Hei guys need some advice on buying earbuds for my cous's girlfriend on her birthday. Budget is RM200 max and below. I am very inexperience in budget purchases, as i am normally more acquainted with higher end purchases, but no offence. The only thing that comes to mind is the xiaomi piston and RE400 (2nd hand), are there any bang-for-buck more options here? I don't think sound signature is a problem, as i don't think she's looking to be an audiophile. Anything decent will be fine, as long as no boom boom earbuds that bleed into the mids. Please enlighten me Sifus out there

Haha i am an freak audiophile myself, philosophically and sentimentally my conscious wont let me do that I think everyone deserve a chance to enjoy good music too

@chabuchabu Thks for backing me up, yes i feel head-fi need better recognition although i do see much more sony budget headphones nowadays in LRTs (although i haven't really tried them). But i think this might be the right step. Just relieved my first actual headphones is the HD598 and not beats And no looking back after that, but my purse do look back alot haha

Anyway back to topic , anyone experienced with good earbuds under 200?

I did some quick search for reviews and since its price reasonably bought it on the whim, not too much harm done, i guess Bought one for office use, one for the birthday gift
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Hadn't had much experience with IEM/earbuds. the only experience i had was Phonak 232 (very good balanced, my favorite so far), and FAD piano VIII ( piece of crap, i wonder how they can sell it at the initial USD 1,000 price, no offence to FAD lovers out there). But the pistons for me is just for general use to block out office squabbling and gossiping LOL. If its better than I-buds or beats earphones why not?