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SoundMagic E80C In-Ear Headphones -- REVIEWED!
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May 29, 2025
Looking for some basic in-ear headphones (aka earbuds) that sound good and have a solid build? Of course you are, because you can't have enough of these for travel, your office, school and even at the gym. But do the SoundMagic E80C fit the bill? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks them out and reveals his findings in this review video... Learn more: http://amzn.to/2C4pyUO
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these earbuds look really cool but did
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they sound good let's check it out
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dave taylor here and i'm looking at
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audio gear this time i'm looking at
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these these are the sound magic ii ATC
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and there are noise-isolating in-ear
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headphones now in ear headphones I don't
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know I just don't think of them that way
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I think of them as earbuds but call them
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whatever you want
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they're pretty nicely designed they're
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pretty cool-looking product and they
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have as you can see here in this
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close-up it's an aluminum housing and
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gold-plated connector on the end and all
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this sort of fancy jazz but the question
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is what do they actually sound like
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before we get there let's talk about the
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fact that they have ten millimeter
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neodymium that's tricky word they're
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neodymium drivers so pretty decent sized
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drivers and gives you 15 to 20 mm Hertz
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response so it's a nice broad range for
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your music and an impressive 102
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decibels of sensitivity cable itself is
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three point nine feet long just a bit
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shy of four feet which is nice if you
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want to have your music player not maybe
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sitting within a couple of inches of
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your head obviously that's a benefit and
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pretty easy to work with on these like
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on this Android phone plug it in bring
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up your music player and you're good to
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go now it also has an inline microphone
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and here's where we start to get into
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some problems with this so this little
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controller is a universal controller and
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it's weird the way that it works is very
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strange so when I tried this for example
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with my Macintosh and I press volume up
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it goes Zoop all the way to the end and
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I press volume down and go Zoop all the
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way to zero and with experimentation
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after my hearing came back with the
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experimentation I found out that one
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push means it starts to increase and
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then a second push stops it so you have
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to learn to double push to get these
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sort of controls
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that's clumsy I've never experienced any
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other thing that does that usually you
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push it goes up one increment you push
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it goes up one increment nice and easy
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no drama no complexity certainly the
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first time you use these you might well
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find that this is a it's so loud not
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exactly your great first product
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experience but there it is comes with
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three year tips and three compliant
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memory foam ear tips so as with all of
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these super important to get the right
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size to get it to properly fit your ear
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canal and then you find out that it
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still doesn't sound that great I gotta
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say I've listened to other sound magic
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products and been really impressed and
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these I'm just not that impressed with
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so there's the whole issue with the
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control but when you listen to the music
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there is the full range of music when
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you have the right ear tips but there's
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no presence to it at all there's no
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soundstage there's no depth and it's
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very biased to the high end so it's
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fatiguing to listen to there might be my
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ears might be how I listen to things
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I certainly have listened to hundreds of
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different audio devices at this point
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but my bigger concern is not even the
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sound it's just the issue with the
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control and then you know while we're
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talking about it they really could have
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used better wire I think that this is a
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plastic-coated braided wire and it just
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feels like it's just less expensive than
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you're actually gonna pay and this is a
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perfect example of where a braided
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fabric would have done great and been
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less prone to tangles cuz no one wants
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your coordinate angle so what else can I
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tell you it does on the positive side
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come with a very nice little travel case
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that is quite appealing and I will say
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to be fair my teen daughter auditioned
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these and she thought they sounded
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terrific and she really wants them so
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there you go different years different
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hearing different expectations of music
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before I tell you what the price is I
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would like to ask you to go ahead and
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click on that subscribe button I really
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appreciate that and if this is useful
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and informative thumbs up thank you
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sweet now the only thing left to talk
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about is the actual price these are the
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sound magic e ATC and they are like I
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said the aluminum in-ear headphones will
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use their phrasing and they are $99.99
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at Amazon and I feel like that's a
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little bit high for what you're actually
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getting in terms of build quality in
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terms of functionality with the control
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and in terms of audio quality but your
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view may vary so I would encourage you
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to check it out read other people's
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reviews - so this is Dave Taylor and
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I'll catch you in the next video
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