Anker Soundbuds Digital IE10

Hey everyone,

I received a set of Anker Soundbuds Digital IE10 to review and here are my thoughts.

• Packaging: The box that the headphones came in were top notch. It actually felt like I was opening the box of a new phone. 
• Cable build: Since Anker is a cable company I was pretty sure that these headphones were going to have a nice strong cable and I was right. The headphones are grey with a good cable length and a Lighting connection. There is a very nice microphone on the left earbud cable that tested very well as I made several phone calls in which everyone reported that I sounded clear with no stuttering. Siri also appeared to have no issues understanding me while I was out about through out my day. 
• Accessories: Inside the box are the following included items. Earbuds, three different sizes of ear wings which are used to help hold the earbuds in place. Three different size earbud tips. One set of deep ear canal ear plug style tips. Warranty card and user manual and a nice little zipper case to hold everything together. 
• Inline Controller: The Soundbuds have a very nice inline controller that controls play, pause, volume, tracks and an interesting preset EQ.  The controller is large, but still looks pretty good. The controls I found to be easy except for the EQ button. I hate the EQ button. I am also not overly fond of the EQ tone presets. There are 3 presets, voice enhanced, Balanced and bass boost. I found that the enhanced bass sounded the best for almost all listening. The enhanced voice actually bothered my ears as it had so much treble.  I listened to everything from Iggy Azalea to Megadeth and just about everything in between. All music sounded best with the bass enhanced setting. I then tried podcasts and even on spoken work I found the bass enhanced setting to be the best. The voice setting is just very harsh to me. I will say that these earbuds are not going to win any audiophile awards in the near future. I did find them to be pretty good overall as long as you used the enhanced bass setting and left the volume up a little. Volume was very weak which meant cranking the earbuds up to hear the music. Calls were a bit better in regards to volume but not a whole lot. Call did sound really good on them though.
• Conclusion: These earbuds come in a great package with a ton of accessories. The build quality so far seems top notch. Appearance is stunning. Volume is pretty weak unless you crank the phone all the way up. Nice microphone, inline controller is a big larger for my taste but it looks good and functions well, minus the EQ button. I do not think I will ever like that button. I just felt that it was awkward and not needed. Build the earbuds with the bass enhancement feature and forget the rest. I found Anker IE10's very easy to wear with no issues of falling out. I did not notice any fatigue while wearing them which I find to be a good thing. I guess in the end. I would consider this set of earbuds against other sets. I did not like the volume or the EQ but the rest was great. 

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