Good wireless headphones for Video Editing

[Ty Ford]

Hello Josh and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Those headphones are bluetooth wireless with data compression via an APT-X codec. There’s all kinds of stuff going on to get the audio to your ears.

Get headphones or earbuds with a cable. Problem gone!

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[Josh Williams]

Thanks Ty. I have those. Looking for wireless headphones as I said.

[Ty Ford]

Why is wireless so important?

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[Josh Williams]

It’s not. But I have limited desk space and get tired of cables and would prefer some good wireless headphones but if there aren’t any suitable wireless studio quality headphones then I’ll stick with the wired ones I’ve got.

[Bruce Watson]

[Josh Williams] “It’s not. But I have limited desk space and get tired of cables and would prefer some good wireless headphones but if there aren’t any suitable wireless studio quality headphones then I’ll stick with the wired ones I’ve got.”

IMHO there are not any “suitable wireless studio quality headphones” available. The radio hop is just a seriously bad idea for critical use. That said, I like listening to my Sennheiser PXC 550 noise cancelling headphones when I’m wandering about the house on Sunday mornings streaming a baroque music show I like using my smartphone. Bluetooth headphones work great for that, and they are marvelous on a train trip (never leave home without ’em). But I never use them for editing, because for editing I need to hear exactly what’s going on at the edits. Rocking back and forth over a few frames deciding where to cut is no place for bluetooth headphones.

[Josh Williams]

Yep, thanks. That’s what it’s looking like. Too bad. would love to get rid of these dang headphone cables. Someday

[Ty Ford]

Ha! If that’s your biggest gripe, you are doing pretty well!

Do you prefer wireless lavs over boom mics?

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[Greg Quinn]

I have the same question about bluetooth headphones for video editing – responses that they aren’t good enough quality I don’t think are helpful – (a final mix should ALWAYS be done with monitors). You DON’T need noise cancelling headphones.

[Ty Ford]

Hello Greg and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Audio-Technica now has Blue Tooth versions of their ATH-m series. This would be a good choice:
https://www.audio-technica.com/m50xbt/index.html

As far as I know, Blue Tooth always data compresses audio, so there will be some loss. Whether it will bother you, I don’t know. There’s also some inherent latency with Blue Tooth, so if you’re listening to monitors and Blue Tooth headphones at the same time, the sound from any Blue Tooth source will be hitting your ears a little later. That’ll sound weird.

Don’t get any with ANC in the model number. That stands for Active Noise Cancellation.

Headphones with Active Noise Cancellation are NOT good for any kind of production work.

Headphones with passive noise cancelling are OK. They simply block the noise physically.

David Clark makes both kinds. https://www.davidclarkcompany.com/aviation/fixed-wing-passive.php

What you mix on for a final depends on your listeners. If your listeners will ONLY be listening on ear buds or headphones, then you can arguably just use headphones. If both then you need to use both headphones and monitors. Big monitors can be a problem because most people don’t have big monitors. Again, you need to ascertain the expected listening experience. I have a set of Radio Shack Minimus 7 small monitors to check the mixes on my Event Opals.

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