As a newbie myself in sound quality, personally recommend Koss Protapro. It is one of the best headphone of 2010. I got it in US last year @ USD29.90. Sound quality is superb. but the downside is the radical design and the bass is abit on the high side, i felt my ear kind of pain after put it on for more than 30mins.

Other than that consider still a fair bargain.

But still thanks to the forumers in LYF only i know Koss... if not i will still stick with sonic gears