Hi , I am an audiophile and i have experienced many IEM's from a few years. I had nokia WH-205 which had stopped working after 1.5 year,after keeping it in a pocket of a jeans on a travel day, got defected just above the 3.5mm jack plug on the wire( mostly, headphones get defective here) so i had to buy a new in ear headphone. The WH205 had superb bass with balanced sound and range of 20hz-20000hz.I could listen to non stop music for hours without any problems.
I bought soundmagic e10 in february.When i got it,it sounded very harsh and had too low bass. Dont know why do Suman134 liked es18 which has got the same sound quality as the e10.
I thought a burn in must be given so burned it for a week. But the sound is still same after two months now. The bass volume is too low, large amount of midrange and big amount of piercing subrange of 16khz, without/orveryless 8 kilohertz subrange( recessed treble but piercing through ears and harsh ). Can not listen for more than 40 mins at low volume even. Bass is also not considerable(very low volume of 31hz and 62hz subranges)
So my 2000 Rs got wasted in this crap. Dont know why it has been given whathifi award. Such an unequalised headphone by a chinese manufacturer. Its price is four times that of es18 which has similar sound (90% same, actually i realised that after buying).The extra 1400 price tag is for the extra metal part only.There are much other options like ep630. Now there is no way to replace it and get that 2000 back....
THUMBS DOWN for SoundMAGIC !