Best bluetooth headphone for listening to music

What are the best Bluetooth headphones for listening to music?
I just recently updated my iPod to OS 3.0 and I would like to take advantage of the bluetooth feature. What are a great pair of bluetooth headphones, for a reasonable amount?

 

Using 2:

. Sennheiser VMX100

. Motorola H820

cheers ...

 

Bluetooth doesn't have enough bandwidth for real sound. Stick with a wire if you want the best.

 

Very true. The sound you get Bluetooth 2.0 is very poor in every aspect (clarity, acoustics, range, bass, and overall quality) when compared to a good set of wired headphones.

Not only will you get poor sound quality, using bluetooth headphones drains the battery moreso than using a wired connection.

 

none, you are much better off with wired headphones.

 

And thats not even bringing price into the picture. To get nice bluetooth headphones then your spending a fair amount of cash. You put that money into some nice cabled headphones and you'll be getting much much better sound quality. And more versatility as you will be able to use them on anything that has a headphone jack, rather than just things that are enabled with bluetooth.

 

But Bluetooth headphones (or headsets) give you many advantages. You can listen to music anytime without organizing the cable, or maybe you left your lappy on the desk and go to rest room. And when you are on the road, you can pair it with your mobile phone. I found this headset with good review.

 

If you just want wireless sound at home check our the Sennheiser RS-130. Similar sound signature to a HD580. It is RF though.

 

There are only a handful of situations where I see wireless headphones being useful. However, the technical limitations of the current generation of Bluetooth are just not up to par with a good pair of headphones.

Also, wireless range will vary greatly with the device in which you are pairing it with. For most smartphones and dongles, the range is only a few feet so I doubt you'll be able to go very far without having the signal cut.

 

I have two bluetooth headphones and one pair of good corded headphones.

Comparing my Plantronics Pulsar 260's and my Motorola S9-HD's to my Audio Technica A700's the gap in sound is not as large as some make it out to be.

Soo rather than point out that you can get more quality from a high end corded headphone witch I think is pretty obvious without being stated, I will answer the actual question.

I would recommend the Plantronics Pulsar 260's I find them very comfortable and they sound great. I was wonderfully surprised with the sound quality when I got them, and I really like the charging dock and things that come with it as well.

I find many situations where the bluetooth headphones are better to use than the corded ones, when mobility is required. Also if your using your phone with any of the devices I listed you can make/take calls while listing at the same time.

The S9-HD's also have the dual paring so you can pair them with your laptop or mp3 player for music and also have them paired with your phone at the same time.

 

Just a couple of notes since I don't have a huge amount to contribute:

The problem with some people who consider themselves audiophile experts is that anything which doesn't seem audiophile, they'll bash - without even trying it. BT stereo headsets do reencode the audio to send over wireless, however many of them are very listenable and shouldn't be a problem for most casual listeners, as long as you are aware that there is a certain price/performance penalty with going wireless.

I'm not absolutely convinced with the build quality of any of the Plantronics headsets I've used so far since they all fell apart in no time, including the 260's I tried some time ago - which was otherwise decent, when used with a Sony Ericsson. Motorolas always performed pretty badly for me.

Personally I've grown to dislike BT headsets due to reasons of practicality, even in situations I feel I could be better off with wireless - and that's because it's yet another thing to charge, being a world champion gadget-charge-forgetter.

It's also worth actually specifically asking for people who have used these headsets with iPhones - because although I still have a couple of older stereo BT headsets (which of course uses the A2DP profile) and I can't get either of them to pair with the iPhone 3.0.