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Apple's New Beats Studio Buds+ Likely to Be Announced Tomorrow

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Apple's new Beats Studio Buds+ earbuds that were leaked on Amazon and spotted at Best Buy will likely be formally announced this Wednesday, May 17 at 7 a.m. Pacific Time, according to a teaser tweet from Beats today. The short video in the tweet appears to show the new transparent Studio Buds+ charging case option.

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Beats Studio Buds+ box at Best Buy via Ben Geskin​

Key new features of the Studio Buds+ are expected to include a transparent design option like the Nothing Ear (2) earbuds, up to 36 hours of battery life with the included USB-C charging case, and 3x larger microphones and up to 1.6× as much active noise cancellation as the original Studio Buds that launched in 2021. The earbuds will be priced at $169.95 in the U.S., according to a since-removed Amazon listing.

Beats Studio Buds+ are a sportier alternative to the AirPods Pro, and have a more compact design without "stems" that drop below the ears. The earbuds will also be available in Black and Ivory color options, and have XS, S, M, and L ear tip size options for a wider range of ears, the Amazon listing and leaked photos revealed.

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Beats Studio Buds+ boxes at Best Buy via Ben Geskin​

Studio Buds+ were first discovered in iOS 16.4 beta code last month, and they have also surfaced in FCC filings and other regulatory databases around the world. Apple acquired Beats in 2014 for $3 billion, gaining ownership of both the Beats Electronics headphones line and the Beats Music streaming music service that led to Apple Music.

Rumors suggest new Beats Studio Pro over-ear headphones will also be launching soon, but it's unclear if they will be announced tomorrow.



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I'm curious how they technically compare w/ Beats Fit Pro earbuds. I have a set of those, and while I generally really like them, I'm experiencing the apparently somewhat common issue where the grey rubber "wings" that help snug them in your ear are peeling away from the plastic part of the earbuds (both the left and right sides are doing this).

I've babied them, and kind of expected more longevity from a product I think I paid something like $250 for. I just opened a case w/ AppleCare -- seeing if they'll waive the $29 per incident replacement fee.

These Beats Studio Buds+ lack those rubber "wings" which makes them look appealing to me. But I wouldn't want to trade away the basic feature set and quality of the Beats Fit Pro.
 
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...up to 1.6× as much active noise cancellation as the original Studio Buds that launched in 2021

And 2/3 less active noise cancellation within a couple of years when Apple nerfs the firmware due to patent trolls.
 
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tridley68 said:
I. My opinion these are ugly and I think after a while there will turn a terrible shade of yellow
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The musicians industry likes to use transparent earphones. I don't like the shape of beats particularly but transparent versus colored is OK. Also it's not as bad as all those old Macs that use to turn yellow when the plastic use to be white. :D
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tridley68 said:
I. My opinion these are ugly and I think after a while there will turn a terrible shade of yellow
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The transparent plastic is an aesthetic I never understood. I always thought the plastic Macs and especially that clamshell laptop thing were cheap and hideous, and yet the iMac is widely attributed as having saved the company. The Jobs cult was real.
 
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jon3543 said:
The transparent plastic is an aesthetic I never understood. I always thought the plastic Macs and especially that clamshell laptop thing were cheap and hideous, and yet the iMac is widely attributed as having saved the company. The Jobs cult was real.
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Thats not the case with music industry and earphones look at sweetwater examples. Modern plastics don't yellow. Wearing colored earphones distracts from people's appearances for the most part.
 
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jon3543 said:
The transparent plastic is an aesthetic I never understood. I always thought the plastic Macs and especially that clamshell laptop thing were cheap and hideous, and yet the iMac is widely attributed as having saved the company. The Jobs cult was real.
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If you were alive (or of age) during that time, it was OS X which did the heavy lifting. The design was to simply reinforce the OS and UX were radically different from everything else commercially available to the public. The excellent marketing and comparative substantial differences from the competition drove the point/product home.

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TestedLion said:
If you were alive (or of age) during that time, it was OS X which did the heavy lifting. The design was to simply reinforce the OS and UX were radically different from everything else commercially available to the public. The excellent marketing and comparative substantial differences from the competition drove the point/product home.
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As best I recall, OS X was just the Mac interface on the Nextstep kernel. Microsoft had Windows NT 4 at the time and had beaten OS/2, and OS X didn't have anything on it from an architecture perspective. It was better than Windows 98, but really, most people wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference. As for the UIs, NT4 and Windows 98 had the same UI, and not many people were leaving PCs for Macs due to that. No, it was the iMac's colors and transluscent plastic that had everybody going "Oooooh", and like I said, I didn't get it, and I thought it was in awful taste. Indeed, it was just a fad, but it got Apple the attention Jobs desperately needed at a time when Apple had to go to Microsoft for a $150 million loan to stay in business. Those were the days when computers were going mainstream in a big way due to the Internet achieving critical mass, and besides the colorful iMacs, PC vendors were making even uglier anodized metal tower cases and stuff to try and follow the color trend. It was a strange and ugly time design-wise.
 
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Thats not the case with music industry and earphones look at sweetwater examples. Modern plastics don't yellow. Wearing colored earphones distracts from people's appearances for the most part.
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I think you replied to the wrong post. The yellowing is bad, but even if it doesn't happen, I still don't get the transparent plastic aesthetic. I wasn't commenting on the yellowing concern and didn't say anything about it.
 
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