Wireless Surround Sound Headphones

Stephen S asked:


I’m sorry if this question isn’t worded properly, but I really don’t know what I’m talking about. I don’t know much about sound related things. I’m referring to using them for an Xbox 360 if that’s important.

I’m currently living with a roommate who owns a surround system. We have a TV hooked up to a receiver which is connected to a generic 5.1 surround system. The thing is, he also has a set of wireless Sennheiser headphones which connect to the receiver through the headphone jack. Currently, if I want to listen to the headphones and not the speakers, I can simply tell the receiver to turn the speakers off. When that happens, sound is only played through the wireless headphones.

My question is, if I bought these Turtle Beach X1′s, what would I need to do in order to use them? The way the current headphones connect to the receiver is an adapter. There are 2 small cables coming from the headphone unit(red and black), which go into an adapter (1/4″ I think) which then plugs into the receivers headphone jack. When looking at the instructions on the Turtle Beach site, it shows some red and white cables going from the headset into your TV.

So really my question is, on this diagram (http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efx1/howdoesitwork.aspx) would I be able to plug those red and white cables at the bottom into the 1/4″ adapter used by the Sennheiser headphones and then plug that into the headphone jack? Would that work?