Bose is actually not very good either. Great marketing but poor sound.

Buy a set from a real Audio company. Any Harman brand like AKG, JBL, & HK. The new JBL S700 is one of the best sounds for the money ever.

Or any Sennheiser, Grado, or even some of the Sony headphones are good.

For in ear there is nothing better then the AKG K3003i. Seriously the worlds best in ear.

Skull Candy is mostly crap. They just hired their first actual engineer this year, so at least they are now trying. Most companies just buy off the shelf crap drivers from China and don't care how they sound.

Buy the new JBL S700 and never look back.

Mike