I have tried the post monster Beats. Not impressed.
I was referring to the Solo2 as per this thread - And I would not judge them until I listen to them.
you can't be listening to them as they are not out yet - Pre-order
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Beats Tones Down the Bass With its New Solo2 Headphones
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I have tried the post monster Beats. Not impressed.
I was referring to the Solo2 as per this thread - And I would not judge them until I listen to them.
you can't be listening to them as they are not out yet - Pre-order
I havent tried those, Ill admit, but I should also point out that I only tried Beats when I was looking at a multitude of headphone options. Personally Id never buy them, the genres the work for are far too limited. I just wanted to point out that they work just fine for some people, and if you spend all of your time listening to hip hop, I dont think Ive heard a better set of cans for it.
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Yeah, those equalizer settings usually make things worse. None of them give me the settings I would choose for those genres. To my ears, anyways.
Again, I never said I was listening to the solo2's. The new studios would sound better anyways. To each their own, I guess.
Yeah I know but Its called taking a great design and putting behind it great strategic marketing.
You may not know this but if you signed a record deal with Interscope Records you also signed a promoting agreement with beats, meaning all artist on the label must promote the beats product. You make a video you must include in that video beats headphones, do a photo shoot beats headphones will be somewhere visible in your pictures. If your signed artists are on the top 40 billboard charts you have some serious exposure thus making your headphone the pop culture must have thing. Jimmy I. is a very smart business man. This is the way billion dollar companies move.
(not @ you dpfenninger) Its simply comedy to read the various reactions from a bunch of ignorant side-line consumer-pedestrians complain about something they know absolutely nothing about. Take a business class, read some books, something...People here look dumb as door nobs when they accuse two multi billion dollar companies as making a bad move before the ink is even dry on the deal.
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Monster beats are absolutely horrid, all show and no go (it has to be their business model) Its like they do this on purpose, I mean look across their whole product line including their cables and eveything.
Post monter the sound is much better from beats.
My comment wasnt directed at any one race, it was directed at everybody who fits what I said. Mostly the hip-hop or r&b crowd, regardless of race.
I like apt-x...but thanks for your opinion...
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Hey, you don't seem to realize the headphone police have declared the issue settled. If you like the sound of Beats (either the new or the old) or the look or style, you don't know anything about sound or style (and it appears those attributes are mutually exclusive) so shut up...The "experts" have spoken...deal with it!!!!
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I like apt-x...but thanks for your opinion...
Just don't get your hopes up of Apple supporting a mediocre codec to fly between their devices and cheapo stuff that doesn't support AAC.
Again, thanks for looking out for me...I'll be more careful what I hope for.
IIRC, Beats wireless support AAC
"Beats Wireless headphones support SBC, AAC, Apt-X Bluetooth Codecs."
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Swing and a miss
Maybe I posted it too early. I can see the tide turning already. By the middle of next week, my post may be correct.
Maybe I posted it too early. I can see the tide turning already. By the middle of next week, my post may be correct.
I think it's 50/50.
I prefer in ear also.I dislike the sound quality of beats plus people look like they're walking around with DJ headphones on. The other day I was on the subway next to a guy with those Beats things on and could hear clearly all of his music,really quite annoying and rude.
The blues root to rock music is black music.
Motown and Detroit Techno are black music. (Eminem's "nobody listens to techno" dig at Moby was so ironic it's like he wanted RAP to be an acronym for Retard Attempting Poetry).
Chicago House is black music.
New York Garage (or as anyone who knows that 2step UK stuff just hijacked the genre name calls it, Garage) is black music.
Jazz is black music.
Rap is black music.
Mix any number of those genres together and it's simply a combination of black music.
YOU'RE racist for thinking people reject a product because ethnicity is an issue FOR YOU.
Anyone determined to reject beats on racial grounds wouldn't really have a lot to listen to on whatever products they do buy if they were that determined to stick to their bigoted guns
Looks like you have found yourself some. Enjoy! You're welcome!Again, thanks for looking out for me...I'll be more careful what I hope for.
IIRC, Beats wireless support AAC
"Beats Wireless headphones support SBC, AAC, Apt-X Bluetooth Codecs."
Just picked up a pair of Sennheiser MM500-X to add to my collection...a great addition to the family...
Wow, you're just hell bent about this, aren't you? Claiming anyone that calls Dre a thug, which is exactly what he is somehow makes you racist. Like getting mad for calling a Chevy a car or a dishwasher a kitchen appliance. Dre could be the whitest guy on the planet and he's still just a gangsta thug. Just please stop it.
And Beats headphones are terrible. Those buying them don't care about sound quality they just wanna be "cool" like the minions in the music videos.
According to the review that started this discussion they have become slightly less terrible. Before you heard nothing but 'bass' (whatever that might be) but now you can hear other parts of the music as well:
It doesn't convey the impression these things have some kind of coherent 'sound' (and the best even have no discernible 'sound' at all).
I like how you avoided my earlier post about you calling Dre a "thug"... I'll just post it again - no edit:
The comments about Dres thuggery aren't ignorant. They're fact. Just like the fact that the dood has songs that advocate murdering police officers and everything else. You think these angry rappers are writing about feely good love stories? Talk about ignorant.....
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A quick story about a recent Customer Service experience:
About 3 years ago I bought my Mom (whose hearing isn't that great anymore) a pair of Sennheiser HD428 headphones for her tv watching as she was having some problems hearing the rather smallish speakers on her Vizio tv in her bedroom. The HD428's retailed at the time for about $100.00. They have a long thin cable (not much thicker than the one on the standard iPhone EarPods), are single ear-corded which worked well for her (light and easy to maneuver, no tangles) and she loved that the HD428's sound great, and are very light and comfortable (she could wear them for hours without ear fatigue)
Having worked in commercial radio all around the world, and the recording industry for nearly 30 years using their products both at work (where I was required to wear headphones sometimes for 8 to 10 hours straight) and at home, I came to greatly appreciate the quality of Sennheiser Professional Audio Design Products and knew much of the same build quality and technology carried over to their consumer division...I felt confident the Sennheiser's would work out well for her.
A few weeks ago my Mom told me that the sound was only coming out of one ear. I took a look and sure enough the wired connection out of the left ear pad was shorting (again, they are single wire phones). I called Sennheiser CS and even though the headphones are well out of the generous two year warranty, they are sending a replacement pair to her for free without me even sending the old ones back, no questions asked, no proof of purchase no emailing and printing RMA labels. (It would have been very easy for them to just tell me the headphones were well out of warranty and I'd have to pay to ship them and have them repaired, that is what most companies would do today and honestly, it was what I expected to hear). Now THAT is standing behind your product with outstanding customer service.
Congratulations to Sennheiser for going above and beyond the standard CS effort I unfortunately so often experience today, especially when a product is out of warranty. It is no wonder this company has the stellar reputation it has...Great products and outstanding customer service...well earned! I HIGHLY recommend Sennheiser to anyone looking for quality headphones for any usage as both their professional series and consumer line products and service are about as good as it.
About 3 years ago I bought my Mom (whose hearing isn't that great anymore) a pair of Sennheiser HD428 headphones for her tv watching as she was having some problems hearing the rather smallish speakers on her Vizio tv in her bedroom. The HD428's retailed at the time for about $100.00. They have a long thin cable (not much thicker than the one on the standard iPhone EarPods), are single ear-corded which worked well for her (light and easy to maneuver, no tangles) and she loved that the HD428's sound great, and are very light and comfortable (she could wear them for hours without ear fatigue)
Having worked in commercial radio all around the world, and the recording industry for nearly 30 years using their products both at work (where I was required to wear headphones sometimes for 8 to 10 hours straight) and at home, I came to greatly appreciate the quality of Sennheiser Professional Audio Design Products and knew much of the same build quality and technology carried over to their consumer division...I felt confident the Sennheiser's would work out well for her.
A few weeks ago my Mom told me that the sound was only coming out of one ear. I took a look and sure enough the wired connection out of the left ear pad was shorting (again, they are single wire phones). I called Sennheiser CS and even though the headphones are well out of the generous two year warranty, they are sending a replacement pair to her for free without me even sending the old ones back, no questions asked, no proof of purchase no emailing and printing RMA labels. (It would have been very easy for them to just tell me the headphones were well out of warranty and I'd have to pay to ship them and have them repaired, that is what most companies would do today and honestly, it was what I expected to hear). Now THAT is standing behind your product with outstanding customer service.
Congratulations to Sennheiser for going above and beyond the standard CS effort I unfortunately so often experience today, especially when a product is out of warranty. It is no wonder this company has the stellar reputation it has...Great products and outstanding customer service...well earned! I HIGHLY recommend Sennheiser to anyone looking for quality headphones for any usage as both their professional series and consumer line products and service are about as good as it.
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And there you have it. It's 80% to do with the headphones.
Nope stil marketing and product position. not actual headphones. The music part is valued at that as they only have a small amount of subscribers. But fair play