radio/headphones?

[quietann]

Question: where is a good place in the area to get a small headphone radio with good sound quality and good reception? Any recommendations as to brands, models, etc?

This will be for work. The kind of work I do will not be impeded by my listening to NPR, but my office mate wouldn't like it. She likes salsa and "inspirational" pop-soul, which I cope with, but it's not my preference. I either listen to NPR or WXRV independent rock, or, very occasionally, classical music.

I am not entirely sure that this will work, given my location in downtown Boston with lots of buildings all around, but I want to try. I can't listen to any of these stations on the web, for obvious reasons.

Comments

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I'd say that using internet radio would be okay in your situation, as long as you're not sitting on the website reading along. Although it would probably "look" better to not be tethered to your computer.

As for actual radio headphones, I have no advice, sorry.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

well, this is the problem -- I'd have to run a headphone cord to the next computer over, which has web access (mine does not). And keep a browser running all the time, which is what took me down the hole in the first place. And it is a pretty old computer, without a sound card as far as I can tell, so I don't even know if I can get streaming radio from it. I don't even know if it has a jack for headphones; it doesn't have a USB port, that I do know.

I suppose that before I do anything, I should borrow Ben's headphones and see if I can use them on that computer. I'd rather not buy a radio, and as I have said, the fact that I am more or less surrounded by buildings makes radio reception iffy at best. If Janet objects to me wearing headphones, I'll explain to her that actually, Brenda's music *does* bother me, but I don't want to make her stop playing it. I think part of the reason I sink into the web is the same reason I can sink into a book to the point where I am snappish if interrupted -- it distracts me from my very unquiet mind. This has been one of the problems with my work -- it is NOT interesting enough to be override the internal monologue.