I've been listening to these for a few days now. Yes, they are better than I expected. Yes, they will probably satisfy a basshead's sinful urges without breaking a sweat. However, they are lacking soooo badly in detail. I just switched to them from the similarly-priced Soundmagic PL50 and I seriously feel like I lost a part of the music. Sure, the bass, mids, and treble are all there and there is even some amount of clarity to the latter two, but IMO it's not a worthy tradeoff. They are also very harsh at the top end. The guitar intro in Authority Zero's One More Minute (yes, not the best mastering ever) is just unbearable with these. It makes me want to cry a little.
Whoever said that they are similar to the Skullcandy Ink'd had it spot-on. I actually have always liked the Ink'd, mainly because they cost $10 and for that I can ignore the atrocious build quality and flat sound for the decent bass impact and relative clarity and balance of mids and highs. However, I cannot ignore lack of depth in an earphone with an MSRP of $50. Listening to a live recording of Rodrigo y Gabriela's Paris I was absolutely amazed by how one-dimensional the recording sounded.
Also, on the note of comfort, at least for me, the bulges in the housing are too close to the nozzle and I start to feel pressure after a while. They're not uncomfortable, but personally I'll take a straght-barrel IEM over these any day.
So really, while these are better than I expected, they are just not on-level with much of the (admittedly lesser-known) competition. And while I do like the bass and agree that these are probably the best thing a 13-year old with a bunch of 128kbps mp3s on the latest-gen ipod has ever heard, I don't know what possessed headroom to put these on the list, especially so close to Maximo's stellar Im-590 IEMs (which are actually in the same price category as the Titans but oh-so-much better).