Hey I just wanted to check in

Hey I just wanted to check in and thank everyone for their suggestions.  In the end I went with the Thinksound ts01.

Since I had bundled that order with another item there was a delay in getting them shipped.  In the interim I purchased one of those $10 or $12 sets from Wal Mart (yeah yeah I know but this is how we learn, right?) because I would be traveling again before the ts01s got here and wanted something to use while I was away.  Those darn things weren’t any better than the garbage that came with my phone and are just barely a step up from those ear buds that Continental Airlines gives you (I tried them too once) to watch DirecTV while on board their planes.

Anyways a little voice in the back of my head was telling me that something that little really can’t be all that good based on my latest experience so my expectations for the ts01s was starting to drop as overall they are sort of middle of the road cost-wise.

The Thinksound ear buds finally arrive one day and I plug them into my phone.  I crank up Jazz Radio and I am stunned what I hear coming from a phone and those new ear buds.  I had no idea that that quality of sound could be produced from a cell phone and a set of ear buds.  I then jammed the ear buds into my laptop to see how music from that source sounds – I was pleasantly surprised once again.   Now granted I’m not talking quality equal to high end content listened through a good receiver and headphones but compared to what I had before it was like going from AM to FM. 

Thanks to all who lent their 2 cents, I really appreciate it.