Sesible Headphone Solution

[Guest bongo_king]

So I want to use my decent headphones with my Hermes. I'm not interested in buying a bluetooth stereo headset, because I have better things to do than carry around 2 different sets of headphones, and because I want to be able to drive a stereo with my tunes, which means plugging the bugger in. As far as I can tell, there are 2 possible solutions - a wired adaptor which changes the mini usb to a 3.5 jack, such as this:

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?partner=modaco&i=145071

Or a Wireless bluetooth adaptor with a 3.5 jack socket on it, like this sony one, or the one reviewed here

I'm tempted to go for the wireless, so I don't have so many wires running around when I'm on my bike, especially seeing as I've killed a headphone socket on my last handset by keeping it plugged in too much, but I don't know enough about the technical side of things to know whether there'd be a sound quality loss. How does the A2DP work? Does it take the noise signal in digital before it hits the analogue to digital converter which feeds the speakers (and presumably the mutant usb/headphone socket)? Is the signal converted or compressed at all for bluetooth transmission? Any techies care to enlighten me?

Also, is anyone using any of the above solutions & recommending them to others (or recommending against them)?

Edited June 13, 2007 by bongo_king

[Guest bongo_king]

Noone?