Altec Lansing AHP612 August 1st, 2006 | by Nino Marchetti
Full Review
Design and Features
Out of the box, the Altec Lansing AHP612 package includes the wireless stereo headphones, a transmitter/charging base, an RCA cable, a 3.5 mm Y-adapter cable, 3 AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries, an AC power adapter, user’s manual and quick start guide. Altec Lansing describes the AHP612 wireless stereo headphones, which make use of 900 MHz wireless technology, as being capable of delivering “drift- and static-free reception” up to 150 feet away, even through “walls, floors, ceilings and other obstacles”.
Taking a look at the headphones first, the AHP612’s design is found to be slightly heavy, but not of the best construction. The outer headband, while flexible and somewhat solid feeling, doesn’t feel securely built as one shakes it around in the hand. This, coupled with the unattractive inner self-adjusting headband, leaves not a lot to look at on the top half of the headphones.
Moving down to the ear cups, the design looks a little more appealing. Each cup has a nice glossy black finish lined on the exterior coupled with comfortable, soft leatherette ear cushions completely enclosing the ears. Each ear cup sports a well laid out face design, including on the left ear cup an on/off/scan button, wireless link light and charging contacts, while the right ear cup has mute and volume control buttons as well as a mute indicator light.
The charging base which doubles as a transmitter and which the headphones rest when they are charging, is nothing much to look at. It has a silver finish, a light, plastic feel and a boring design. The upper portion of the base has the wireless transmitter, charge and audio level indicator lights and the charging contacts. On the back side of the base are the channel select switch, input level control, RCA audio input jacks and the transmitter power input jack.
Image Courtesy of Altec Lansing
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by kruzer on November 8, 2009:
“AHP612 is a good product when it works. I had to send back the first unit. Kept cutting out and the sound was static laced. They replaced it without any problem. The second unit works fine, but the ear-piece where the battery located does not snap on. It's...” More...
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by Ernie deFrank on November 8, 2009:
“I recently bought this product. It did not work at all. Scan tuning did not work. I am returning it. I went out and bought a $25.00 Sentry ho800 from Walmart. It works great! The only down side is that it doesn't come with a transformer. It chews up 9 volt...” More...