Wow, super old thread revived.

btw, based on my use these several days, EarPods serves much needs adequately. In short, it may be the best free stock pair that came with any device.

It's good enough, so you can bear with EarPods for an enough long time while saving much for higher range models. Yup, last time Apple stock earphones for iPhones and iPods does sounds like crap, that you don't have to bother to even unwrap them.