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Little update on my soundmagic headphones. As well as buying the E10s, I thought I'd get the PL-50s, proper balanced armature headphones (well, as proper as you're gonna get for £35 off ebay).
They arrived really quickly, despite coming over from hong kong, much quicker than my E10s and according to the little scratch-off label on the side and the soundmagic website, they are genuine.
The selection of earbuds with the PL50s is good, except that they're all massive. I ended up only really being able to fit the small foam buds in but found that although the sound was really crisp and clarity was great they were really lacking in bass.
I recently splashed out on a set of Comply T100 foam tips and the difference is amazing. The Comply small foam tips are slightly larger than the Soundmagic small foams and give a much better seal (as well as generally being much better in terms of quality of construction). The sound is now absolutely amazing, way better than the E10s - clarity, bass response, volume, everything is spot on.
Also, I noticed during the world cup coverage the BBC guys on location were using the PL50s as IEMs.