A sound system Most of us listen to music in our rooms. While these are very good alternatives, I recommend the Cambridge Audio Model 12 system. This choice of many of my colleagues is self-contained in an aluminum briefcase. It has treble and bass controls. The choices for input are many.
CD players are common and getting cheaper all the time.
You'll thank yourself on the occasional bumby bus ride. MiniDisk players are more compact and have almost as good a sound as CDs. The new boom is with MP3 players. Whether on the computer or in a handheld player, the thought of 10 hours of great sounding music on a single CDRom is pretty exciting. A Personal Digital Assistant I have actually taken a Palm III and its modem on tour instead of a computer.