When Traveling, Best Way to Hear CDs...

Kublakhan, I'd have to agree with you, sort of. Owned a pair of Ety's for a few weeks, but I suppose my ears are built somehow different, couldn't find a comfortable position to use them. I was suprised and impressed with they way they sounded, but couldn't use them for more than 30 minutes. Faced with the option of paying to have them custom fit for my ears, I chose to return them to Headroom in exchange for some Sennheiser HD600's. Comfy, sound terrific but aren't as easy to travel with. I throw my Panasonic CDP, Headroom amp, and cans in a backpack and I'm good to go. Buying from Headroom, you can exchange should you need to, good guys to deal with. Jeff

I used to fly quite a bit and portability was king. I found my best solution was a set of Sony NC-20 noise reduction headphones and a Sony D-335 CD player (an old $300+ model). The noice cancellation could have been more powerful but at it allowed me to listen to music at comfortable levels while flying. For you flyers out there, the BEST earplugs are those translucent gummy ones - much more comfortable and effective than the foam plugs.

jeff, i agree, the senn hd600 are better phones but they make a lot of noise for people sitting next to you on a plane. i've heard that etymotics are suitable (comfortable) for something like 80% of the public. the rest need to get custom fitted earpieces which are super pricey. since there is the 30 refund policy it's worth trying i think. of course, this is all a bit off topic since mcrheist prefers a non-can system. for that i'm stumped. sorry.

I travel a lot and love the Ety's. I have used a radio shack 3400 until recently and went with the creative labs 64mb MP3 player. I can store 100 cd's and no need to carry software. The sound is quite good. This has been a great solution for me.

You can store hundreds of CDs on your laptop. Use Windows Media Player to rip your CDs to WMA (sounds better than MP3). You can also listen to WMA on many of the better MP3 players (Creative Nomad, Diamond Rio, etc.) and PocketPC devcies (Compaq iPaq) when you don't wany to use a laptop.