We spend so much time fussing over our portable audio players, choosing the one with the best quality, adjusting the graphic equaliser, encoding our music at higher bitrates, yet it's all for naught if you're using dodgy headphones.

The fact of the matter is, the phones that come bundled with your average portable audio player are only fair at best. If you want a better audio experience, then you need to invest in something more refined, such as the V-MODA Bass Fréq modaphones.

Bass has always been an issue with small in-ear headphones, but V-MODA claims to have sorted all this out with the Bass Fréq. They use a special system appropriately called BLISS (Bass Level Isolating Soft Silicon) to eliminate noise leakage and deliver crisp, boomy bass that you can actually feel.

They also come in a range of equally loud colours.