[magicalhobo]

I'm new to high end headphones and would like to get a nice pair of in-ear headphones for travel and the gym.
 
Currently, the only decent headphones I own are Sennheisers HD 448 and I'm very pleased with them. Before that I only used my 12 dollar skullcandies...
 
I was thinking that the max I would like to spend is about 200 dollars. I'm a college student and would like to get something nice with my tax returns, but nothing too crazy so I can still save.
 
I'm thinking about the Etymotic HF5's at the moment. Any other recommendations?
 
My musical taste varies. My top last.fm artists are (in order) Radiohead, The Knife, CocoRosie, Crystal Castles, Portishead, Royksopp, Aphex Twin, Metric, Fleet Foxes, DJ Shadow, and M83 if that helps at all.

 

[Dinglehoser]

HF5s are good cans. Very even frequency response, perhaps a touch dry and a little rolled off at the ends. Might also consider the SE315s, though I don't think they're necessarily enough better to warrant 2x the price.