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I have an iphone 3GS. The stock earbuds sound like crap for music... muddy bass, no mid-range, muted treble, very little detail, et.al., plus they do not fit (too small for my ears); any movement and they fall out, but they do have a very good built-in remote and mic for voice control and calls. I have a pair of sennheiser mx500 (see head-fi.org) that sound pretty good for an inexpensive, portable set of earbuds, plus they fit my ears. The one thing I have not been able to find is a good set of earphones that have the control features of the OEM earbuds without a 3rd party dongle. If you know of such let me know. To get decent sound and the remote capabilities I took the earbuds from the mx500s and attached them to the OEM apple cable + remote. Now I have a decent sounding earbud that fits my ears and the ability to control the iphone via the built-in remote. It looks kind of funky... a white cable going to a darkish earbud but it works and sounds so nice that I am now doing the same to a set of koss ksc 75s (great sounding, inexpensive, portable earphones).