[Shanghaiman]

the headphones that came with my HTC G1 headset

 

[brandnewgame]

Shure SE110. The bass was criminally underpowered and the treble was also veiled. I'd be surprised if anyone could love mids enough to enjoy them.

 

[Scott549]

I had the Sennheiser CX300s as my first IEMs.  Just barely tolerable.  Also a model of their earbuds from a few years ago, MX500 maybe?  They sounded totally lifeless.  Both of these made me question why Sennheiser would even bother making such products -- it damages their reputation, I think.  There should be some base level of quality you can expect from a brand.

 

[Marcus_C]

I bought a £10 mp3 player while visiting my sister a few years ago to get some tunes off her and the earphones that came with that were legendarily ****. In fact I bought my first pair of shure's in my first train connection gap at Cardiff on the way home by which time i think they'd probably stopped working in one ear. The mp3 player worked as a pen-drive though and lasted longer than the shure's.

 

[Wildcard30]

Archos earbuds that came with my pmp.

 

[Gastronomic]

For 1euro, I bought a Sonya aka chinese Sony.

 

[pekingduck]

Denon C351's.: Boomy bass, muddy sound, poor isolation, crappy cable..
 
They are worse than the iBuds, really...

 

[hodgjy]

Worst ever were some Labtec "iPod optimized" behind the neck cans.  They had "bass boost", which really should have said "bass reduction."  The only reason I got them was because when I first got my iPod, I hated the in-ear idea, and these were on sale.  They were $60 and marked down to $10.  I know why.  Absolute garbage.  Not even worth $1, let alone the $60 they started out as.

 

[Trager]

V-Moda Vibes. Those things were horrible, I couldn't take listening to them for more than a few minutes before my ears would start to bleed.

 

[JosephKim]

once when i was little i bought these earbuds at the grocery store for a dollar! LOL. these things were barely audible and broke in like 10 minutes. about 100000000 times worse than stock ipod buds if you can believe that.

 

[zacha]

The buds who came with my electronic dictionary. Yeah, you heard right, with an electronic dictionary.
Sure, it was a Canon dictionary, but that didn't mean the buds didn't suck.
 
I think I used them once for testing the (chinese) speech synthesis function on the dictionary, but even that sounded so bad that I threw them away ASAP.

 

[Chimera-se]

That's hilarious zacha! I've heard the stock Sony buds that come with the "x" series of their DAP's sound really good. But I don't own one.

 

[ddrddrddrddr]

Those dollar earbuds from meritline. It was like everything was put through a lowpass filter.

 

[Confispect]

cowon s9 buds<apple buds<Shure210

 

[madddskillz]

I used to sell mp3 players from China a couple of years back... and all of them came with horrible earphones!