Our upstairs neighbors have been complaining when we are watching movies after midnight on Pam's computer.
Part of it is the well known problem of dynamic range in movie audio - quiet dialog passages and very load action sequences. On the West Wing TV series the title music at the beginning and end is way louder than the average episode content.
Part of it is Pam's incredible computer subwoofer. We recently wrapped it in a bath towel, stuffing the horn with a corner of the towel.
What I would like to try: watching the video on Pam's computer monitor, but sending the audio wirelessly to headphones or earphones, so we could both listen silently.
A few years ago, I bought excellent Sennheiser headphones that used Kleer wireless technology. Now it seems that there are few products using Kleer tech.
Bluetooth 4.x with 3rd party AptX compression technology seems like a possibility. For $20 to $60 each, you can buy little bluetooth dongles for each pair of headphones and for the source (PC in our case; could be a smartphone, laptop, tablet, Blu-Ray or CD player, etc.)
We already have a wifi router, so Wifi audio may be another way to go, but there are far fewer wifi receiver dongles.
It's been difficult to find clear info on these options. Amazon is not the place to start for technical info -- sketchy product info and lots of uninformed customer reviews. Youtube has lots of unboxing videos and a few surprisingly informative amateur pieces. Wikipedia is somewhat helpful in understanding the standards but without any practical how-to for our situation. Headfi.org pays scant attention to wireless audio since by definition it is compressed and thus not HiFi.
The problem we are trying to solve seems fairly uncommon. The most common wireless solution is for people who want to watch and listen to internet content on their big screen TVs or home entertainment systems, not our situation at all.
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