Originally Posted by frankyfingerz
u guys are crazy. never would i pay over $20..
It's not crazy - audio quality matters to some people and they're willing to pay for it. If it doesn't matter to you, then you don't buy expensive headphones, as you've chosen to do. For the most part, the "you get what you pay for" concept does apply to headphones and there can be a major difference in audio quality between cheap headphones and expensive ones (you can't tell just by looking at them - it's the internal parts that matter).
I don't think I have a good enough ear to appreciate this enough (nor do I encode my music at a high-enough quality to make it worthwhile) to buy really expensive headphones, but I can tell enough to know my Etymotics blow my OEM Apple earbuds out of the water and are worth every penny of the price difference. You wouldn't expend a $5,000 Yugo to perform the same as $60,000 BMW M3, would you? The same applies to headphones.