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Silent Safaris Multiple wireless Headphone systems

First look November 2012

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0:01 This is my interpretation of what could have happened

Alright guys, let's give a bit of history here. Now this is my interpretation of what could have happened. There was possibly this rather large nightclub and the manager, or not so much the manager, the DJ decided to turn the volume up to the spinal tap of 11 or 12. Some people may get that. Consequently, of course, there was lots of complaints and the club was closed down. And ended up being flats for old grannies with lifts and Zimmer frames. If, on the other hand though, the manager had thought, well you know what, instead of having DJs that turn it up, why don't we just turn it down completely so no one can hear any music at all? Except if they've got headphones on, but of course... Generally, in a nightclub, the only person with headphones on is the DJ and it's rather difficult to listen to what the DJ is listening to through his headphones because the headphones are quite loud for him, they're quiet in relation to where you are on the dance floor. So someone may have had the idea of, well, how about if everyone is wearing headphones in the same room and can listen to what the DJ is listening to, then we've stopped the problem of noise, we've also stopped...

DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, They are listening to the music and they're playing some funky tunes or 60s or 70s or Bach or Tchaikovsky or maybe they're just picking their nose, but they're playing some form of music. Not picking their nose. Then what's happening is that signal is not going to an amplifier and then to some speakers. That signal is going to a small little transmitter. In turn, that is transmitting what the DJ is playing to the receivers which are the headphones. And everyone in the room's got headphones. Not only that, let's take it to the next level. Imagine having two DJs playing different styles of music. Two transmitters to loads of headphones and the people out there can either listen to DJ A or DJ B. That is new enough a headphone disco. Not just one DJ but two. Now what these guys have done, there we go, Silent Safaris. What I will do, I'll put a link in the description.

2:38 This is my first review on these little bits of kit

This is my first review on these little bits of kit. What we have is four sets of headphones. There's two and there's another two there. We've also got two transmitters. First and foremost, we need to get one thing perfectly clear. Transmitter and the headphones are the receiver. These guys will transmit. They will receive the signal from your audio source and they will go jiggly, jiggly through the air. People like my terminology, like thingy-plonker and jiggly, jiggly. There you go. It'll go jiggly, jiggly. This won't go... Actually, it's gone. Oh, I'm basically going... No, this will go... Yeah, Jim will fix it, right? That'll go... That'll transmit.

Figure of eight plug i'll put that down there like so so there you go right no actually i'll bring it back up right now you'll notice that we've got four usb plugs now they're there simple reason usb cables so you plug those into there and then the other end which is there will plug into your headphones to charge them up so that's a charger as well so uh First thing I do like, there's no need to take out batteries and replace batteries and whatnot. Batteries are internal, rechargeable, all you've got to do is charge them up. Also as well, for this guy here, you will be able to go from this USB into the transmitter and you can see there the other side of the USB plug. You'll also notice that little green hole.

Now that is for the audio in, the signal in. Let's get one thing straight. There it is. This isn't just, let's say, for a DJ on his decks and a private party in the middle of the night or two o'clock in the morning where the dance floor is pumping yet next door neighbours can't hear you because you've got your headphones on. This is suitable for just general listening. For gaming, for anything. You can even plug that into your hi-fi and just listen to the hi-fi in another room. So what you will do, and what this guy comes with, is RCA there, that's your RCA, to female mini jack. And then you have here two cables, mini jack to mini jack. To the transmitter. So for example, I could go from let's say my mixer, my booth out of my mixer there, turn the booth out a little bit up if I want to and then just as long as this is on, by the way this is video number one, in video number two we'll just turn it all on and have fun. Once this guy is on and the music source is on or the audio source is on, then all we need to do

6:59 About this but what we're dealing

With our headphones, press the on button. Press that for about two or three seconds and we've got a little green light there. That's telling me it's on. Now also you'll see CHB, well you can't see it I'll explain because it's rather small. CHB, CHA, that's for channel A or channel B. Now bearing in mind as well, you've got two transmitters so if you want to you could have two different sources come in. One on this one, one on the other one. And at any one given time, four people can listen to all of one or two of one, two of the other, three of one, one of the other, etc. I mean, really that's near enough it. There is a little bit more to explain about this but what we're dealing with here is what they've done is they've taken the headphone disco concept that probably does cost a vast amount of money and reduced the cost

Brought it into the home for let's say a DJ who just wants a few people around and doesn't want to annoy the neighbours, or say half a dozen of you, or maybe four of you actually, who are mad gamers who love to just shout and scream but at the same time don't want to annoy the neighbours. What I'm going to do in video number two is I'm going to plug it all in and I'm going to take my camera outside and see how far we can get before we start losing the signal. There is over in that direction a two and a half foot thick wall and I was able to go into the other room which is the kitchen and I could still hear the audio quite well. Alright, so there you go. I will put a link in the description taking you directly to the website. If you want any information then go and check it out and also perhaps email them. Alright, so practice and enjoy. Video number one and I reckon next time I've got a few people around here it'll be quite cool.

I could be doing a DJ set in here. I could also then maybe, for example, have some classical music in the background over there. I don't particularly want to listen to it, but it's great. Don't get me wrong. I do like classical music. My mum still is a classical pianist and also a teacher. So if we do have any people over the age of, well, let's say between 80 and dead... Thank you for watching. Another stereo one over in the corner with some dubstep. And anyone over the age of 80 could listen to dubstep. Hopefully I got myself out that hole. Alright, practice and enjoy video number one. More to come. Thank you.

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