Yeah, of course, I meant the receiver in order to hook up my iPhone by BT to the AUX port of the car radio.
Regarding the MDR-1RBT MK2 that I had to send back, I got them on ebay from Southkorea.
Still having the Sennheiser Momentum Wireless here (along with my Plantronics Backbeat Pro). Will probably send back the Momentum next week due to the piss poor BT connection. Though to be fair, even with a more stable BT connection, at that price they would have needed to absolutely blow me away, and sadly they don't.
Very well possible that I'll give them another try once the Sony MDR-1ABT are out in May. For comparisons sake and should hopefully be cheaper by then. The Plantronics are a good placeholder until then. Maybe even more.
My opinion? I think that Sennheiser is lazy and conservative.
I am also not sure, but somehow I have the impression that they are few and old people there, because every single time, believe me, every single time that I call or write, the SAME guy answer me. And I mean, Sennheiser maybe does not sell as much as Beats and does not need 500 Customer Care representatives, but, ONE?
I mean, when I called, when I wrote to the support, and when I wrote a suggestion in the online form in the "feedback" section, the SAME guy answered.
Whatever.
What I wanted to say is that from how he spook to me of BT, I had the impression that Sennheiser just hate BT.
They do it just to please people and gain a bit of market more but they see it as something bad for the sound.
Which, I mean, everybody know that BT is not as good as wired, but there are people who need BT, and those people deserve good headphones too, so if you produce headphones, and you can make people happy by doing better BT headphones, why not?
But I think they are lazy and do not want to invest time in the BT research, and so they still have the SAME bt hardware and put it in just every new headphone.
Look, the prehistoric MM550-X had already Noise Gard. And it already sucked.
They KNOW that people are craving for good ANC, and they use the same ****ty Noise Gard in their new models.
They know that the range is not good, even their USB adapter sucks, but they do NOTHING to change that.
If I am wrong, I apologize with Sennheiser, but if I am right, they should apologize with us, because the cost of the Momentum (new model) wired is 319 and the BT version is 449, and you can NOT make people pay 130 Euro more just to put there the same old crappy bt technology which you use since the MM series.
But maybe I am wrong, because he somehow told me that since the MM they had be making research and improvements.
Or maybe they should have made more improvements, if people still complain about the same (poor range, poor anc).
I mean, for me the ANC of the BeoPlay H8 sucks, and people say it is better than the Momentum (apart for the hiss).
So...
Tell me, when do you have range problems? I suppose that not outdoors with the source (phone) in your pockets?
Probably at home, while walking around far from the source?
In that case, what is the source? A USB dongle? Or what?
Because a guy in another thread posted this:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4-Bluetooth-USB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%80%E3%83%97%E3%82%BF-class1-MM-BTUD43/dp/B00HX64XUM/ref=pd_sim_computers_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1BZSCPHH9FTQRSVJF7YT
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B007PVKOO4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AN1VRQENFRJN5
They are class 1 dongle with aptx.
For now there still is no class 1 3.5 adapter, in case that is what you need, but Avantree is making one which can or not be class 1, but will have an antenna and a wonderful range, and have 3.5 and optical connections. And low latency.
But, still in to do.
So, yes, the momentum are class 2, so paired with a class 1 dongle you still have class 1, but I kind of think (cannot bet my life on it though) that still even that the class 1 dongle would put some more range in the game.
I mean. if you absolutely want the Momentum...
But, you are right. For what they cost, they should amaze you more.
And for what the BBP cost, they are probably more than a peaceholder :=)
May I know where and for what do you use the headphones? Outdoor or at home? Also for calls?
Because now the Pendulumic Stance S1+ are available in Amazon UK (and soon also in DE), and they are said to be very good in sound (I will confirm next week).
But, they do not seem very portable, so, They kind of are to me more a home thing.
Also because IF it is true (I have only read it from one guy) they have a "closed mic" which means that when you call you do not hear your voice through the headphone. Which must not be so bad, considering that apparently they do not isolate sound very much according to the same person. So you can hear your voice from outside of the headphones
but... consider them?