I've always been pretty happy with my original hesh set. Picke em up in 09'. One thing everybody seems to be missing out on is the fact that skullcandy has a lifetime warranty. Yup, that's right. I'm pretty hard on headphones, but the build quality on these things tends to give out on me in around a year, even if I just leave them at home, next to the bed (with fairly constant use ~3hrs a day average). So I send it back in and get a new pair for the price of one way S&H and never have to worry about breaking an expensive pair. Plus they've got a 50% warranty to cover any sort of accidental/crazy stupid damage as long as you give them the story. Now that they no longer stock the original hesh, I'll probably have to shell out 10$ to upgrade when I return them and get store credit, but I bought my damn headphones for something like 33-40 dollars when they were on sale, and I'm getting a pair of 60 dollar headphones with a lifetime warranty for 10$ whenever the current pair gives out. I mean I've been through something like 5-6 sets of these, and I pay something around 4-6$ SH to choose a new model every time the plastic wears out. I'm happy enough with this arrangement that I ended up returning a pair of beats I got for christmas so I wouldn't have to worry about breaking them (not that they necessarily would have been all that big an improvement sound wise...).
