Definitely true. I tested all of them.I'd rather not buy Bose anything - horrible sound signature. Yes - even Beats is better - and that's probably the first time I've ever said that.
Definitely true. I tested all of them.I'd rather not buy Bose anything - horrible sound signature. Yes - even Beats is better - and that's probably the first time I've ever said that.
of course Beats is still a separate company..Apple just bought it, doesn't mean Apple designs and makes Beats..that's why they are called Beats not Apple..Seems like Beats hardware is still a separate company. I wonder how involved Apple hardware engineers are in these products?
Yeah no, Lightning won't happen. These aren't iOS-device exclusives and must work with Android/Windows Phone too. But yeah, Micro-USB is just horrible.
I wanted to say the exact same thing (happy QC35 owner) but these cans can realy be a good Beats product. Waiting for the reviews, might give them a try.Don't bother with these. Get the Bose QuietComfort 35 instead.
I'd rather not buy Bose anything - horrible sound signature. Yes - even Beats is better - and that's probably the first time I've ever said that.
Exactly. I can't see Apple including micro-USB in any product released in 2017. The Beats designers must be working somewhat independently.Seems like Beats hardware is still a separate company. I wonder how involved Apple hardware engineers are in these products?
The QC35s are great but how can you say don't bother with these? They've only just been announced so you can't have tried them. I've always thought the 35s would be better if they handled other sounds as well as they handle aircraft noise which they're particularly well tuned to eliminate.Don't bother with these. Get the Bose QuietComfort 35 instead.
Low IQ but they have lots of opinions!I just love how people here bash things they’ve never even tried.
So now you need a separate micro usb charger along with your lightning cord? Iphone has no headphone jack but iPad and MacBooks do? WTH is going on Apple?
Oh these look like some great new headphones I'd consider buying. If they weren't Micro-*****-USB.
Are you kidding me Apple? Why the hell did you acquire beats if you are going to continue using legacy ports. Fckin insane.
SBC is a codec. AAC too. AptX another one. Much more efficient.Might it be because Apple support Bluetooth AAC? That's 256kbps AAC, the exact same quality as Apple Music offers on "High"? APT-X is only 356 kbps so it's hardly any better and it has a major drawback in the fact that you have to re-encode all the audio as none of your audio on iOS, Android or anywhere else really is encoded using SBC which is the codec APTX uses. So if Apple had used APTX the audio would be encoded lossy 256kbps AAC, then re-encoded/transcoded into lossy SBC before playback. Re-encoding/transcoding from one lossy encode to another will almost always reduce the quality even further, even when going to a higher bitrate. It will NEVER be able to improve the quality as you can't take a lossy format and add back information that has already been lost during the first encoding.
So there is basically no way that APTX could improve the audio quality for Apple. For Android it makes more sense as Google has no guidelines for what codecs is being used in their apps, so some apps features MP3 (LAME), other OGG Vorbis, some Opus, some AAC, other FLAC etc... When you have no control the best thing is to simply relay on whatever gives you the highest bandwidth and APTX has an edge with its 356kbps vs 256kbps for AAC.
But for Apple, especially with iOS where 99% of all audio is encoded using AAC as that's what Apple guides all developers to use in apps and is what pretty much every music streaming services uses on iOS it doesn't make any sense to use APTX (SBC) over AAC.
I have the Beats Headsets. After an hour or so wearing them they start bothering my ears (too much pressure on them). Does anyone else have this issue?
I'm surprised it still uses micro-usb to charge.
Thought they'd go with lightning.
I'd rather not buy Bose anything - horrible sound signature. Yes - even Beats is better - and that's probably the first time I've ever said that.
Agreed. I would like to get a new pair of wireless over the ear, but I refuse to get another cable to charge. I was hoping these would have lightning or USB-C. I will not be buying them with micro-usb.The whole reason that I have given Beats the advantage is the convenience of the lightning port to charge. That's quite disappointing.