Love or hate the Beats By Dr Dre Headphones line, it’s hard to deny that they’ve done a good job on the marketing front. But how do they sound? Giz reader Daniel tunes in.
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rs
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:53 AMbest headphones ever!
Gabriel
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 2:56 PMWow you haven’t used an actual good pair of headphones have you..
Great review by the way!
Callum
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 11:31 PM+1000000000
Joel
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:11 PMThat was actually a really good review, well done!
Still don’t like them though lol
SamX
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:17 PMThat was a really really good review! Hire this guy!
Peter
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:35 PMDr DRE (digital rectal exam)
Dave
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:44 PMI bought a pair of these, and unfortunately am disappointed. The bass IMO is too excessive. I will be sticking to my Panasonic Theatre Headphones!
James
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:04 PMI’m an audio producer, and can never see why people spend so much money on headphones. especially ones that are so heavily Eq’d and give a totally unrealistic sound designed for a specific type of music. For me, the very best phones you can buy have a totally flat eq with a good noise cancellation – it’s the recording’s responsibility to sound great, not the headphone’s.
Ozoneocean
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:23 PMBut if your recordings don’t?
I agree with you, but I can understand why people would want to change their listening experience.
Joel
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:26 PMWhen they’re listening to MP3′s they need all the help they can get lol
People spend so much on these because they’re a status symbol.
Every headphone and speaker is Eq’d and the ones closest to having a flat EQ (which I’d imagine is a lot harder to accomplish over an EQ’d speaker) are monitor headphones, and they don’t have the same status symbol.
People that enjoy real audio buy real headphones like you said.
Commander Shepard
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:37 PMGot a set of the the Beats Solo with my new phone, and i agree these are for specific music types, pop, dance, hip hop ect. This isnt a bad thing if you like those styles, otherwise grab the Solo HD’s as are a more true sound with less bass, or check alternatives. As the solos are smaller you also get abit of noise leak moreso than the studios i tested the other day in store.
and to those above talking status symbols, sure some may see them as that but most headphones i see kicking about are grey sienhouser (?) or phillips ect.
51kbee
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 2:40 PMGreat review. Super honest.
Very true, you will look like a douche bag wearing these cans around; or probably even get mugged by a bunch of 14 year old gangstar-wanna-bees who thinks they are the bomb…
Another thing : Just look at David Guetta. Perfect example of a douche bag. No one in the real world who is a DJ would use these- the noise leak would render them useless.
so funny. great marketing though!…
Nicholas
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 4:47 PMExpensive headphones sound around 120 USD
ATH M50′s sound better.
Its more of a fashion accessory, however that said monster do make good headphones (expensive yes, great yes (monster coppers).