Sonos Portable Headphones

Here is our $600,- solution: Sonos connect + Sennheiser RS 160 wireless headphone+transmitter. Great sound, great connectivity and complete Sonos functionality.

Here is our $600,- solution: Sonos connect + Sennheiser RS 160 wireless headphone+transmitter. Great sound, great connectivity and complete Sonos functionality.

Just to clarify, would this be a Connect or Connect:Amp?

Just a Sonos Connect, not the amp. No need for!

I have been thinking the same thing over the past few days. It would not be that difficult by taking a headset set up similar to the Sennheiser RS 165 with its wifi transmitter and add the basics of the play 1 less the speaker and you would have the basics of a workable wireless headset zone. Surely someone at Sonos could turn that into a sellable device. Music is great around the house but their are times when people don't want to be in another room and don't want to share you music. I know that this thread has been kicking around in various forms for a good few years. Come on Sonos there is ready money to be made here.

Just a point I forgot, people keep on saying you would need to put all Sonos receiving tech inside a headphone this is not true if this was place in a transmitting tower as used by some wireless headphones then there is no need to make any changes to the wireless headphones just add the zone technology to the transmitting tower.

As someone who hooked up a pair of Sennheiser RS 185's to the Sonos Connect, I see no reason for Sonos to spend resources to develop their own wireless headphones when consumers can already put together their own elegant solution so simply with the Connect. And the advantage of this setup is you're not limited to using these headphones only with Sonos. Buy a Connect, find yourself some quality headphones, and end this thread.

The reason why users would like a Sonos soluation rather than buying a connect and a wireless headseat is quite similar cost and convince of being able to move the unit to different rooms of the house.

Sonos makes money by selling speakers for a multiroom set up. So putting considerable resource into developing a single unit that allowed the music to follow you from room to room would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

IMO there is no chance of this happening.

I'd buy some.

The reason why users would like a Sonos soluation rather than buying a connect and a wireless headseat is quite similar cost and convince of being able to move the unit to different rooms of the house.

That's what I already do with my Sennheiser RS 185's. I have the Connect and the Sennheiser transmitter (connected via digital optical cable) in my basement office and can walk around any room upstairs (even two floors up) without missing a beat. And frankly, as good as Sonos speakers sound, I don't think they'll beat the likes of Sennheiser in the headphone world. They sound phenomenal and open up details in the music I never heard with my Sonos speakers.