When I share product reviews they are exclusively food &
beverage related. This week I will depart from that truth to tell you about the
experience I've had with the Sony Walkman W Meb Keflezighi Edition.
I received my Sony Walkman W as a perk from Klout.com. I’m
not a runner, one of the intended audiences, but I do walk a lot, hike and work
out in the yard & gardens quite a bit. And working out in the yard is where
I found the Walkman W to be a fantastic product.
I've been on a binge with the yard-work in the last couple
of weeks. Between getting the existing gardens prepped & planted, clearing
for new gardens, new landscaping in the front yard and some spot seeding I’ve
probably spent almost an entire work week out there since Memorial Day weekend.
Margot has helped with the work quite a bit, but during the times where we have
worked in separate parts of the yard or when she was working elsewhere I've
enjoyed taking my music with me as a work.
The Sony Walkman W is a about the side of a normal pair of
headsets, with small modules at each ear for the electronics and a rubber
coated cable connected the two. It has a USB plug for charging and to transfer
music. It is designed to be water resistant, not swimming waterproof though, but
more so sweat and rain-proof. I've tested both of those scenarios successfully.
The sound quality of the unit is exceptional. My music of
choice the last couple of weeks has been live recordings of The Grateful Dead
and the Jerry Garcia Band. Some of the audience recordings have good sound
quality on their own and others have a bit more of the ambient noise. Even at
the max volume the Sony Walkman W does a great job of making the music sound
great. I don’t know exactly what the battery life is in practice (the web site
says 8 hours), but I haven’t run out in between chargings which have been
sporadic since I have been using it.
( A glimpse of what some of all the hard work has been about. )
I'll take a quick detour to share an observation
specifically about my choice of music. The pairing of audience recordings of
the Grateful Dead and yard work turned out to be superb, bordering on ethereal.
The Dead never played the same show twice so the improvisational and organic
quality to any collection of live recordings is part of the allure. Working in
the garden is connective exercise, human with earth, and that activity and the music
seemed linked in a spiritual way. I
prefer to listen to live music outdoors, it just feels better, and I think the
experiences I have had in the yard these last few weeks are an extension of those
feelings. With the added rush of the physical labor I was genuinely happy even
after long, hard days of labor.
I would highly recommend the Sony Walkman W to anyone who I
active and would like to take their music on the go. It is light, comfortable,
powerful and has enough storage (2GB) to listen to unique tracks for at least a
few hours. The product retails for $69 at Sony's web site. Don’t worry about it
getting sweaty or wet, it will keep on truckin'!
Cheers!
Jason
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