Headphone.com has decent phones and good stats on them. They're pretty knowledgeable and after buying what is actually a kind of ridiculous variety of cans I've come to trust their ratings.
For earbuds, though, I just got a basic set of Sony thingies because I expect those to get destroyed in my pocket or lost or forgotten or run over by a chair. Earbuds are usually lame, but if you're walking around with it they're unobtrusive (i.e. you aren't that dork with the headphones on the T or whereever) and you can easily pocket them. They also usually let you hear if you're going to be run over by a car or if somebody is yelling at you. And if they're cheap and break or get stolen, oh well. Otherwise, get a pair of Grado SR-60's and be a big headphone nerd.
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Date: 2008-03-18 06:55 pm (UTC)For earbuds, though, I just got a basic set of Sony thingies because I expect those to get destroyed in my pocket or lost or forgotten or run over by a chair. Earbuds are usually lame, but if you're walking around with it they're unobtrusive (i.e. you aren't that dork with the headphones on the T or whereever) and you can easily pocket them. They also usually let you hear if you're going to be run over by a car or if somebody is yelling at you. And if they're cheap and break or get stolen, oh well. Otherwise, get a pair of Grado SR-60's and be a big headphone nerd.
Anyway, here's headphone.com's earbuds page.