No offense intended, but it doesn't matter what you get or when you get it. You're obviously one of those people where "good enough is good enough"; you think your BOSE are great, so you're used to mediocre sound already & as such, Beats is perfect for you as well.
The sad part about this is that nothing you say matches up with the industry. i.e. Bose and Beats aren't exactly loosing money. I would agree, but I've tried them out and they aren't bad.
I'll admit, even as a broadcast professional, I am no audiophile. I can only tell a minute different between certain rather medium grade headphones. For field audio, the industry standard is the Sony MDR-7506. They're everywhere on set for film and broadcast news / ENG. Crisp, clear, audio; comfortable cups.
I see only AKGs in the ProTools post houses I visit, and only Sennheisers in the post-production houses.
The Bose give me the clearest sound, as close to any of the $300 AKGs or $100 Sony's I've used . . . . but overall, they aren't worth the $150+ I paid for them. I have to turn my volume all the way up and the sound is flat. Flat is great for post-production and field work, but not for chilin' listening to personal audio.
I wouldn't mind the added bass, and the Beats sound great. It's either those, or the Sennheiser Urbanites but they aren't out yet.
Now that Beats is owned by Apple, I am leaning more towards them.
All that to say, could you tell me the difference if any between the Sennheiser Urbanites and the Momentums and how they compare to the equally priced Beats?
More than just, "I'll get better sound because they aren't Bose or Beats? Or should I be looking at the stuff that AKG sells, even though most of their line is designed for post production audio monitoring and reference?
Or worse yet, they recommend garbage.
you were at least two posts too late with this...
Please stop making sense. You are angering the trolls and the simple minded..
True, those folks were FAST!
And I agree. If nothing else, folks are bashing Beats because it's the popular thing to do.
When they were on the rise, I had negative feelings toward them because I was teaching at a university, and kids would monitor their final mixes for audio and video production using them, and their audio was almost always too low, because they wouldn't watch the meters and they'd monitor with Beats instead of the WAY CHEAPER Sennheiser HD 380s, 280s, or at the least the HD 419s.
quality.
