[Polpolion]

If you recall correctly, I made a thread to inquire about headphones a while back. Those headphones I got are still in perfectly good condition. But some unfortunate events have recently occurred.  My three pairs of ear buds have broken within four months of each other. It's not that bad though, one came stock with my MP3 player so they were pretty much worthless before and another I stole from my brother when my original one broke.

Now I am in the process of procuring a new pair. All I desire from the new pair is good sound quality, and not too long a cord. Maybe around 3 or 4 feet long at most. My price range is up to about 25 USD, because I don't want to spend all that much on these.

Any suggestions?

[Nuke]

im looking for some good earbuds as well, my 1-year-old pair of stock ipod headphones, which only sound good on an ipod and nothing else (i wonder if apple tweaked the specs of their earbuds so that only they sound good on an ipod). anyway i bought a $15 pair of headphones, i forget who made them. total waste of money. i bought a $3.99 pair of koss headphones that sounded better, though not as good as my old ones. im not a big fan of sony, last 2 pairs of their headphones i bought broke fairly quickly. i dont think that theres such a thing as high quality earbuds. if you want good sound you need to buy a rather bulky pair of headphones.

[Woolie Wool]

Don't buy earbuds. They sound like garbage, and there aren't any earbuds that don't. I recommend these for relatively inexpensive headphones:

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-280-Headphones-ear-cup/dp/B0000E1O7Y/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/102-6785382-2222501?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1185146779&sr=8-3

[Nuke]

like i said, you want good sound, you have to look like one of those audiophile geeks

[Ghostavo]

The guy is asking for advice to buy earbuds to a limit of 25 dollars and you give him a 100 dollars headphone?

By that price range you might as well offer him this.


Anyway, currently I'm using these and I don't have any complaints.

[Polpolion]

Don't buy earbuds. They sound like garbage, and there aren't any earbuds that don't. I recommend these for relatively inexpensive headphones:

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-2IeditedthelinktomakeitfitinthescreenE1O7Y/ref=pd_bbs_sel79&sr=8-3

Umm... I said in my first post that the pair of headphones that I recently purchased were in fine working condition. I have a pair of HD215s. It's just that it's hard to wear those running while or riding a bike or smuggling around in a backpack without them breaking.

[Herra Tohtori]

Get Koss Sparkplugs.

Built to last, The SparkPlug is covered under Koss' No-Questions-Asked Lifetime Warranty - the only warranty of its kind in the stereophone industry.

Frequency response 10-20000 Hz. I also prefer to close the bass reflex holes on them with adhesive tape. It rather clearly makes them block even more outside sound out, which makes it possible to listen with pretty low volume, even at rather high background noise levels.

The only negative things I can think of these is that you likely need a graphic equalizer of some kind to be able to adjust the mid-range frequencies down and treble way up, otherwise they sound weird to me at least... the other negative thing is the fact that the actual plug cushions are not included in the warranty, only the phones themselves.

[Polpolion]

Get Koss Sparkplugs.

Built to last, The SparkPlug is covered under Koss' No-Questions-Asked Lifetime Warranty - the only warranty of its kind in the stereophone industry.

Frequency response 10-20000 Hz. I also prefer to close the bass reflex holes on them with adhesive tape. It rather clearly makes them block even more outside sound out, which makes it possible to listen with pretty low volume, even at rather high background noise levels.

The only negative things I can think of these is that you likely need a graphic equalizer of some kind to be able to adjust the mid-range frequencies down and treble way up, otherwise they sound weird to me at least... the other negative thing is the fact that the actual plug cushions are not included in the warranty, only the phones themselves.

That one actually looks very nice. The distortion looks a bit high, compared to some seinheissers, though. Although the warrenty only includes the actual earbuds, it's still a huge boon. Better something than nothing.

[IncendiaryLemon]

Don't buy earbuds. They sound like garbage, and there aren't any earbuds that don't.

 I'm not sure if your making a distinction between "ear buds" and "In Ear Monitors."

 IEMs offer the greatest sound quality for the least amount of money. Entry level is 80-100 USD but the sound quality will excede headphones that cost twice as much. My entry level Shures for example offer clearer audio than my AKG 601s. The disadvantage is comfort, If I'm traveling its not an issue but at a desk I'll always grab my full sized headset. IEMs also sit in your ear canal and will require cleaning.

[Mars]

IEMs also sit in your ear canal and will require cleaning.

ew

[Nuke]

im not a big fan of inserting things into my bodily orifaces

[Davros]

Thats not what we've heard

[Nuke]

the rules state that every noob must be probed before his 200th post, looks like your number is nearly up