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Home RTX Works well with TV
By Keith F on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014
This review is of the Miccus Home RTX Long Range. First off it come with a wall power pack, usb cable, one rca-rca cable set (for a dvd or stereo to Miccus) and one 3.5mm to rca cable (for tv headphone, smartphone or ipad audio output jack to Miccus audio in). I didn't see a photo of this in lsiting and in the description it is hidden in a line in the middle so I missed it came with this stuff and I had ordered a TV headphone to unit cable and then found one in the box now giving me extra uneeded parts. I have plenty of usb power widgets so that was not a concern. I only wish the ad listing made it clearer it already has everything in the box you would need to hook it up.. Setup was easy. Well at first I had a problem but then realized my headphones were still paired with my ipad. So unpair first if your headphones were already in use and I turned Bluetooth off in my ipad so as to not interfere. once that was done and a couple cables plugged in to power and tv headphone out the rest was easy. power unit on by holding on-off 3 seconds, you just don't quickly push this one. then it started flashing red and blue lights, this is the pairing mode. turn on headphones, press button on those. they paired up. pretty easy. As for sound staying in sync, I so no problem. I've watched 4-5 movies now and haven't seen any out of sync lips. Range is good too. With my ipad, the range for me with headphones didn't quite reach to the other end of the house. When going from my room to the kitchen I loose connection a little as I walk around a wall into the kitchen or I could not go all the way to the front of the house. They would sometimes loose connection in spots in the kitchen. With the miccus and same headphones and the tv-miccus transmitter is even a little farther away, no problem going to the kitchen and even farther to the front of the house. I didn't try the front porch yet but that is about the same distance I've already gone. Would be possible to listen to music while I'm out there. Once turned on, I've left the Miccus on. I turn my headphones off, recharge them and next time I turn them on they pair up without having to do anything. I like being able to keep the transmitter always on and always ready so I don't have to walk over to it and press on or other buttons every time I want to watch a program. All I do is hit power on tv remote, put on my headphones and I'm good to go. This makes watching tv when I lay down at night more pleasurable. This so far is the best transmitter I've had. I had a couple of those other smaller ones and they didn't go as far or the sound got out of sync with the video. update: Jan 28th 2014 Still working great. Use it every day. Range test: I said before with my headphone just linked to my ipad I could only go about halfway through the house (20 feet or so) before loosing connection. With the same headphones connected to the Miccus and that near the same transmit spot, actually a little farther away, I went down the hall (past the previous cut-off point), out the front door, across the porch, down the stairs and all the way to the mailbox by the road which is 42 feet from the front of the house, and still had audio playing in the headphones just fine. Total distance is over 80 feet and through 3 walls.
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Works well once you get it working, but c'mon
By St. Pete on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2013
Once I got this thing working, it works well. Range is quite good and it pairs easily with a variety of stuff. Sound quality is acceptable. The designers did good in that respect. But c'mon, there are some really stupid things that make this a device for geeks only. Seriously, did the guy with the brain at Miccus quit once they got the prototype working? For the price relative to some of the other options, it should be a little better implemented than it is. First up, the antenna. If you want any range you need it. A female plug into a female plug doesn't work, so you have to search around for a wire with the right diameter to jam in there and make a connection. Don't bother with this if you aren't geeky enough to have a bunch of different diameter wires around along with a wire stripper. I tried a paper clip, but it was a little too thin. Bending each end just a little might do the job, but I happened to have the right wire around. Wish I could tell you what gauge it is, but it wound up being some leftovers from my underground dog fence. Next up, power. All the included wires are all pathetically short. For power, this uses a mini-usb. OK, that's fine. They provide a small travel usb charging dongle and a 2' cord. Yeah, that's not going to make it. Luckily, I had an old phone charger with about a 6' cord laying around. Problem 2 dealt with. Hey, all that's left is to connect the audio input plug and I'm ready to go. For years we've gotten by with a cable that gets plugged into headphone or line-out ports of various devices and plays through the stereo. One of the things I liked about this device prior to buying it was that it could accept either RCA or a headphone style plug. That way we can still use our non-bluetooth devices if necessary by just popping out the plug. But when I plugged it in to my existing connection, it only played out one speaker. Ugghhh. So, I temporarily patched in their included cable and it played out only the other speaker. I found when I pushed it in really hard the other speaker would pop on. So, I shaved a little plastic off the connector and it works. I tested both cables with 3 other devices and all 3 would work with either cable. The Miccus never worked with my nicer, and significantly longer cable. So I'm stuck with my modification of their short and cheap cable if I want this thing to work. I expect this will be a problem in the future after we unplug it a few times. Luckily, I'm geeky enough that I can probably fix it. I shouldn't have to disassemble things out of the box though. But, from the reviews I read, some of the competing devices must be disassembled to work properly also. I'd like to be able to give this thing more stars, but I just can't. It would take very little to make this thing right, but the devil (and stars) is in the details. They didn't get those right. This thing would never work for my mother (and she would want one). The good (once you get it set up): - Good range - Acceptable sound quality - Easy to use The bad: - Antenna doesn't work as delivered, you must fix it to get the good points above - Super short cables - Poor quality 1/8" audio connectors This thing is trying to be a high-end device. The looks, packaging, and price sure make it seem that way. Underneath it's more like something someone assembled in their basement and expects you to figure out how to get it working right. If they just fixed the antenna I'd probably give it 4.5 stars. But I think that is indicative of their lack of attention to details on this product.
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