It did turn out that the first tear-down done by Bolt was accidentally performed on knock-off headphones.
But they were very accurate copies, the tear-towns on the actual real brand-name Beats headphones also had the same weights added.
Last month, Beats by Dre headphones went in for a thorough slagging across the internet, and on this here blog, on the basis of a teardown of the flashy
gizmodo.com
The pieces you reference from the article: "the heavy metal sizer (1), the decorative joiners (2), and the metal covered drivers (3)" — the Sizers are metal because that's a part that wears down often from adjusting the sizing of the fit from each listening session. That's not artificial weight, that's a more durable, better quality material for an easily worn part. Same as the joiners, as that is where the hinge lives and should be just as durable and sturdy as they are the only moving parts in a mostly plastic product. The idea that these parts are there only to "add weight" is a naive matter of opinion that ignores the effects of wear and tear in inferior materials. if the only goal of expensive headphones was to be light that would be one thing, but I expect some quality for costly products and reinforcing their weakest points with metal and not plastic is not a nefarious choice as you seem to be making it.
So how is this debunked? Beats was adding weights to their headphones... which is all I said. I didn't comment on whether Beats knockoffs were also adding the weights.
Because they are not weights, they are parts that happen to be made of stronger material than the rest of the plastic in the headset. The Knockoff used Zinc — which is heavier than steel — but those who hopped on the story to take a dig at Beats didn't want to be wrong so they continued the lie that they added weights when that's just not the truth. For the record, weights have no function other than to add weight, they don't function in any other way. If a weight has a function other than being heavy, it's
a part. That's is the textbook definition. Full Stop.
I didn't say that the headphones were designed by Apple, I just said Apple owns beats. So not wrong there.
No, you didn't, you specifically said: "Let's not forget that Apple
makes Beats,
which ADD WEIGHTS to their headphones." That sentence specifically says Apple makes beats, and beats add weights to their headphones — ergo, Beats, which Apple makes, adds weights which is wrong on both counts. They aren't weights they are parts, and Apple had nothing to do (Designed, manufactured or otherwise) with that headset that is the basis to your opinion. So yes, wrong there as well.
And you're just getting really weird with the third place I'm "wrong." I didn't say anything about whether the new headphones were made with metal or not. Just that they're really heavy, so I was wondering if there were weights inside.
I'm not getting weird, I just understand that words mean something and you cannot change the meaning of something to fit your opinions. If the general issue here is that these Airpods Max are already heavy due to the materials used, so why — when they have never added weights before — would you assume they would add weights to an already heavy product? It's dumbfounding. It's like you have a narrative you want to believe so you assume the "facts" to reinforce what you want to believe is the outcome. Apple as a company does plenty of things wrong, so fabricating one they haven't done is silly. I mentioned the metal construction because you obviously chose to omit them in your reasoning of why it weighs as much as they do. It's extremely relevant in the conversation compared to their competition as very few of them use metal parts and the few that do, start approaching the Max's overall weight.
And yes, I am more concerned with having accurate information out rather than being "right". If I was wrong I'd have no issue concerning that — it's just not the case here and I have backed up my claims with reason, not opinion.