They make really bad products. It's just that simple.
Not frustrated much at all. Just pointing out an inferior product and taking a stand against the propaganda machine promoting this hype.
Rappers don't even make quality music. Why should we trust them to make good products ?
Sorry "Dr." Dre ....But you didn't even pass MIDDLE SCHOOL , much less high school or college. Why exactly would I trust you to produce anything of quality ? ? ?
I would even go as far to say that the apple EARPODS sound better than the beats headphones they are so bad.
I don't like subscription services, period. I don't need another service for which I pay a monthly fee whether I use it or not.
That is why I like the original itunes models. You like a song, and you buy it, No further obligations.
You're poor.
Poor people buy Sennheiser.
People with strong taste and wealth listen to true audiophile quality: Dennon D7000 w/ DAC & FLAC audio.
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Poor? I own the HD800, and if you check the price $1500 and I also own the Beyerdynamic T1s. And also an AMP and DAC worth $1000. You sir know jack about head-fi.
You're a prime example of how effective marketing is. Any equivalent priced Sennheiser headphones would DESTROY bose.
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No. You are wrong. You were born wrong. Lived wrong. And I am trying to save you from dying wrong!
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I'm a huge audiophile. I owned every "good" headphone on the planet.
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If you want audiophile quality and portability, I suggest you get what I have:
Denon D7000
NuForce Icon iDo DAC
FLAC Player app
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You're poor.
Poor people buy Sennheiser.
People with strong taste and wealth listen to true audiophile quality: Dennon D7000 w/ DAC & FLAC
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One thing I'd like to add is that Beats has the best build quality you'll find in any cheap headphones (under $500).
Monster did a fantastic job with that. It compares to the build quality of my Denon D7000s which cost me $1K.
The claim of "huge audiophile" and being pro-bose are not compatible!
I'd normally not bother to respond, bu your obnoxious 'born wrong, live wrong' to fellow poster indicate you yourself are in need of some education.
Bose has partly hung on to some of there former value in the noise reduction technology presently used in cans for flying businessmen - I will give you that. But otherwise, bose is a over hyped (but super well marketed, they got you hook line and sinker after all) bottom feeder in the audio business.
I thought this thread was about a subscription music service, not who's headphones are the best according to audiophiles. :confused
I use Spotify every day. Love it. Not sure what would make an Apple subscription service better other than having a larger library of music? But if an artist doesn't allow their music to be streamed via Spotify would they allow it wit Apple?
Jesus Christ, where do I even begin?
It doesn't ****ing matter if Dre passed middle school or not because he is an extremely successful businessman and rapper, he accomplished more than you probably ever will. And if he wants to call himself Dr.Dre, so what? This isn't a topic about artist names.
You're also stating that rappers don't even make quality music... That's a little bit childish, don't you think?
I even wonder if you ever tried Beats headphones, they are not that inferior to whatever headphones you get for the same price, but I guess it's easy to bash on something you don't even know, because... you're bored?
Dre, Jay-Z and 50 Cent are far from "wannabes", you've gotta be kidding. Not terribly familiar with all of Birdman's stuff so no comment. I'm no fan of Fifty but every one of those guys have turned out highly successful quality hits and Dre, Jay-Z and Eminem are legendary rappers and are all over age 40. Jay-Z and Eminem still turn out hits and even if neither of them turned out another hit, they've already been highly established. Sadly, every one of these guys highly promote Dre's awful Beats headphones.Dr Dre, Birdman, Jay-Z, 50 cent
Yep and when their time passes and their hits begin to drop you'll challenge it when some other kid posts saying that these guys are wannabe rappers.Wiz and Mac are on their way to the top.
The QC 15's there actually the first pair of headphones I bought and after one week I returned them. They do in fact have great sound but there's 2 issues with them. They are marketed mostly for the noise canceling and it's active, not passive. BIG OOPS, at least for me and several others that posted blogs about them. The active noise canceling puts a lot of pressure on the ear drum and I kept getting daily headaches each time I wore them. They worked excellent shunning out noise, probably the best on the market but it comes with the price of discomfort.If you want the best quality go with Bose.
Most comfortable.
Best noise canellation (noticable).
Very good balance between bass and treble.
I went through the most expensive Beats and Sennheisers. Bose still has the best all around ear headphones.
No argument here.Beats has more bass than treble (duh)
Maybe Apple finally has plans for Lala...
You just earned 10 internets!
Seriously: You must be one of those "audiophiles" who thinks more $ = better sound quality...
A few observations:
Flac files are in no way better then accurately ripped 256 kbps mp3s or mp4s. Tried and true with several ABX blind tests. Mind you this this scientifical sound, so don't bother to even argue this and please don't answer with something like: "LPs sound better then CDs..." (they might sound warmer, but they are undisputedly inferior in every way).
Bose has some incredible bad built quality. I had a speaker system from them built into my Mercedes and I always had problems. I also had one power connector on one of their iPod sound stations break after just half a year of use. Two products, both expensive, both failing...I'm not buying Bose again.
Same goes for Beats...just look at the (unbiased) bad reviews on Amazon or the like. They are all horror stories on how quickly they break.
Calling people poor is pretty aggressive. And seriously...It just sounds like you are one or those (mentally) poor persons who really believes in snake oil when it comes to sounds quality. I suggest you stop writing anything about sound quality because you are starting to look pretty clueless.
I for one was once like you. For example I bought myself a Hifiman portable audio player believing it is just soooooo much better (considering all the reviews from headfi.org). Spend around 1100$ for it with shipping and extras. At first I thought it is just soo much better, but it really it just placebo. After seeing some of the RMA curves and reading the poor and stupid apologies being made and actually having the people who conducted the scientific RMA test being banned from the head-fi forum, I concluded myself, that those "audiophiles" over at head-fi live in their own reality...not all of them, but you better do take their advice with a huge grain of salt! Now I'm rocking my JH 16 Pro through a superb Cowon Player.
That being said unfortunately the same people who fall for the Beats advertisement also fall for the Apple advertisement. Few people actually really need an i7 over an i5. People who claim games are running better on an i7 then on an i5 are wrong. People who think paying 250$ for a 128GB SSD is fine are wrong. People who think they need to completely max out their Mac are wrong. Seriously most people here either a) don't think about their need when they purchase Apple product or/and b) just need to compensate for smaller things with spending big time on a life-style product (e.g. Apple, Beats, Bose, ...). By all means go ahead...everybody can do what they want with their money, but don't pretend you are in someway superior to people who don't spent a ridiculous amount of money on such product. I think before I purchase stuff.
Don't bother with him
Actually we are just trying to make a point: why should a guy who runs a company making such crappy overrated products give advice to Apple?
I don't want to come of as a racist, but black music has been overhyped. It's the reason I don't watch music television anymore, nor do I listen to radio anymore. I don't need another no name black artist singing "yeah...yeah...yeah...i got all the money in the world...women...cars...boobs" to a synthesized beat all being pushed by this weird music industry of late. And no: the statement about quality music is not childish. Ever heard something about loudness wars? Some of those CDs being produced are actually unlistenable, because they are just sooooo wrongly mastered (moar bass and moar loud!...) - it just sounds like someone is throwing up: and again this is not something subjectively that is something very objectively provable!
Dre, Jay-Z and 50 Cent are far from "wannabes", you've gotta be kidding. Not terribly familiar with all of Birdman's stuff so no comment. I'm no fan of Fifty but every one of those guys have turned out highly successful quality hits and Dre, Jay-Z and Eminem are legendary rappers and are all over age 40. Jay-Z and Eminem still turn out hits and even if neither of them turned out another hit, they've already been highly established. Sadly, every one of these guys highly promote Dre's awful Beats headphones.
Yep and when their time passes and their hits begin to drop you'll challenge it when some other kid posts saying that these guys are wannabe rappers.
The QC 15's there actually the first pair of headphones I bought and after one week I returned them. They do in fact have great sound but there's 2 issues with them. They are marketed mostly for the noise canceling and it's active, not passive. BIG OOPS, at least for me and several others that posted blogs about them. The active noise canceling puts a lot of pressure on the ear drum and I kept getting daily headaches each time I wore them. They worked excellent shunning out noise, probably the best on the market but it comes with the price of discomfort.
Second OOPS is these headphones are best suited for classical, jazz and other forms of soft music. There's no base response and when I tried to listen to anything with a beat to it the base response clipped very badly.
Took them back to the Apple store and tried out the Bowers and Wilkins P5's. Best in class!! Very effective passive noise canceling (if not a rivaling of the Bose). All metal headband and 100% sheep's leather covered foam pads. No plastic and no vinyl materials. Excellent highs and lows for all genre's of music and absolutely zero clipping no matter how heavy the beat was. The one thing that I loved is that I could turn the volume up on the highest level and there was no distortion. The Bose couldn't pass that test. If you haven't tested the B&W P5's, you should. They are the same price as the Bose and Beats Studio's.
No argument here.
"yeah...yeah...yeah...i got all the money in the world...women...cars...boobs"
To Jimmy and Doug.
Remember in 1999 when you signed my band because we were the biggest thing online?
Remember when you asked me what the future of the music business would be and I said 99 cent singles?
Remember how you both told me that (as well as subscription) services would never happen in your lifetime?
Glad to see you woke up during your lifetime.
It's too late now to implement your ideas in a way that would be as profitable as they would have been a decade ago.
Good Luck!
Ron
Dr. Dre smoked more weed, banged more girls, owns more cars, and has more money than you'll ever have.
Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012:
1. Dr Dre $110 Million
2. Roger Waters $88 Million
3. Elton John $80 Million
4. U2 $78 Million
5. Take That $69 Million
6. Bon Jovi $60 Million
7. Britney Spears $58 Million
8. Paul McCartney $57 Million (tie)
9. Taylor Swift $57 Million (tie)
10. Justin Bieber $55 Million (tie)
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/the-25-richest-musicians-of-2012/72252/
Sounds like a winner. And you probably have a fancy degree, clock punching 9-5.
Hahah!
Oh, and he's a big dude, so I bet he can kick your ass too.
You totally lost that argument.
So far they have only lala-ed me to sleep with their offerings in that area.
When money isn't your limiting factor you get the best on the planet. This is law.
If you're so horny about audio quality, just do what my friend did and spend $4K to have your ears molded, custom cans made, and work with an engineer to choose the number of drivers/tweeters and materials to build your headphones. And that didn't even include a box. SHURE offers this service. They will make you custom headphones for a fat price tag.
I stand firm in my statement that the Bose QC15 are better than its $350 Beats or Sennheiser counterparts. Good balance (treble & bass) and it's the noise cancellation that does the trick.
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Also what the hell do you call dubstep then?
That's true, and I understand why you'd say that. The hate is coming from people who like to listen to music with their headphones and the reason that hate is so accepted is because headphones are generally thought of as devices that we listen to music on and not fashion statements, jeans on the other hand are mostly fashion statements although they do cover your legs. There are headphones that are objectively better than Beats for half the price, less than half the price. I'm not saying that they should get hate, but when I see people wearing them who think that they are getting high quality audio and think that they are really music people I assume these people are just buying into the latest thing. If someone told me "I bought them for the looks" I wouldn't assume anything about their intelligence but I wouldn't admire them for placing looks over quality but then I'm an audiophile so... I'm kind of annoying tooSo much hate on beats....
I got a pair of white solo hd's for my birthday and they are good, comfortable, and lightweight. I also have some audio technicas I use for logic but those are monitors and sound better than the beats....but not by much. I think they get a lot of hate because of their price but it's like paying for designer jeans, you're paying for the name on the jeans!!
Dr. Dre smoked more weed, banged more girls, owns more cars, and has more money than you'll ever have.
Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012:
1. Dr Dre $110 Million
2. Roger Waters $88 Million
3. Elton John $80 Million
4. U2 $78 Million
5. Take That $69 Million
6. Bon Jovi $60 Million
7. Britney Spears $58 Million
8. Paul McCartney $57 Million (tie)
9. Taylor Swift $57 Million (tie)
10. Justin Bieber $55 Million (tie)
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/the-25-richest-musicians-of-2012/72252/
Sounds like a winner. And you probably have a fancy degree, clock punching 9-5.
Hahah!
Oh, and he's a big dude, so I bet he can kick your ass too.
You totally lost that argument.
And incredibly bad headphones that have been marketed brilliantly.
I'm sorry if this hasn't been clear: my JH16 Pro are full custom In-Ear Monitor and are considered to be the best available. What else would I want? With their new combo they are fine tuning them acoustically. Adding some gold or diamonds is not going to make them sound any better...
Oh and please? You really believe more expensive products are necessarily better? You do realize that probably most of what you have at home has a constructions cost of what...5$ made in China? How delusional can one person possibly be? Yes sure I understand you got money and you can spend it all you want. So do I, but I sure won't spent my money foolishly.
I don't want to come of as a racist, but black music has been overhyped. It's the reason I don't watch music television anymore, nor do I listen to radio anymore. I don't need another no name black artist singing "yeah...yeah...yeah...i got all the money in the world...women...cars...boobs" to a synthesized beat all being pushed by this weird music industry of late. And no: the statement about quality music is not childish. Ever heard something about loudness wars? Some of those CDs being produced are actually unlistenable, because they are just sooooo wrongly mastered (moar bass and moar loud!...) - it just sounds like someone is throwing up: and again this is not something subjectively that is something very objectively provable!
Not sure if this is sarcasm...because it sure sound's like it is, since both Bose and Beats are highly overrated and overpriced. People tend to think that more bass = better sound quality. Unfortunately our brain works that way. It's the first thing you notice once you try out a new headphone or loudspeaker. Let me tell you after you have grown accustomed to some "real" premium product (I proudly own custom made In-Ear - Jerry Harvey Audio 16 Pro) there is no going back. You will immediately hear how ****** everything else sounds. And in that respect most Bose products and all of the Beats products just sound the crappiest!
When you're famous your fame is a currency in itself.
Dr Dre may not have invented the "Beats" brand but he put his name on it. And if the product flopped, he flopped.
One cannot exist without the other. It's like Woz and Jobs. Engineering and Marketing.
One thing I'd like to add is that Beats has the best build quality you'll find in any cheap headphones (under $500).