I ended up buying the lusty
Rio Carbon I wrote about. I use it all the time when I have to walk anywhere, and I've paired it up with a pair of Shure earbuds. The neat thing about the Shure earbuds is they act as ear plugs and block out all outside noise and let you enjoy only your music. Now this is a great thing for a music lover however I truly cannot hear a thing when I'm walking along the streets of Toronto. A person would walk past me and scare the bejesus out of me because I never heard them coming. When I cross the roads I look three to four times back and fourth like a compulsive because I can't hear cars. To make matters worse, because it's cold, I wear this huge black parka with a gigantic fur hood which pretty much tunnels my vision to about a 30 degree angle. Finally, I have this reoccuring fear for some reason that a piano will fall out of a window and crush me. Stupid cartoons. I'm surprised I don't think an anvil will fall on me.
