shop equipment stereos

[Paul Canaris]

I use Worktunes hearing protectors and listen to NPR when using the power tools.
Otherwise this BERG issue unit.

[tod evans]

what is the i-pod some of you use? like a hard drive with music?

[Mark Singer]

I have a old JVC compact unit with CD tape and radio...2 decent speakers...good volumr. It is typically on light jazz, oldies or classical and on saturday morningd "The Car Guys" on NPR....I don't ty to overcome the machin sounds...I just hear it in the interludes...

[Tyler Howell]

Jay,
LMAOROTF in the saw dust.

My wife I tried out many systems that are much much like Tyler's, but I just could not live with listening to that level of distortion.

We've settled on hiring string quartets and bluegrass bands to play in the shop on alternate days. (Forutnately we can now live without a regular dose of opera so the cost is more reasonible than you might expect!)

The groups set up in the frinishing suite so that their insturments remain pristine. There's something of a selfish motive in letting them use the suite -- their instruments stay in tune in the carefully climate-controlled environment.

We never get headaches from listening to second-rate systems in the shop, and we are never bored.