(Fwd) FW: [Publib] question about headphone size and battery u

[Marla]

Below find a copy of the response from Viccy's BWI rep. about headphone use, etc.

I don't know if this makes it any better or not.  I'll let the reader make his/her own decision.


BYE! 
Marla/Acquisitions
Great Falls Public Library 
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT  59401-2593
mwilckens at mtlilb.org

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-----Original Message-----
From: Blint, Jay [mailto:jblint at bwibooks.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:48 PM
To: Victoria Kemp
Subject: RE: [Publib] question about headphone size and battery use

Viccy,

Thanks for your email.   And a great question!   An "Alkaline"  Triple a
battery will last for 12 hours of use.

I use the time element rather than saying playing thru one book as a
patron could play some chapters several times and use up the 12 hour
window before a book is finished.

Also in a language course playaway example it might take me 12 hours to
get thru chapter 1 in a 15 chapter language training course from playing
over and over  " donde esta los banos" and finally learning I was asking
" where are the bathrooms " instead of what I wanted to say was " how to
I buy a lottery ticket"?

Anyway if a " non alkaline " battery is used the playing time of the
unit drops off by as much as 50% in my experience.

Now for the Head phone issue.    I have purchased several types of head
sets at various dollar stores from $ 1.00 to $ 5.00.   I still had
around 12 hours of playing time.

The type of head phones that would produce a " concert quality "
reproduction of the narration do require extra power.  However those
type of head phones usually require some batteries in the head phones
themselves to power the high quality amplification unit built into these
type of head sets.  The head phones are not powered from the power
source in the playing unit.

If a patron owns these type of head sets they know about the power they
need for their head phone unit.

Please let me know if I win the award for thoroughly confusing the
issue!

Best Regards,

Jay Blint

Regional Account Manager

BWI... A Follett Corporation Company

 



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