Beats by Dre
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- HijoDMaite0
The truth is he definitely wants them for status, he listens to an iPod for crying out loud. They will probably sound ten times better than his earbuds, so he'll love them and praise their quality. None of his friends own a pair of the latest color (orange), he said he may even wait for the lime green ones to come out. Clearly not thinking about sound quality.
I could school him regarding headphones and push some German or Japanese product but do I really want to do that? I may just get them on that Canadian Amazon site for $199, they won't be orange but at least he'll save $100. I'll let you know what he decides. I will also force him to take a pic so we can make fun how douchey he looks. lol
as far as him getting jumped or stabbed for them h can handle his own, i don't worry about that. he doesn't live in a that bad of a neighborhood.
- yes, as his brother you want to help him not be a dipshit consumer. that and his wingman when necessaryidiots
- benfal990
Montreal is a super safe city, surely safer than your brother's city, and people get punch in the face in the street at 2PM in front of people for those gadget... so.
Video of one of those 'attack' > http://www.cyberpresse.ca/videos…
- DAAAAAAAAAMN that's not cool man, what a cowardMiguex
- it's cool dude, your brother can hold his ownidiots
- thats fucked up, reminiscent of the 90's and Air JordansHijoDMaite
- Miguex0
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yeah mon, that's what he wants, they are hard to get there, you send him a pair and he will love you eternally. You are a good brother man.
- HijoDMaite0
- they look like sonys, with nicer color options, never heard of themMiguex
- they look cheapcruddlebub
- prophetone0
- such a great idea, pairing headphones w artists, like if they were t-shirts, these guys are making bankMiguex
- section_0140
DO NOT buy these. Buy AKG, Sennheiser or Beyerdynamic. Even without listening to those, I can tell their shit. The companies I mentioned are top notch.
- < Truth. Only I'd skip Senn and Beyer. AKG is used by all the real producers in-studio...and the POPE.luckyorphan
- HijoDMaite0
thanks for all your input. speaking of consuming, my girlfriend just asked if I wanted to go to the mac store with her and i jumped up and said, yes!
be back later.
- idiots0
This thread is what's wrong with consumers (not corporations), not the highway robbery of branded over marketed shit, but the willingness to swallow that $300 pill because it gives some false sense of happiness without doing what it's sole intention is at 100%.
You can keep hating the 1%, but it's really dumb to pay them then hate them. QBN hypocrisy, Fuck yeah.
- holy assumptions galoreprophetone
- there no assumption is calling a consumer of those things a fool. see Occupy Wall St thread for other side of storyidiots
- "fuck corporations" followed by "I know they suck but they're cool" followed by purchase & repeatidiots
- and what did you post this hypothesis with? an abacus? please. i hate consumerism too snowflake.prophetone
- mg330
- & if spending $300 was important
http://www.amazon.co…idiots
- & if spending $300 was important
- colab0
Recommend others but if he still wants them get him the ones he wants. It's his money.
Let him learn the quality lesson on his own.
- raf0
I always use this review megathread for headphones reference: http://www.head-fi.org/t/433318/…
- HijoDMaite0
fuckin LOL
I just went down the street to the Mac store and they had two sets of the 'studio' beats by Dre headphones on display. I picked one up to listen and it did not work, I asked one of the kids what was up and he said he didn't know, that someone had maybe pulled on the wires (as he started to fumble with the chords)
So I go to the next display and as soon as I pick these up the right speaker is broken and hanging limp. I put them on and started to scroll through the music options on the store's iPod touch, finally I find Lauryn Hill and press play. Only the left speaker worked! hahaha I just laughed. I did pick up the new box that the orange ones come in, very nice packaging and very heavy box. $299.99 .
The sound quality was just 'loud' I could feel a speaker kind of 'bumpin' on my ear and the sound cancelation was good. Of course I only had one side to gauge by.
- you may just have killed your bro,
jk jkgeorgesIII - yeah at the Beats display at Best Buy everyone was broken but I guess they see a lot of usefooler
- you may just have killed your bro,
- monNom0
- ACCESS FORBIDDEN. Your IP is being logged for investigation into the matter. 108.193.192.106idiots
- See...now someone's talkin' sense.luckyorphan
- so you're a picture guy then?
http://www.qbn.com/t… because I already said it.idiots
- luckyorphan0
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There are very few brands that measure up to AKG, frankly. They've been around since the 40's, are used by everyone from Sinatra to Quincy Jones to the Pope, and are the standard for in-studio performance. Many artists won't go on stage without their AKG microphones, and the brand signs up more every month.- < Full disclosure - I work for the parent company that makes AKG.luckyorphan
- fooler0
- clearly that's omar eppsidiots
- sip the juice...prophetone
- tOki0
- HijoDMaite0
the original request came from him via YouTube video. He said: "Hey bro, what kind of headphones are these this guy is wearing?"
This is it:
Watch the video as it starts off with the rapper shoving aside some kid with earbuds. And then watch as the director has him switch headphones 3 times, from black, red to pink. All the while hanging out at a sneaker shop..
Also notice the #1 comment
I told him they were Beats by Dr. Dre and that they were $300. After I sent him the website with all the color options, that's when he got excited. Clearly it was the design that caught his attention, and the fact the brand is new to him down there. Once he saw the other colors he was hooked.
- http://uk.akg.com/pr…idiots
- < now that is nice.HijoDMaite
- yeah, they prolly paid some money for that, great moveMiguex