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Apple's Over-Ear Headphones May Be Called 'AirPods Studio' and Cost $349

goobot said:
I bet they use WiFi for Apple devices to have higher quality audio.
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Now THAT would be SOMETHING!!!

Bluetooth is useless to musicians. Garbage sound quality and garbage latency force wires or non-Bluetooth radio devices.
 
Aston441 said:
Now THAT would be SOMETHING!!!

Bluetooth is useless to musicians. Garbage sound quality and garbage latency force wires or non-Bluetooth radio devices.
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Or, what they could do is have lightning or USB see on the headphones. And included cable that’s used for both charging, and audio transfer. So you could connect the lightning port into the headphones, then go to the USB seaport on your computer. And use the headphones like that, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how it works.
 
Lounge vibes 05 said:
Literally go read any review of some older beats headphones. Complaints of terrible EQ, over pronunciation of bass, reliability problems.
Then go and read some reviews of AirPods. AirPods are just more important to Apple, they have higher satisfaction numbers, they have better reviews, and most importantly, they’re associated with the Apple brand.
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I never said that beets would go away this summer when the AirPods studio come out. But in the next couple of years, once we get the cheaper AirPods, the sporty AirPods, the regular AirPods, the AirPods Pro, and the AirPods studio, that is when the beats brand will be replaced.
At the moment, AirPods serves only some people, where as beats has several different headphones for several different people. Eventually when airpods get to that place, beats will go away, because it will no longer serve a purpose.
There is already some overlap between some beats headphones and AirPods.
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Which is what I said as well. That I couldn't see Beats being abandoned overnight. Apple won't want to lose that audience that already purchased Beats, and it used Beats to draw them into the Apple ecosystem. Beats still has the appeal to the most desired consumer base, and Apple will have to begin a marketing campaign moving over the likes of Beats loyalists to Apple's more conservative looking products.

The appeal besides the sound to many has been the look as well. People are still annoyed that they can only get white Airpods.
 
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I imagine they’ll out perform professional reference grade headphones that cost ten times as much! ;)
 
terminator-jq said:
My question is latency... Calling these “Studio” and charging $350 for them is good and fine but can these actually be used for studio purposes. Has apple found some way through Bluetooth or other means to lower latency so people can use Garage band or Logic without plugging in?

If they have, I’ll be buying these for sure.
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Pretty sure these are not meant to be studio reference headphones. Studio reference headphones are pretty flat
 
Honestly rarely see people wear over the ear anymore. Been surprised at how many people have moved onto the Airpods Pro. I love mine and still keep my BOSE QC20s but only because I need something to plug into in flight entertainment systems.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
First of all, last year Apple made more money from AirPods than they did from beats. And if they diversify the lineup, they’ll make even more money. Apple doesn’t need any street CRED, they already know people are going to buy their products.
The Apple logo is way more recognizable than the beats logo.
In 2015, beats music became Apple Music. 2016, Apple introduced AirPods to dip their toe into the waters of premium headphones. And now that the lineup is being diversified, there’s absolutely no reason to keep beets around. Beats doesn’t have a great reputation, so the second that AirPods fulfill every market that the beats currently do, beats will be discontinued.
There’s no reason to have a BeatsX, then an AirPods X. Then a beats pro, and an AirPods Pro. And a beats studio, and AirPods studio.
Once they have AirPods at every price point, beats will go away.
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No they won't it would be senseless to lose customers that will only buy beats. It doesn't matter which one sells more. It's a branding thing. I bet a fair share of people that buy Beats doesn't know Apple makes them. No way Apple turns down Beats customers for no apparent reason. The street crew thing was a joke that seems to have gone over your head yo.
 
The sweet spot price for these would be close to the XM3s, I wonder how they would perform next to them.
 
If these are as good as the QC 35 IIs, they would make sense, but otherwise not. Who knows, maybe they'll be $999 'Pro' headphones to go with your Pro Stand.
 
ryanwarsaw said:
No they won't it would be senseless to lose customers that will only buy beats. It doesn't matter which one sells more. It's a branding thing. I bet a fair share of people that buy Beats doesn't know Apple makes them. No way Apple turns down Beats customers for no apparent reason. The street crew thing was a joke that seems to have gone over your head yo.
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Apple does a lot of things that people say will alienate their customers. But they’re still the most valuable company in the world.
They discontinued their server machine, they discontinued the 17 inch MacBook Pro, they refuse to make a consumer tower, they discontinued their routers, they’ve done a lot of stuff that would alienate some people. Discontinuing beats is one of those things that’s going to happen, and apples not gonna care about who they lose.
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Like I said, the AirPods brand at this very moment towers over the beats brand.
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Apple boughtBeats for $3 billion. Just last year, AirPods made them between 12 and $14 billion.
and that was just with one or two models of AirPods. Imagine when there’s five different versions of AirPods at five different price points. Discontinuing beats is going to lose them barely anything
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And for those who think that it’s isolating non-Apple customers, this is already started. Most beats headphones charge via lightning, most have hey Siri integration, and most already automatically pair to the iPhone with H1 and W1 processors. Literally the only thing that’s changing is the logo.
 
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AustinIllini said:
These will likely be my one Apple purchase this year.
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Well because Apple couldn’t get their **** together with the new MiniLED IPad, yes
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ilikewhey said:
sheesh that better come with a user or apple serviceable battery. 350 for a perishable pair of headphones like the regular airpods is too much imo.
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They will be lightning chargable I bet
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
Apple does a lot of things that people say will alienate their customers. But they’re still the most valuable company in the world.
They discontinued their server machine, they discontinued the 17 inch MacBook Pro, they refuse to make a consumer tower, they discontinued their routers, they’ve done a lot of stuff that would alienate some people. Discontinuing beats is one of those things that’s going to happen, and apples not gonna care about who they lose.
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Like I said, the AirPods brand at this very moment towers over the beats brand.
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Apple boughtBeats for $3 billion. Just last year, AirPods made them between 12 and $14 billion.
and that was just with one or two models of AirPods. Imagine when there’s five different versions of AirPods at five different price points. Discontinuing beats is going to lose them barely anything
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And for those who think that it’s isolating non-Apple customers, this is already started. Most beats headphones charge via lightning, most have hey Siri integration, and most already automatically pair to the iPhone with H1 and W1 processors. Literally the only thing that’s changing is the logo.
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You are wrong that's my final answer only time will tell. We can revisit this later.
 
I hope they improve the quality over the Beats Studio headphones. I had minimal usage with mine and after about two years the coating on the foam earcups started to crack and deteriorate. It got so bad that after each time I wore them I’d have a bunch of little black pieces stuck to my ear and face.
 
i'm curious to see what this is going to be. given apple's gift at making people excited about things that are generally very plain(e.g. apple card) these may be a huge hit.
 
Nick A said:
Looking to be a Bose 700 / Sony WH-1000XM3 competitor. Assuming it's going to have the Apple touch of beauty and simplicity. Which is good, there's a strong market here for commuters and frequent travelers. Hoping the sound quality is a step-up from the AirPods Pro.

Also like I stated in the previous post, with Apple's audio engineers and their recent fantastic work (HomePod, 16" Pro speakers) I'd like to see them take a shot at real high-end headphones, but that probably won't happen.
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I'll switch over to these if they can keep the connection straight over bluetooth, my 700's dance around from one device to another. During scheduled calls I shut off bluetooth on all my devices except the one handling the conference call.
 
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