My wife needs reliable wireless earbuds

So she first asked me to buy her these Onkyo Wireless Earbuds but when I told her they cost north of 200 GBP she was shocked and told me not to buy them.

So I searched for some wireless earbuds on Amazon but all of them have to have a few bad reviews but are enough to make me scared off buying them like disconnections or flaky audio...

so are there any reliable wireless earbuds that I can buy her that won't drill a hole in our pocket?

 

So far, I have yet to see any RF or Bluetooth Wireless headphones or earbuds which were reliable and sounded decent. And that's even using Sennheisers. The old Sennheiser infrared system's the only one I ever got to work reliably, and it cost $500 30 years ago. And that system had to be in a dimly lit room at that. I borrowed a demo model. And went back to wired headphones.

 

My wife uses these. Plantronics BackBeat bluetooth headphones. ( Amazon link). You can probably find the equivalent on a UK retailer site.

She uses them for listening to music, and occasionally taking phone calls, and she likes them. She's not an audiophile. But being around me (a headphone nerd), she knows decent audio gear from crap audio gear. And these rank in the decent-audio-gear in her book.



If your wife is an ultra-elitist audiophile that posts on headphone forums as a hobby, then these won't satisfy her (nor will any set of bluetooth audio gear). But if she's just a normal person who wants a no-hassle, decent-sounding bluetooth headset for music and occasional phone calls, then she should be pretty happy with these.

 

Jaybird X2 or Bluebuds X

 

These have a mic to use with phone?

 

If you're talking about the Plantronics Backbeat headphones I linked, then yes... they have a microphone to handle calls over Bluetooth.

 

Only good Bluetooth solutions with acceptable audio use APT-X codecs, otherwise voice only or for those who can't hear good sound from lesser. In high Radio Frequency interference environments, wired works, wireless is a crapshoot. Exception is if you are FCC licensed and on frequencies not used by consumer devices.

 

These are good choices. Both of them work well with a phone, but I haven't tried them with a pc.