. The headphones are comfortable, but the ear muffs can get rather warm...." Read more
"...The padding is thick and soft with memory foam, which provides adequate seal...." Read more
"...PS4 works fine.Pro :Really comfy.Sounds great.Fits big head (8 1/2)Con:..." Read more
Customers find the headphones versatile and a good addition to their home theater. They say it's great for gaming and music listening, and is well suited for movies and gaming. Customers also mention that the headphones are great for late-night movie watching without disturbing others. Overall, customers are satisfied with the versatility and quality of the product.
"...For audio, I'd like to say they sound warm and rich, with a heavy emphasis on the mid and low frequencies...." Read more
"...but they are more than adequate for watching TV and movies and do a pretty impressive job of simulating surround..." Read more
"...It's great for late-night movie watching without disturbing others...." Read more
"...Great for gaming and music listening. English manual available online but easy to setup.Pricey but worth it" Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of setup. Some mention that the manual is available online and easy to setup, connecting it is a breeze, and the control buttons are easy to apply. However, others say that the headphones do not come with English instructions, the enclosed instructions are in Japanese, and it's challenging to follow.
"...Great controls on the headset itself, no need to program my Harmony Touch...." Read more
"...1. Setting up can be tricky and it's highly recommended to have equipment that's ARC/CEC capable...." Read more
"...Connecting it is a breeze, if you read Japanese...If not, then I'm going to spare you the agony of using Google Translate on Sony support info that..." Read more
"Very easy to hook up and the sound is great. I can hear all the talk in movies now...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the value of the headphones. Some mention that it's worth the price for watching movies, while others say that they're pretty expensive.
"...As it stands, it's bound to the processor base station.4. Pricey?..." Read more
"...Worth the money." Read more
"...Exofield will however, using them right now. But they are very expensive..." Read more
"...It's about time somebody made these! Yes, they're VERY expensive, but you can save a few bucks by buying the Japanese model...all the markings on..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the clarity of the headphones. Some mention that the quality, AMAZING sound, and lower resolution sounds good. However, others say that the dialogue can be distracting with that echo, and the other settings tend to displace the dialogue origination. The manual is a bit rough and the male's voice is very tinny.
"...The other settings tend to displace the dialogue origination (like it's coming from in front of the screen), and that's just annoying...." Read more
"...Even lower resolution sounds good. The set up was not easy, but following the downloaded directions I got it done in about an hour...." Read more
"...from there to a full translated manual, although the English was a bit rough...." Read more
"...Excellent quality, AMAZING sound, very clear, and detailed." Read more
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First of all, you get great digital options. The HDMI work nicely. All you do is go from your source (Blu-Ray, Cable-Box, etc.) with one HDMI cable, then your HDMI Out will go to your input on your TV. This is of course the most common connection method if you are simply using the TV speakers. However, if you have added a soundbar to your TV, without an amp or receiver in between, it will likely look something like this: You have your HDMI's running from the source (For me, it's my Apple TV and my Oppo Blu-Ray player) and they go to Input 1 and Input 2 on your TV. The HDMI's are running your video AND sound to the TV. Now you want to have sound to your Soundbar. Most soundbars are going to use an Optical In/Out and NOT an HDMI. If you have the optical then here's how you do it: The sound is coming from the TV itself so you have an optical coming FROM the optical out of the TV TO the SONY optical IN. Another optical comes OUT of SONY To the Soundbar. All you are doing is creating what they call a Pass-Through. This simply means that the sound info passes through the headphone device but does not inhibit it from use. So you can have the device off or on and it won't affect your soundbar during regular use.
Now you are all set up. Anytime you want to just watch TV or a Movie using the sound bar, just turn it on and all will work normally. THE BEAUTY OF THIS SET-UP IS THAT NOW WHENEVER YOU WANT TO USE HEADPHONES, JUST PUT THEM ON YOUR HEAD AND YOU IMMEDIATELY GET THE SOUND. Just mute or turn off the sound bar and all is quiet in the house but rocking in the headphones!
NOTE: The above setup will NOT allow for the Multi-Channel sound that these headphones are all about. For that, you will have to read on: 5.1, 7.1, 9.1 whatever, if you want to have the headphones really rock, you will need to add an HDMI cord. Now, in most cases, the only thing putting out TRUE 5.1 or above would be a Blu-Ray or DVD player. In my case, my Oppo blu-ray has 2 HDMI OUT's all I had to do was add one HDMI from the 2nd output and it made HDMI 1 Video and HDMI 2 Audio. Most of you may not have such an option. In that case, I would suggest simply running HDMI OUT of the Blu-Ray IN to the SONY and use the HDMI OUT and go on to the TV. This way, your sound bar and all of that will keep working like normal BUT, when you watch a Blu-Ray, you just switch on your headphones to HDMI 1 (or whichever you plugged it into) and you get the Multi-Channel through the headphones. Kinda cool.
As for the headphones themselves... EXCELLENT. Great quality sound. Avatar sounds great on them. My wife can't hear me in the other room. I can walk anywhere in the house and still hear the TV. I even made it outside a ways and still heard everything. So, range is good. No crackling or breaks in the sound. No noticeable delay in the sound. Very comfortable. Don't bother with the sound effects, typical SONY effects, sounds like a tin can.
All in all, hope this has been useful as to how to set it up with a sound bar. Keeps things very clean and minimal without speakers all over the house but TRUE surround sound inside the headphones if you want it! Worth the money.
The sound quality is good, but far from flawless. Good enough that I don't regret buying them. The headphones are comfortable, but the ear muffs can get rather warm. It's pretty easy to accidentally push buttons on the headphones, derailing your whole experience with a debugging session trying to get things back the way they were. Onboard audio processing is sort of a gimmick. I've found the only setting that doesn't do annoying things is the game setting. The other settings tend to displace the dialogue origination (like it's coming from in front of the screen), and that's just annoying. Battery life is good. The ability to control the volume for each headset individually is probably the most important feature, aside from being wireless.
The transmitter is decent, but I have experienced interference from 2.4 GHz devices, like WiFi routers and Apple TVs. The audio will drop out and the headphones have to reconnect. It's a pain, but some amount of difficulty like this is to be expected. It's not like the headphones could do buffering as that'd put the audio out of sync with the video. So, you're at the mercy of however crowded your local spectrum is. If I keep everything quiet (stream video over ethernet, not WiFi) and other wireless devices at least 6 feet away from the transmitter, it's unusual to get dropouts. Figuring this out was not fun.
The HDMI switcher can be a huge pain. It needs to negotiate settings between the source and the display, and it has a seriously hard time working with my PS3. It'll take a good 5 to 10 minutes of me futzing with unplugging and plugging HDMI cables, turning things off and on again before the stars magically align. I've tried lots of different configurations on the PS3, and nothing really seems to matter. I think it's a synchronization issue. My 4th gen Apple TV works flawlessly, but I'll have to unplug it as the Sony box will prefer that source to the PS3, and will switch back to it while I'm fighting to get it to talk to the PS3. It's infuriating.
The behavior of the HDMI switcher/transmitter can be pretty unintuitive. If you don't want to use the headphones, you select the source and then you turn the unit OFF. That just seems kinda weird, and it's taken me multiple iterations of explaining this idiosyncrasy to family members for them to get it. Upon powering things on, sometimes this unit decides it needs to be on (which diverts the audio), and chooses a random source; sometimes it stays off. Irritating, but manageable.
Bottom line, I don't love this system, but it gets the job done. It's good enough for me to deal with all the annoyances, but barely.
***UPDATE***
I finally got fed up enough to dig deeper into the interference issues with WiFi, and I found an easy fix. So, the problem is, while listening the headphone audio will drop out and the headphones will beep at you for, say, 1 to 3 seconds as they reconnect. I've tried minimizing Bluetooth and that didn't seem to matter, yet turning off WiFi on my phone seemed to help. My WiFi base station is relatively close to the headphone transmitter, and there's not a lot I can do about that. I looked into the specifications of the DP-HW700 and found that it uses these frequency bands:
2.4 GHz band: 2,412 MHz/2,438 MHz/2,464 MHz
5.2 GHz band: 5,180 MHz/5,210 MHz/5,240 MHz
5.8 GHz band: 5,736 MHz/5,762 MHz/5,814 MHz
Then I went looking on Wikipedia (search "List of WLAN channels") for which frequency bands WiFi channels occupy. I settled on 2.4GHz Channel 9 and 5GHz Channel 40 as having the least amount of overlap, and set those in my WiFi router. Then I set the headphone transmitter to 2.4 GHz (which the switch on the side only allows selection between 2.4 and 5 GHz, so I'm not sure what the 5.8GHz band is all about), and that appears to have fixed my problem!
So, you probably don't need to fiddle with both your 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi settings like I did. I picked 2.4GHz for the headphones as I figure channel 9 overlaps less with the headphone carrier frequencies than the 5GHz channel options, and the router is totally line of sight to where we use the headphones. If the WiFi router was not in direct line of sight, then perhaps the 5GHz option would be a better one, as the higher frequencies don't pass through objects as easily as the lower ones. It's all about trying to minimize interference, and It depends on all the factors of your particular case.
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頭の周り30cmくらいに音場が形成されます。広いとは言えませんが、ドラマ、映画、アニメ、音楽、スポーツなどジャンルを問わず十分に立体音響が楽しめます。
Also make sure you buy from a company that buys directly from Japan so you can hookup 4 sets of headphones if you buy locally you might get a set that only allows 1 headphone set as I've read in other reviews, all and all I'm very happy with this product and I can now watch movies anytime I want without bugging the nabour's. It is definitely designed for waching movies and not listening to music
8年の進化は凄いですね!
かなり音質が良くなってます。
MENU画面で細かい設定ができます。
Center Level:センターチャンネルの音量レベルの調整。0 ~ +8 dBの範囲で切り換えることができます。
LFE Level:サブウーファーチャンネルの音量レベルを調整。–6 ~ +6 dBの範囲で切り換えることができます。+にするとかなりの重低音がします。
ちなみに私はCenterを+2、LFEを+6にしました。
今まで観てきた映画は損した気分です。
気に入った映画だけでも見直そうと思ってます。
ヘッドフォン自体は小さくなり、デザインもカッコよくなってます。
光ケーブルよりもHDMIで接続することをお勧めします。
残念な点は・・・
①プロセッサーがデカくなってしまったことです。横幅が約1.5倍。
HDMI端子を4つ設置することによりデカくなってしまった感じです。
②ヘッドフォンの端子がマイクロUSBに変わりましたが、ACアダプターが付いていないことです。
取説にはPCに接続か、別売のAC-UD20を使用と書いてあります。
PCからでは電気代がもったいないし面倒なのでACアダプターを購入しました。
AC-UD20はカラーがホワイトでUSB端子が2つなので、ケーブルと同じブラックで端子1つのAC-UD11の中古を某フリマで購入しました。700円。
規格はAC-UD20と全く同じです。
iPhone用のACアダプターとか他のでも使用可能かもしれませんが、規格が全く同じないとヘッドフォンが壊れるのが心配なのでやめました。
③HDMIケーブルか付いていないことです。
最近安くなったとはいえ、3万円以上もする製品なのでそれくらいは付けて欲しかったです。
追記
購入して1週間でプロセッサーの電源が勝手に切れるようになりました。
しかも頻繁に。
接続は、ブルーレイレコーダー➡️プロセッサー↔️TV
光ケーブルでも同じ症状でした。
返品して5年延長保証を付けて再度購入しました。
たまに音声が一瞬途切れますし、プチプチ音がする時があります。
で、ー☆1。