SIMOLIO Dual Wireless Headphones for TV Watching with Spare Battery for Seniors and The Elderly, Tone and Balance Control, Ambient Sound Listener, 164 ft Work Range, No Audio Delay, SM-824D2

Does exact what it promised. Augments sound from TV and SURROUNDINGs (at the touch of a button). Works perfectly with Samsung hospitality model TV. I can set the TV to any volume and Simolia works independently via the optical port. My mother did seem to prefer the sound via TV Ears digital more but one charge port broke quickly on the dual transmitter base, came with no extras doesn't work but 3 ft from the transmitter and dies after 2 to 3 hours. This Simolio comes with extra ear tips- 2 types. Washable silicone and disposable foam. It has the extra battery and needs no screw driver to open the batt cover. Interestingly it also has ear loops for those who want the device to hang from the top of your ear, up where one's eyeglasses sit. Manual is well written and almost too detailed. Sooo many ways to attach it. It's simply an A+ item. 1 nagging Neg Green Light flashes on the base after you've cut the TV off. It does that wherever the port isn't transmitting sound. So if it's in your bedroom and you hate light there like we do, be sure to cut the set off more than 10 minutes before you try to sleep to give that light time to become steady. Then cover it with something. I keep asking manufacturers to put a DARK SLEEP MODE on all electronics. Still isn't happening enough.

Great... sound is terrific

I CAN UNDERSTAND DIALOGUE AGAIN!! For several years I've been able to hear dialogue but haven't always been able to discern what was being said. It was noise that I couldn't decipher. These headphones took me less than 5 minutes to install and I'm a 72-year-old woman. I can adjust volume, left and right speakers, bass, treble and best of all, I can comprehend dialogue again. There are options too. They work well whether you want to mute your tv so others don't have to hear it while you use your headphones OR you can have sound from both the tv and your headphones OR you can have sound from just the tv without the headphones. It's been a game changer for me and if you have trouble understanding what's being said on tv these days, try the Simolio headphones.

These are better than the heavily advertised alternative. Clearer sound, no cutting out. I have difficulty hearing the “talking heads” commentary during football games, but these headphones make it easy to separate voices from the background noise.

I have hearing loss. Therefore I always have to use some kind of head phones to watch TV or movies. My husband researched a lot of headphones before buying Simolio. I really like these. The volume is good. Clarity of the sound is good they're very comfortable to wear. I've always worn over the top head headphones. They're really uncomfortable and always to big. These are great. I posted a picture of what happened to them today. A friend tried them on and I am a clean freak so I was going to clean them after he stuck them in his ears. I used alcohol and it disintegrated the earpieces in seconds. I can't image why alcohol did this. It turned out to be a costly experience. The ear piece replacements cost around $20. I will not allow other people to try them now. Yes I do recommend them

The bad: 1) The ear buds are VERY uncomfortable after a short time and the ear bud stalks are so stiff there is no way to adjust the ear buds to any other angle that might be more comfortable. I tried both the foam and silicone ear bud covers. The silicone ones are slightly better but both hurt your ear canal after only a short time. I also tried the over the ear loops. These support the weight slightly better but still not enough to be comfortable for any long period. The best I could do was pull the ear buds out so they were barely in my ears and rest the center part of the headset on my chest while leaning back in a recliner. I could survive that for somewhat longer. 2) The transmitter base is very sensitive to the audio level sent from the TV to the transmitter. I found I had to turn off the TV internal speakers so that I could turn up the volume on the TV so that the output level going to the transmitter was high enough to keep the audio and green light on most of the time. This means you can't really expect to use the TV speakers at a lower volume, for others in the room, while one person uses the headset at a louder volume. Still, when there is a quiet part of the TV show lasting several seconds the transmitter will think the audio input has been lost and the green light will blink, while you lose audio, until the TV show starts some louder dialog or music at which point it may go back to working after missing a few seconds of dialog. Sometimes you have to crank the volume up much higher in order to get the transmitter to realize there is audio to transmit before you can get the audio back. This is apparently some kind of power saving "feature" to turn the transmitter off when the audio source is turned off. But the result is a very annoying loss of audio at random times and having to run the volume up and down sometimes to get the audio back. This could be a real problem if you only have fixed level audio output from the TV - it might not work at all in that case. 3) If you do pause the TV program for a couple minutes, the headset may turn it self off. You then have to switch the headset off and back on to get the audio back when you restart the TV program. The Good: 1) Very clear audio for dialog. Average for music & other background sounds 2) Small and light weight. 3) Dual headsets and easy to use charging base in a small footprint. 4) Simple, no Bluetooth pairing needed. 5) Spare battery, but never needed it in 4+ hours of use. 6) Wireless ability to walk around the house while doing chores and still listen to TV. The range is slightly better than Bluetooth options I tried but certainly not the suggested 100 feet in my house. 7) Automatic power off of the headsets after a few minutes of no audio -- if you forget to turn the headset off at least you don't run the battery down. Recommendations to Simolio: 1) remove the ear stalks and use a standard 3.5mm audio jack so that any ear bud or head phones could be used so the customer can use what ever is comfortable for them. Just make the receiver into a necklace. Consider making the necklace also a T-coil loop so it would work with hearing aids. 2) Make the audio input much more sensitive so you can use a low TV volume on the audio output. This would let people leave the internal TV speakers on at low volume and the persons using the headset can set their own volume individually in the headset. 3) Don't turn off the audio unless the audio input goes quite for several minutes so you don't lose audio frequently during TV programs. 4) Separate the transmitter function from the charging base function so that you can have the transmitter at the TV and the headsets charging next to where the user always sits down. And, use standard USB connectors and chargers.

These things really work. Easy setup and great value.

Easy to set up. Difficult to get the headphones into the charger, needed to use a little force. Charge quickly. They sit a little awkward in your ear. Comes with different ear pieces which is nice, but they tear easily when removing them. If you are planning on bing watching or wearing these for a long time, you will experience some discomfort. They apply pressure weirdly and they are very stiff. Not noise canceling, you can clearly hear everything around you.