What kind of music do you listen ? If you like classical, maybe the Brainvaz R1 isn't a good option. What are you looking for when you listen to music ? Bass, dynamic, medium, treble ? For less than 50 $, you have a lot of earphones on the market with a good SQ like the Brainwavz R1, M4, Head-direct RE-0 (49$ at the head-direct's site) and so on. You can take a look to the multi-reviews of iemof made by |joker| or ClieOS, to be shure of what kind of signature you're looking at.