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Beats Studio Pro Debut With Improved Sound Quality, Spatial Audio, USB-C, and More
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Curved headbands that press down on the top of your head are a bad, lazy, design. They need to keep them off the top of your skull so they can be comfortable. Too bad Blue stopped making those headphones with the suspension like a Formula 1 racer. Their biggest problem was the deterioration of the ear cups. It was a bad choice of materials. If they had fixed that, they would have real winners.
And, there are quite a large number of folks listening to music through YouTube music and will continue to do so likely years from now. The floor has been raised significantly, the worst audio today is way better than the worst audio from 20 years ago, one doesn’t need to go on an audiophilic chase just to get sound that’s not distorted or reproduced poorly.
Today: Apple releases ugly headphones that cost $599.
Tomorrow: Those ugly headphones are now a target for theft. Because, they’re still $599.
I used to feel the way you do but the Beats Studio Buds+ work perfectly for me as I find using the automatic pop-ups on my Apple devices a joy and actually find this method more predictable than automatic switching.
Wake me when they offer headphones with Airplay. I love my AirPods Max, but Bluetooth is really flakey. Airplay would let me wear them all over the house, and offer a more stable connection.
$550 for headphones without a swappable battery is absurd. Back in my day son you could buy a pair of headphones at Radio Shack for $40 and they'd last you a decade, hell maybe longer if you took care of them. Manufacturing premium priced headphone and having the battery be the weakest link of so dumb
I want to buy one and use it to listen to the Apple event livestream in September; I'm sure Tim Cook's "good morning!" will sound extra crisp on these headphones. 🎧
I still have my Optimus Pro-35 from the mid 90s and they still sound great.
Having said that, I do like my Solo 3, and with light use, the battery is still fine years later. I just wish Apple sold replacement pads.
So this means the Beats Solo Pros support using audiograms but still no support for the much more expensive Beast Studio Pros??? Apple should allow this feature for all headphones! It’s like glasses for your ears.
It’s a shame Apple bought the patent and killed the app that made it possible to use any old set of headphones with personal audiograms.
It’s a shame Apple bought the patent and killed the app that made it possible to use any old set of headphones with personal audiograms.
Today: Apple releases ugly headphones that cost $599.
Tomorrow: Those ugly headphones are now a target for theft. Because, they’re still $599.
As I said, NYC is the major market as a city for Apple with 7 stores in Manhattan including one that never closes and at least 10 throughout the city. Why would Apple ignore that market and deliberately put their customers in harms way when there is no need to do so?Today: Apple releases ugly headphones that cost $599.
Tomorrow: Those ugly headphones are now a target for theft. Because, they’re still $599.
The point is that the headphones don't look distinctive which makes people a target for theft. I can't understand the mindset of someone who wants to make themselves a target for theft, when they can simply make the headphones look like Beats, Bose, Sony. Care to explain?
Any headphones, even cheapo $12 dollar earbuds from 7-11, make you a target for theft. More than the value of the headphones themselves, the fact is with headphones on you have one of your most important senses completely dulled if not outright blocked. Thieves know this and look for it. If you care about being safe from theft / mugging in a city, then don't wear anything in or on your ears at all.
The most interesting thing for me is the inclusion of a power button, something that Apple has—until this product—been moving away from. It’s the one thing I wish the AirPods Max had.
Related to that is the headphone jack, which is also a pleasant surprise for me. A “regression” of sorts, but a very welcome one.
A curious omission, though, is an H-series chip.
All in all, though, I think people who are interested in an AirPods Max but are hesitant about the price can look into these instead.
I’m hoping that the best of the Beats Studio Pro (a power button, better battery life, USB-C, a 3.5-mm jack) goes into the next generation of the AirPods Max.
Related to that is the headphone jack, which is also a pleasant surprise for me. A “regression” of sorts, but a very welcome one.
A curious omission, though, is an H-series chip.
All in all, though, I think people who are interested in an AirPods Max but are hesitant about the price can look into these instead.
I’m hoping that the best of the Beats Studio Pro (a power button, better battery life, USB-C, a 3.5-mm jack) goes into the next generation of the AirPods Max.
Wonder if you could use a USB-C to Lightning cable to listen wired on your iphone so you don't need the converter? Also, would that actually charge the headphones as well?
I own the Airpods Pro Max as well as the Sony WH-1000XM4 and I honestly prefer the Sony's. They don't have all the bells and whistles that the APM does but I like them better. These are definitely intriguing to me and I'll be going to try them on in store and see how they feel.
I own the Airpods Pro Max as well as the Sony WH-1000XM4 and I honestly prefer the Sony's. They don't have all the bells and whistles that the APM does but I like them better. These are definitely intriguing to me and I'll be going to try them on in store and see how they feel.
And your thinking is that street thieves, who are for the most part, NOT blind, would NOT notice that there’s a decent number of headphones in the public that DON’T have Bose, Beats or Sony logos on them and would go “I suppose Apple just stopped making headphones!!”?
Smart people know how NOT to be targets, they don’t wear them in public. Those that do wear them in public, may eventually LEARN not to wear them in public.
Additionally, legally, name brand products can’t look too much like another product. Which is why, even without the logos it’s easy to tell a Sony from a Beats from a Bose, it’s by design. As a result, any Airpod Max’s that were different enough to NOT be sued would also be different enough to tell from every other set of headphones out there. In the end, the only way they could be less “steal-able” is if they were NOT $599.
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Flabbergasted these don't have an Apple chip since the last ones did.
Next to "price point," "iconic look" has got to be the most overused phrase in MacRumors articles. 😂
"Cushioned headbands," "folding design" and "padded ear cups." Yeah, they definitely have an "iconic look" that sets them apart from the crowded field of plastic headphones! 🤣
Seriously, remove the "b" from the cups of these cans, and you'd be hard-pressed to tell them apart from countless other mass-market headphones.
wow, thanks for USB C, i can transfer data faster to headphones now ?
For AppleTV they would be with Atmos content. That’s my primary use, otherwise my APP2 work great.
highly agree. even the creaky sound it makes when folding should be reason enough to not get this.