Is anyone out there using wireless headphones or has figured out a way to use a wireless system for wireless headphones with the QC?
I’m looking for a way to use it for some silent practice - and would like to keep myself from getting tangled in cords.
There are some inexpensive analog-to-Bluetooth transmitters available but I think you’ll find that Bluetooth introduces too much latency. Bluetooth 5.0 adds about 40ms.
I use the XVive U4 Monitor Wireless System, it is only mono but works perfect without latency, and is rather cheap. If you use wireless connection for the guitar (in my case also from XVive) you may have to use a extension cable to avoid interferences.
The Yamaha YH-WL500 is designed for wireless instrument playing.
Implementing very low latency wireless technology (not Bluetooth) makes that possible. It works perfectly.
Bluetooth, however, is not capable of it at all.
Thanks! The Yamaha Headphones are exactly what I am looking for. Do you use them plugged into a normal output or the headphone jack?
Using it at the headphone jack.
Are these true wireless?
I’m using the AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio wireless headphones which have a latency of <10ms to practice in the evening hours while my wife is asleep.
Together with the Line6 Relay G10 wireless guitar bug it works for me… I don’t have any problems with the latency.
Would recommend not getting Bluetooth wireless. Their latency makes it unusable for any music/studio related applications. Price will be more expensive if you want the wireless to be in stereo. Realistically it’ll be a few hundred to get anything remotely useable or worthwhile. Otherwise a normal cable is the easiest and cheapest option.
As mentioned above, the Bluetooth 5 latency will make it virtually impossible to play because it’ll be around 40ms at the very least. The TMA-2 headphones would be your best bet since they don’t actually use Bluetooth. It’s a proprietary wireless connection that makes the latency lower, and they have a 2.4ghz mode as well.
The xvive option someone mentioned will be more useful…..but the unit will be in mono.
Wireless stuff is super tricky, expensive, and the sound quality will usually be weird unless you’re trying to get a 1k+ unit.
The base station (charging & transmission) is connected via cable to the QC, the headphone is wireless. Two connections are simultaneously possible - to the base station and to another bluetooth device. Product site.
I’ve got the yamaha wireless headphones, they work perfectly.
Expensive though at £245
Coupled with the Blackstar i58 wireless guitar system.
The headphones do what they were designed to do, but I’ve found mine don’t like heavy "Slipknot” like distortion.