Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!hao!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Diskman, etc. considered harmful Message-ID: <223@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 01:53:43 EST Article-I.D.: opus.223 Posted: Wed Nov 6 01:53:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 01:58:01 EST References: <972@gitpyr.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 16 > If anyone has actually used a "Diskman" style CD player as a portable, I would > be interested in your review. I want to use one for skiing (downhill in > the white stuff...the only kind of real skiing). If anyone can explain why people use portable tape or CD players with headphones when skiing or bicycling, I would be interested in your explanation. I dearly love those little portables for having music around (e.g., even as I type) but I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would endanger life & limb by blocking out most possibility of audible warnings. If you're truly into skiing or bicycling absolutely solo, maybe yes (but then don't you appreciate the non-human-noise-polluted world?), but if there are other people around you really shouldn't be blocking out the occasional "Track" or "On yer left". -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.