My brother-in-law works out about 1-1.5 hours every day. I bought him a decent set of tight-fitting wireless headphones, and he bikes, lifts, runs, and hits the heavy and fast bags wearing them.
We have to replace them once a year (due to nastyness of the padding), but he has had no troubles besides that. On 8/14/06, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get into the habit of working out (now that we've moved into > the mountains I'm not riding my bike to work ay longer). I've set up a > heavy bag in the (under-the-house) garage and am trying to spend some > quality time knocking the crap out of it. > > I'd like to listen to something while working. I see at least three > options: > > 1) Cheap out and get a little bookshelf CD player. I could burn CDs and > listen. > > 2) I could get a decent set of speakers compatible with my Pocket PC > (something that connects via a headphone jack and are self-amplified). I > wouldn't have to convert my audio but I would have copy whatever I want to > the device (which is what I do now). > > 3) Get a networked media player and a decent set of small speakers for it. > This would be my preference: access to my complete collection whenever I > want. No wires to connect, copies or discs to worry about. > > (My collection is WMA so any device would have to be compatible. It would > be great if it were also compatible with my ReadyNAS streaming media server > but that's not a necessity.) > > Any solution would have to be controllable from the garage (none of these > "media extenders" which are managed via a PC). I can easily run an Ethernet > connection into the garage but 802.11g wireless would be spiffy. > > It would be nice for the system to have at least a little oomph: just enough > so that we could also listen while washing the cars or doing laundry in the > attached utility room or the like. > > A radio would be nice, but not a high priority. > > Cost is an issue - I'd like to get this soon and don't have much free cash > right now. > > Any thoughts/recommendations? > > Jim Davis > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213113 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
