The shennheisers are still in one piece, just seem to get a lot of interference when we have a room full of people.
I want some headset ones rather than handhelds for drama performances. With any equipment like that, I keep it locked away when not in use, get it out and prepped, it goes on the user, then comes off and straight back to me as soon as the show is over.
Yeah radio mics for a school has always been a case of hire in when needed, but there's so many occasions where people ask me for ones these days where we would get good use out of having our own, and I've been allocated this money as a one off, not out of departments budgets so I think its worth it. The department can't stretch to 200 odd quid to hire a set every time we want to use some. There's 4 sets of exam pieces every year plus 3 music concerts so that's over a grand a year if we hired some every time, which we don't.
Just want to get something that will last if well looked after for the money I have avaliable.