Music has the power to lift, drop, and otherwise change your perspective and mood.
I listen to music when I wake up in the morning, driving, at work, at lunch, after work, and I listen to music sometimes before going to bed (unless it is likely to keep me from sleeping then that’s a no-no). I may not be in the music industry, but I guess it could be said that music is a part of my life. That being said…
I am not a huge audiophile who has terabytes of lossless audio on a storage farm somewhere. I have a lot of CD’s and Cassettes that are barely touched anymore. I have three Apple MP3/music players. (a 1st gen shuffle for when I am expecting to be rough, an iPod classic that I have had for years and used to use exclusively, and finally a 5th gen iPod touch. I have so much music that I can fill the 160 GB classic up and still not put everything I have on it. (That’s not including the music I have on cassette tapes -which I don’t know what I will do with.)
I listen with a three-piece desktop speaker set at work when people aren’t around, but I can only make the volume just so low on the things before people in the hall can no longer hear the music.
This weekend while at SAMS Club I saw a pair of Bose® On-Ear Audio Headphones for less than $100. After trying the demo pair on a couple of times to see if it fit on my head correctly, I decided to get one.
I listen to music while at work, and now I listen with a pair of Bose headphones. “For those days when you wish to listen to music that others may feel is offensive or just plain loud…”
Today was one of those days I needed to hear music louder than what my co-workers might enjoy.
I have to say that even though they aren’t as expensive as some of the other Bose speakers or headsets they are producing some excellent sound. -What I am saying there is there was no way I was going to buy a pair of Dre’s Beats headphones. (Sorry Dr. Dre, just can’t see myself spending as much as stores want for a pair of headphones that may or may not last a long while.
(Minor note: they also had in-ear headphones made by Bose for basically the same price. I like in-ear headphones for phone calls and short periods of time but the longer I have them in my ears, the more my ears begin to get irritated.)
I went to the Bose website and had a difficult time finding the same headset (by a picture); I am not sure if that makes these a “lesser pair” or not. I am sure that they seem to be doing a good job for the price I paid.
In the package was the following: the headphones, two lengths of cord to plug from the headphones to the audio device, the usual manual/get started kind of book in 30 languages, the case that the headphones fold up into, and a bag of desiccant.
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Wow, 548 words in this post before the line above, I must have been channeling the writing gods or something…
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