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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Diskman, etc. considered harmful
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 01:53:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 01:53:43 1985
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> 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.