On Dec 15, 8:57 pm, Sarah F wrote:
On Dec 15, 7:46 pm, Lacustral wrote:
What kind of headphones work well on a rowing machine?
Could you copy the content of a compact disc to something small enough to
sit in a shirt pocket, and then plug headphones into that?
Or use a wireless headphone and have a CD player send its content to
that? I think there's a Bluetooth adapter that can be connected to
a CD player. There's a wireless headphone meant for working out but
according to the reviews it's uncomfortable and the signal drops out
sometimes. The headphones would have to be light and not get in the way
of sweat 
I like to listen to books on CD while rowing.
I don't know much about various new consumer electronics like Bluetooth,
etc.
Laura
I use an iPod shuffle when I'm erging. The in-ear headphones are
usually ok and don't fall out, though my husband wears different ones
that loop round his ears as the conventional in-ear ones don't stay in
his ears. For an old style shuffle you'd want an armband (or for the
other types of iPods/ mp3 players) but the new shuffles clip really
well onto lycra - I erged the other day with it clipped to the
shoulder strap of my one-piece, just have to make sure that the wires
go down my back where they can't flap around. You'd be able to convert
books etc into mp3s and then load them onto an mp3 player.
Hope that helps,
Sarah
I use a shuffle now, but I used to cope with cd players/minidisc
players, so long as the earphone cable is long enough and you feed it
down the inside of your clothing; then if you position the cd player
roughly in the middle of the stroke, it always seemed to work for me.
Peter