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Hi,
 
I was wondering if anyone could let me know if these Shure SE215s are fakes? I bought them from a UK seller on eBay and he is selling them BIN for £55.
 
Here's a picture of the box (had to use hyperlinks as I am a newbie):
http://i.imgur.com/8IrVptR.jpg​
And the bottom of it:
http://i.imgur.com/vSy6FRM.jpg
Also, when I removed them from the packaging one of the casings split, and has a bit of a rough feel to the edge. Here's some pictures of the insides:
http://i.imgur.com/J5tXIG5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vOEtl8Q.jpg
 
I decided to give them a listen, they seem to be muddy sounding without much clarity and lacking in the mids with quite sharp highs. This all seems to point to them being fake and I did a search on this topic and didn't find anything conclusive.
 
Let me know what you think and thanks for any help. 

 

 

[Zankes]

I have never seen the case splitting honestly.

 

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The more I think about it, I think they are probably fake.
Going to forward this info to Shure, will post here if they reply.

 

[VonMillerFan]

 
 
I decided to give them a listen, they seem to be muddy sounding without much clarity and lacking in the mids with quite sharp highs. This all seems to point to them being fake and I did a search on this topic and didn't find anything conclusive.
 
Let me know what you think and thanks for any help. 

 

 
If you look at the FR graph from innerfidelity, I would expect them to sound muddy, lacking in mids with piercing highs.   That's why I passed on them. 
 
http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/ShureSE215.pdf

 

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Got a reply back from Shure UK and they are fake (couldn't find the serial number in the database).
 
For reference the seller was super-sonic-store-uk, please avoid!