Amazing Value – Maxell Peanutz
I don’t own an iPod…I felt that needed to be said first. Matter of fact, I’ll say it again. I do not own an iPod,
have never owned an iPod. My first .mp3 player was a Palm Tungsten E. I’m a B-boy at heart and have a long, storied relationship with choices in headphones. Now that I’m all grown up, I use headphones very differently than as a teen. Used to be, my headphones were for the bus ride on school trips, (to and from track meets or marching band engagements,) the ride to and from school, and a few other select situations. It was all about volume then, mostly bass. I had no appreciation for a soundstage experience, midranges, clarity…none of that. I wanted the person two seats over to hear the bass from my headphones. If they could, (and made that irritated face) then I considered those headphones a success.
Nowadays things are very different. My ear for music has matured quite a bit, in genres and sound. But, the role music plays in my life has changed quite a bit as well. A good harbinger of this is my first .mp3 player. Not a dedicated sound device at all, instead a PDA. Music to me now is one of several timelines or streams in my day. Sometimes that stream is muted or empty, but it’s always present, concurrent to the other streams in my life. When I moved from the Tungsten to my first Treo (650) this concept of life streams really took shape. In fact, the framework of my day-to-day experience hasn’t changed much since then.
You say, “I thought this post was about some amazing value?” I say: Who’s blog is this? Look up if you’re confused…go ahead, I’ll wait. –
Right, it says TreoBenny 2009, which means the posts here go like I want, being TreoBenny and all. Now if you don’t mind, I’d like to continue for those that like to read my writing…all four of them.
While still carrying the 650, I made the jump to Bluetooth audio. Mostly because my wired solution was killed do to a drop, but that’s another story. While there is reduction in sound quality, it’s a price I pay readily for scrapping wires. As I eluded to earlier, the role digital music has in my life is one of support. It goes alongside all of my other activities and needs to be extremely mobile. Bluetooth accomplishes this famously. 
I use my BT headphones at home as well, thanks to a class 1 USB dongle. So, for a long time I had no use for wired headphones at all. Then I re-entered the mobile PC world with a netbook and notebook purchase. Because I spend significantly more time on the notebook than netbook, I realized I’d need some kind of personal audio solution. I was damn tempted to get a mobile Bluetooth adapter (c’mon, it’s cute as hell) but I fought off the urge. Besides, this model of notebook has only 2 USB ports (I know, crazy) one for the air card, one for the mobile HDD. I have a hub but…ok
I’m getting off topic again. So, I decided I need some headphones. I wanted earbuds, small as possible. I wasn’t too concerned with quality, just as long as I could hear the music in something no louder than a coffee shop or restaurant. And dear.God.not.white!
Enter Peanutz
I decided to give Walgreen’s a try after looking online for decent earbuds. $40? Really? I was prepared to sacrifice quality and comfort, I just wanted something small and inexpensive. Low and behold, i come across these gems.
