beats by dre
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- fues0
- ZOOP0
Apple (white) sells $8 phone for $650: waiting lines, oohs & aahs
Dre (black) sells $5 headphones for $300: burn the witch!
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- apple acutally makes great products, dr. dre headphones are just crap.mekk
- ive had 3 different iPhones, the last 2 have been defective. one home button stopped working now my 5's on/off button docent work.fooler
- dosent workfooler
- @mekk: iPhone is vastly more utilitarian, quite obvious, but these are both simply consumer choice issuesZOOP
- apple headphones are amongst the worst in the universe.fadein11
- sorry, what costs $650 again?monospaced
- actually iphone costs $199 to makescarabin
- can't a guy troll in peace? sheesh! :DZOOP
- hehe zoop, I love trolling apple threadsmekk
- autoflavour0
Zoop, except iphones cost around $200 to make.. not $8
- monospaced0
also ugly as fuck
- Yeah cos DT100's were beautifulsem
- I never said anything about thosemonospaced
- I'm implying that looks are not always important when it comes to headphones or audio products.sem
- I own a pair of DT400.. best sounding headphones i own. also great for spill suppressionautoflavour
- ZOOP0
yeah, he made more from those than he did from his entire music career. Shit's crazy
- monospaced0
- < beats guy working on another line of headphonesmonospaced
- section_0140
Those headphones are fucking garbage. AKG, Sony, Sennheiser, and Beyerdynamic are proper headphone brands.
- doesnotexist0
you're delusional if you think this is an isolated product that has a huge markup compared to it's production cost.
that's the reality of everything you buy.
- you're delusional if you think i give anywhere near the amount of a shit as this thread seems to be generatingautoflavour
- i posted a link.. and it seems like some people think i am ass fucking their motherautoflavour
- 20020
Can we talk about Bose?
- 20020
Dude on the right has two phones, taking photos or something.
- he's facetime'ing himselfprophetone
- Recording in 3D!pango
- He's filming The Hobbit in 3Dprophetone
- good answer good answer2002
- sem0
Beats By Dre's are definitely not shit headphones. They are miles better than general consumer headphones that were out before them.
OBVIOUSLY there are better, though they were not in general stores, you had to find pro-audio stores to get some DT100's etc, but Monster were not trying to replace pro audio monitor headphones etc.
If you don't like them, that is your choice. But you can't say they are shit when compared to the crap most products would give with their music devices prior to their release.
I personally think they are great for fun bass heavy use, I wouldn't wear them out in the street, but thats a personal choice. But I wouldn't look down on anyone else who did enjoy them, they are just headphones after all.
- they are FUCKING SHIT compared to 99% of $300 headphones, and that's a fucking factmonospaced
- they have colored sound, it's nowhere near "flat," and they have the audacity to charge that much... it's fuckedmonospaced
- also, you're insane to imply that headphones before Beats were not good.monospaced
- I have headphones that are 20 years old that sound better than the beatsmonospaced
- They aint forcing anyone to buy them? you can live without them you know. Its a choice, if people don't like, don't buysem
- Beat your old headphones don't have the bass of Studio Dre's for a fact. And some people like that.sem
- Agreed: any self-respecting person who enjoys quality sound agrees that Beats suck and won't buy them.monospaced
- Yes, some people like bass that is shit sounding. And my old headphones are still better at that than Beats.monospaced
- And I didn't say ALL headphones before Dre's were shit, I said MOST general consumer headphones like you would get with MP3 players etcsem
- would get with MP3 players etc...sem
- Your "facts" are so fucking bullshit it's not even funny.monospaced
- popcorn.gifZOOP
- why would you buy headphones you wouldn't wear out on the street?scarabin
- Really? please do tell me what high quality headphones you found in general high street chain stores before?sem
- AKGs, Sonys, Sennheisers for starters... all have been making better sounding headphones for years before Beatsmonospaced
- Jesus, even an old pair of digital JVCs has better sound.monospaced
- And all for under $300 too.monospaced
- With studio sound, and the ability to reproduce bass at a quality better than the Beatsmonospaced
- scarabin, for private music use in the house.sem
- end of the day, its all personal opinion. I don't think they are shit though, far from shit for sure.sem
- Obviously the price is high, but thats because the demand was there. Don't hate them for profit gain lolsem
- The price is high because they have the name attached and tons of marketing. They are still shit, but that's okay to like it.monospaced
- Read ANY review and you'll see the consensus is that they are shit.monospaced
- I don't hate them because they made $, only because they brainwashed people into paying that much for shit.monospaced
- A, if you can be brainwashed into buying stuff, more fool you. B, your review "facts" don't add up to sales facts.sem
- Apple computers are over-priced, but thats ok? They are a business and great at it. You reason for hating them is personal choice.sem
- personal choice, and thats fine. But you can't say they give shit audio quality. Shit quality would be standard earbud headphones.sem
- I have used MANY headphones over the years in high end studios, but BBD are FUN with bass stuff. So I enjoy them for that.sem
- I understand you enjoy that. But they ARE shit. Read ANY quality review. It's a pure fact.monospaced
- There are tons of headphones at the same cost that are leagues better. That's all I'm saying.monospaced
- Yes of corse, the DT series piss all over them. But they are not as fun, they are work headphones.sem
- Its like a PC can be "better" spec wise but not as simple and fun and inspiring as a Mac.sem
- bwaahahaha... beats aren't inspiring, in any way, especially not in soundmonospaced
- and how the hell are they "fun" compare to others? do they tell you jokes? c'monmonospaced
- anyway, I don't want to argue since you clearly love your fun, shit sounding beats that get pissed on by 99% of 'phonesmonospaced
- Most people that purchased BBD's don't care for quality anyway, they prob have low rip mp3 files.sem
- But they like the headphones cos the bass rattles their head, its fun. And you can't hate them for enjoying it.sem
- Pissed on by 99% of phones? more like 40% if that. But still, I do enjoy them :)sem
- "beats aren't inspiring" you can't speak for everyone. Many producers would disagree.sem
- Many make tracks with them, and them mix the songs after the pre-production is done cos it saves mixing low end.sem
- hahahaha, I bet they do...monospaced
- do you like the cars, the cars that go 'boom?' :Dmonospaced
- also... don't take it so personally because the entire audiophile industry says they're shitmonospaced
- if you have fun with them, good for you. just don't go around saying they're great soundmonospaced
- have a nice weekend, I'm outmonospaced
- *hug* we cool? good. And I don't care what audiophile people say, I care for what my own ears like :) they serve me well.sem
- well, and have brought me much happiness :) I just won't get you no BBD for Xmas, just socks?sem
- empty_popcorn_bag.gi...ZOOP
- this has to be some kind of recordfooler
- wow such comments, much long, very satisfied.johanito
- Sem = beats owner in denialset
- sureshot0
Are we talking about the dude from Yo! mtv raps?
- sem0
So far I'm getting the impression that because I like them I am,
1. Suffering from brand empathy
2. In Denial
3. A Consumerism ZombieYou guys are pro choice eh? so let me get this right...anything that costs more than its worth, and owned by many means I am suffering from one of the above?
Cos it thats the case, I believe the alternative would leave me without many things in life. I mean, technically, my house cost a ton more than the price it cost to make it, and almost everyone has one...but I guess i'm just a zombie buying into the "cool" trend :/
You're all right, lets ban anything new and expensive and all stick to the same brand of affordable electronics and never see any growth anywhere. Because the headphone biz was booming before Monster.
- dude, the headphone business has been huge for a very, very long time, but dre just made it stylishmonospaced
- despite the fact that they're ugly as fuck, and sound like shit (unless you like shit, which many people do)monospaced
- Buy what you like... you don't have to explain shit.
Who gives a fuck what others think.. I sure don't.Fantrom - think.Fantrom
- Fantrom, I salute you.sem
- sem0
Sorry if that came across shitty, I'm on my period lol
Seriously though, who cares? they are just frigging headphones. We should be arguing over important things like Miley Cyrus future?!?!!!
- sarahfailin0
A woman I met who works for a small, high quality speaker company recommended BOSE headphones-- the company got started making headphones for pilots, and they apparently have great quality and noise-cancellation.
- bose is to audio, what hot topic is to punk rock. remember that.Miguex
- sem0
Dre makes money from cheap labour = Everyone hates
Apple does same and has staff commit suicide = Everyone buys more- they have the staff do it? like it's company policy? are you retarded?doesnotexist
- Apple doesn't employ or pay that dead staff. Foxconn did. quit reading only the part you want to read.pango
- Wow, I have to state that Apple didn't tell them to do it or pay them direct? COM'ONsem
- And yes it was Foxconn but Apple continue to use them as do many others despite work environment.sem
- many companies uses Foxconn's factories. don't know why you single out apple. plus not every factories has the same technology to scale to meet mega brands demand.pango
- technology or scale to meet mega brands demand. and mega brands demand depends on consumer demand. I blame consumer.pango
- consumerspango
- lol yeah, its the peoples fault they are not running the biz properly. Apple could afford new factories in USsem
- And you expected me to list Microsoft and all the others in my example? loool suresem
- The problem is also (more so) foxconn's management practice. if apple does have a factory in the US. they would lose one giant competitive edge.pango
- giant competitive edge. it is impossible for that kind of main stream consumer company.pango
- Asshole. Apple is building factories in the US. Who else is doing that?monospaced
- issue is Apple's smugness while using said factories - life changer (for some in the West)fadein11
- the smugness is in your head, it's not in their actions or in their press releasesmonospaced
- ❤❤❤mekk
- mono, you're getting way too wound up over such topics lol, chill out. You don't need to defend Apple also.sem