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Originally Posted by christoph1 
Hi,
I am thinking of getting a set of skullcandy headphones for my friend as a gift as I know he will love how they look.
What are your opinions on their sound quality? I know they have some really beefy bass drivers but are they good for general listening as well.
I was thinking of getting him these SK Pro Emerald/White as they look brilliant.
I look forward to your opinions
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I have listened to a variety of skullcandy headphones, and none of them so far sound even mildy impressive at their pricepoints. Sorry. Their new stuff looks like it might be quite good, but here you have to make a choice. Do you really want to give you friend better audio, or something that looks nice?
Also, honestly head-fi people, I don't think there's any need to bash SK designs. The SQ bashing isn't excessive, the design bashing is, IMO. Build quality may stink, sound may stink but their design is fine, and props to them for actually doing something different. All these hifi cans all look the same. I don't like almost any SK designs, but at least they are actually somewhat inspired, and not the usual black white and silver(god forbid any sort of pattern). People actually do like colors and theres no reason headphones can't be a fashion accessory.
Some of their designs I think are atrocious(that bullet one... eww), but the point is they actually give you
options. One particular design on one headphone may be yucky, but other designs might be decent or even nice. That's more than almost any other company can say except on their extremely low end products.
On the other hand, their logo annoys me =P