I've always been curious why scarcely anyone is interested in Phillips. They have a really comprehensive product range as far as I see, and their design has always been my favorite. I'm currently looking to move up one level (from the <$15 range) and the Philips SHL5200 CitiScape Metro look...

The SHE9551 and the SHE9620. They are probably the prettiest IEMs I've seen and are under $25. GoodGearGuide reviewed both and gave both 4/5 stars. But they're not audio specialist, so I just want to see how good these are by Head-Fiers' standards.

Now that summer's here I finally have time to get a good pair of IEMs. Actually I've been looking around for a while but couldn't ever decide on one. I've never EVER spent money on headphones before, so I have pretty much zero experience. Right now I have countless pairs of crappy earbuds and...