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I still maintain that these are the best ear buds (ear phones) on the market, “Koss: The Plug“.

From another post:
“I was unhappy w/ the volume of my new mp3 player, so I went looking for a volume booster, but they were too big (especially considering how small my mp3 player is) and then M told me that different headphones are louder than others, and when you look at the specifications, you want the highest “sensitivity” you can get. So I went to Best Buy and the headphones (well, earphones) that had the highest sensitivity were the Koss: The Plug ones.”

They go in your ear and are surrounded by soft rubber, so they lock out backround noise, and the sounds is just incredible.

It is funny, though, to be eating food with them in. Ever put in really good earplugs and realize you can hear your heart beat, and all sniffing, nose-rubbing, chewing, etc is amplified? Same thing here, but it’s not too bad cuz w/ the music playing it’s not distracting, at least once you get used to it. Chewing, though, is the loudest, and it was very odd eating at McDonalds with them in.

I was at Radio Shack the other day and they have their own version (I have no idea if they are the same w/ just their name on it or if they are copies, I have no idea if they have the same really good “sensitivity”) … and this kid/guy was telling his friends that those are the BEST earphones he’s EVER used and was going on and on about how awesome they are. I have to agree w/ him.

Gee, u think the KOSS website is messed up? -photo-

I have to say that now that I’ve done business w/ both, I can recommend TigerDirect.com and eCost.com.

We get great deals and have had no problems.

I finally got the U30 I wanted. (sony cybershot dsc-u30 tiny digital camera). I even got the blue color I wanted. I did a size-comparison before with it.

I kept checking prices and the thing was always $300 ($299). I found it at ecost.com for $150. Even w/ shipping it’s the cheapest I’ve found. I really love it.

It’s smaller than it’s brother the waterproof U60. I really love it.

I’m going to be putting some stuff up on ebay to offset the cost/guilt of this awful habit of camera-collecting.

RCA Lyra 128mb RD1071

Recommendation
Review

Ok, so M got this killer mp3 player and I was so jealous of it. So I got one for xmas, yay! I actually love it to death, it is so small, so tiny, has 128mb built in, takes SD cards (recently Wal-Mart had 128mb SD cards for $23!), has a display, comes w/ an armband, etc. It’s really great.

Except for one tiny thing: it plays songs in what amounts to random order. That’s fine for music, I guess, but not for the book-on-cd that I ripped to mp3! Books kinda have to be read/listened to in order!

Well, thankfully, all houses have their own high-end expert degreed genious professional computer programmer living in it, so I was able to have a custom GIU program designed that will allow me to select mp3 files and copy them over to the player in such a way that they will play back in order.

But, if you are not planning to need the songs to be played in order, it’s a REALLY great mp3 player. And coupled w/ the Koss Plugs, the sound is amazing.

I have to say, I was unhappy w/ the volume of my new mp3 player, so I went looking for a volume booster, but they were too big (especially considering how small my mp3 player is) and then M told me that different headphones are louder than others, and when you look at the specifications, you want the highest “sensitivity” you can get. So I went to Best Buy and the headphones (well, earphones) that had the highest sensitivity were the Koss: The Plug ones. Holy shit are they good! They are like earbuds, but they have these really soft rubber cones that go in your ears and I swear they sound as good as the best headphones out there!!! I say, if you are looking to improve the sound of your mp3 player (or cd player or walman or whatever), get these earphones!

Recommendation:
Now that I’ve made a major purchase and it went well, I can highly recommend Musician’s Friend… (MusiciansFriend.com).

I wanted a Digital Piano and the one I wanted was $1600 in town. Musician’s Friend had it for $1199 with FREE SHIPPING! (and digital piano’s are HEAVY!) It came in a matter of days by FedEx and we paid not a single penny in shipping!

I was nervous having never heard of them before, but when M inquired w/ a friend of his (who is an avid musician) about buying online, (but not mentioning Musician’s Friend), M’s friend recommended Musician’s Friend on his own, saying that he’d purchased an expensive guitar from them and the transaction went perfectly.

The salesman in town at the local piano shop tried to warn me that alot of online places “bait and switch” you, getting your credit card number and then telling you they don’t have it in stock but they can give you a different one (a lesser one) instead. Using this excuse the place here in town would not price match or even BUDGE a little bit on the price. But Musician’s Friend did not do any of these things. We ordered online and it showed up a few days later in perfect condition, not a penny in shipping. Yay!

Recommendation:
I like this program for ripping MP3′s:
Easy CD Ripper
From their website:
“Easy CD Ripper is an all-in-one music tool for ripping and converting. As a piece of famous CD Ripper software, it extracts audio CD tracks to audio formats MP3, WAV, WMA, VQF, OGG, APE with excellent output quality and high ripping speed.

“Besides professional ripping functions, it can clone CD bit by bit perfectly and supports MP3 ID3 V1/V2 edting, Free CDDB Submission, beautiful and changable skins, professional and user-friend interface, and much much more …”