For that purpose I like these:
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-SHE3900BK-27-In-Ear-Headphones/dp/B00N2PJMXG
They really sound pretty great.
OMG⌠how is your hearing now?!
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Oh, no damage at all. I went to the doctorâs office and go some antibiotic dropsâshe said my ear canal was very clean and I did a great job cleaning it. 
But since the ear canal was a bit reddish in color, they wanted to stave off any possible infection.
I think what happened was a fluke, but I realized that all that shoving in the earbuds probably meant that this style wasnât working for me. Think about all of the millions of ears in which this scenario hasnât happened!
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My mac book pro has a death grip on the ear phone jack. I have had it slowly kill 3 sets so far. First one ear goes out then both. Probably partly my fault for not gripping close to the plug.
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Ultra low profile. Thatâs what I want and what none of these seem to provide. I use mine while cycling, and youâd be amazed how much difference the shape of the stub makes to the sound. Basically with half an inch of flange sticking out at 15mph you can hardly hear a damned thing.
And they all break, so Iâve never really been convinced hat sinking $30+ on something that will snag on a door and rip itâs connectors out is worth the bother.
For me the Right one is marked with an R.
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I use a stereo bluetooth headset with pointy sharp edged buttons. Thereâs only one âright wayâ to put it on. Otherwise the buttons dig into your neck.
Turns out for the phones I use, bluetooth headsets use less power than plugged in headphones. I couldnât believe it myself until I actually experimented on it. I guess the headsetâs internal battery does all the heavy lifting of amplification, and the bluetooth radio transmitter uses less power than the headphone amp circuit in my phone.
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Iâm glad to see Iâm not the only one who has great difficulty with earbuds. They hurt my ears and they never stay in. My right ear-hole must be weirdly-shaped, because any earbud will just slide out, even when Iâm sitting still.
Iâve got those Samsung ones that @Missy_Pants has. I havenât tried them yet but they look pretty good.
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Iâve given up on indestructible, and settled for cheap enough to replace when they inevitably fall apart. Iâm apparently super hard on earbuds, because Iâm lucky if I get a year of use before they get wrecked
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Theyâre good! They just sort of sit there, they donât go inside your ear canal. You can jam them in to create a âsealâ but I prefer to be able to hear traffic and sounds around me. I seriously hope they start selling them separately from the phone. Cuz I will cry when I break/lose these ones!
Iâm of canalphone-tolerant anatomy, and find them to be very nice in the sound-quality-per-dollar arena. My current favorites are:
#Xiaomi Hybrid IEM aka Piston 4 (around $30)
The latest and greatest from the masters of cheap-and-good. Sounds as good as my previous favorite ($60 Sonys), but is better built with all the metal-looking bits being actual metal, valiantly tangle-resistant cables and not-too-bad microphone built in. The only complaint is that while the play-pause button and microphone work fine with an iPhone, the up and down volume buttons are an Android only feature, apparently out of spite. I have another, much cheaper set of Xiaomis that donât have this problem. Shame!
(Also, design award! Not bad for a budget brand.)
#Something something Q7? QY7 maybe? (I paid $8)
This is suspiciously similar to the âMOOVEâ one in the article, and I wouldnât doubt itâs exactly the same product. Itâs apparently a very popular model sold under many, many names. What I did was search for âbluetooth headsetâ on AliExpress and find the cheapest one that looked like this. Passable sound, passable mic, and the battery lasts a few hours but not much more. Still a favorite because of the lightweight wireless aspect, which is surprisingly useful. Sometimes the voice prompt reverts to chinese on its own, but itâs an easy fix.
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Then one summer, I noticed my hearing diminishing. So I bought some over-the-counter ear wax cleaner and when I sprayed my ear canal out with warm water, out came that little missing piece of mesh along withâŚwell, Iâll let you picture what happens to a foreign object when itâs left in your ear for some time.
[/quote]Hereâs me right now:
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But you didnât include an Amazon affiliate link. I donât understand!
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Well, itâs not like I didnât warn you. 
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Yeah, but what you didnât know is that I lost one of those screens recently. 
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Iâm in it for the love.
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Why not both?
(left and right)
[shows himself out]
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My Sennheiser earbuds are still working after five years and I wouldnât say that I look after them well. There were some problems a few years ago when they used a Chinese factory who cut costs with predictable effects, but I think they have sorted that out now.
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