A $10 pair of ear buds might wear out in six months, but they're $10 so who cares?

^ pretty much how i feel

Hmmm, my favourite headphones (AKG K141) are $125 new but mine are from 1978 and the new models do sound different. So I'm very careful with them :)

I'm using Skull Candy headphones, the Lowrider model. They do the job well, and only cost £30 or so. The only thing is they are a bit showoff-y, and I reckon people just assume I am an attention whore when I wak down the street with them. I was sick of buds though, always one side would end up losing sound quality dramatically, usually this was happening every 6 months (apple ones, JVC ones and sony ones were all guilty of this)

Not to make you mad but to prevent people from buying crap:
The skullcandy's (and boses, to be complete) are probably the worst headphones you can buy for more than 10 pounds. You pay for the design. A 9 pound Philips SHP2000 sounds way better. Don't change a thing if you like them, but as far as sound quality goes, they are no value for money.

I would say they dont really give a balanced sound, they are more bassy than anything else which does distort what you're listening to. I personally dont mind that too much, I like my music loud and bassy so they work for what I want.

Unless I was supposed to go into a rage? In which case AARRGGHH!!!

Hahaha, I'm glad you respond honestly ;).
Loads of people don't want to hear what I think :D.
You might want to try those philipses I mentioned next time.
They're terriffic. I don't use mine very often as I've got four pairs of headphones that are better. I just bought them because I think they're brilliant value. I just wanted to sponsor them I guess :D.

I'm completely out of my headphones phase.

What good is music if you don't share it with your neighbours at 90 decibels at 3 am?

lol I hate my neighbors for that. Whenever they hear my little laptop playing something they always want to have a battle of music/systems. Yeah I get it, you have an awesome set up, play that **** some other time, not when I'm playing a song on my laptop so I can hear it in the kitchen while i'm cooking/cleaning.

i wish everyone would calm down and stop fusssing stupid ****