Lavender_Harmony wrote:If you buy a chocolate bar, and it tastes awful, don't keep buying the same chocolate bar over and over.
XXDarkShadow79XX wrote:Cool idea for a little review series bro. Can't wait to see what you put out next. As for Beats, my friends usually want them for their first pair, but luckily I can talk them out of it.
Funny story, my dad almost bought me beats for Christmas last year, but he said they looked a bit too pricey. So he bought me Bose OE2s. Thanks overpriced Beats, you saved me from your own crappy self.
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Nonsense_Profile wrote:Lavender_Harmony wrote:If you buy a chocolate bar, and it tastes awful, don't keep buying the same chocolate bar over and over.
I completely agree with that statement, and in any case I wouldn't buy a pair of headphone's by a certain company if I already bought a pair that were complete shit.
But since the symbolic object that we are using is chocolate, think of it like this...
You buy a chocolate bar, bite into it, and discover that it taste's awful. "Bleh!" you say in disgust, and a man near where you are turn's and ask's you "what's wrong with the chocolate bar?", "It taste's awful!" you say, the man look's down, appearing to ponder this. "So you wouldn't spend money on it?" he ask's calmly, "No" you say in return. "Would anyone buy this candy bar?" he ask's, now your thinking, would they? You realize "Yeah, because they don't know it taste's awful... they have no reason not too.", "Hmm... well, what could you do to stop them from making this... regrettable choice?" "I could tell them... yeah! I could tell them!" you say. "Yes, yes you could, but there is also more candy bar's in there, who's to say any one of those couldn't be equally as disgusting? Are you prepared to spend all of your own money for the well being and happiness of other's?"
You think... "I wouldn't have enough money too."
The man smile's at you and say's "Then how about this. I buy you the candy bar's, you test them, you get to keep any uneaten candy you tested, and I'll even pay you a small salary, all I ask that after you get done testing an individual bar, to report back to me about whether or not it tasted bad, and why you thought that, Sound good?"
Yes, it did sound good, too good. "Yes, but why? Why would you do that? Why would you help all of these people if you don't know them? Why would you be prepared to pay me? Why am I so special?"
He let's out a small laugh, wink's at you and begin's to walk away, "Special? My boy, your not special, I'm paying other's to do the same exact thing as you. Think of it as a... necessary expense" He smile's once more before walking away completely, and give's his reason.
"I own a candy store across town lad, and if I can find out what make's other candy so bad, I can make my candy better."
Marketing, it's a very evil game, but still a profitable one.
I, like so so many other's don't buy these headphone's, all we do is receive them, tell what we like or dislike about them, and report to someone else why, the only difference is that not many people blog about their finding's. such as me. It's almost like a... movie reviewer, understand?
Lavender_Harmony wrote:
I'm with you, though the reviews you've done were more entertaining than technically insightful, it still puts across the message that beats are a pile of garbage though. Most people already knew that, just by looking at the spec sheet for em.
Kyoga wrote:Why would you even buy beats?
They're absolutely terrible.
itroitnyah wrote:Wow, it's always fun to read a review by people who would qualify as audiophiles. Audiophiles are cool people. I like to consider myself an audiophile, but I don't think I have the experience with audio equipment to be considered one, or the equipment to be considered one.
But still, great review.
vladnuke wrote:Are you gonna do more headphones? I have a very nice pair of shure srh840's, but I've been thinking about what other headphones I might get. The Shures have great listening quality and are excellent studio headphones (nice flat responce, good impedence, good soundstage) but are frankly kinda ugly and I wouldn't want to wear them around. Then again, I might just get the dj-like headphones by shure, with the gold metal stuff on, those look like they could be worn and listened to.
indeable wrote:lets do a beats comparison to my own 50$ headphones to give you the scientific reason why beats suck.
if you want a good pair of all round use headphones with HIGH volume that keeps its quality try American audio 550s. i use them for gigs and all round use. but there a dj headphone and the cord may be long for some people but for 50 bucks its not bad.
ill be using these as a comparison.
heres comparison to beats studios.
beats studios ($250
impedance: 16W
Speaker: 40mm
Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz
Sensitivity: 110dB (+/- 2dB)
Rated Wattage: L + R: 60mW
American audio 550's (50 $)
Driver unit: 57mm diameter dome
Impedance: 64Ω
Sensitivity: 107dB±3dB (S.P.L. at 1kHz)
Frequency response: 5Hz to 30kHz
Maximum power: 3500mW
Plug: 3.5mm stereo plug with 6.3mm gold-plated adapter
to explain that to non audiophiles
1.the dome is well bigger meaning louder sound and deeper bass
2. frequency response refers to how high or low speakers play.
now the human ear cant hear under 16 or over 20k generally but under 16 means that the bass can be felt better and reverberated better. over and that means you can turn speakers up louder generally.
3. sensitivity is how loud the speakers can get now beats may be higher by a small margin but they need extra power to achieve this.
4.wattage
wattage is how much they can take because beats have a built in amp that im assuming uses the power from 2 AAAs i cant compare this cause the 550's don’t need battery’s.
5 impedance this refers to how efficient headphones are. the impedance of a pair of headphones increases, more voltage but less current is required to drive it, and the loudness of the headphones for a given voltage decreases. ill let you compare yourself.
6 as a note beats also are built to add bass while this might sound good think of it like a permanent equalizer. usually you dont want the same equalizer for all genres. and the noise cancellation tends to muddle things cause it adds sound in order to cancel. the 550's just do this by being harmonically sealed.(soundproof cause of a good fit and well sealed casing.)
in short the beats are worse than headphones 1/4 their price and chew through batterys.
and dont buy headphones because of their brand name.
hopefully you understand why people hate beats now.
~indeable out
vladnuke wrote:Are you gonna do more headphones? I have a very nice pair of shure srh840's, but I've been thinking about what other headphones I might get. The Shures have great listening quality and are excellent studio headphones (nice flat responce, good impedence, good soundstage) but are frankly kinda ugly and I wouldn't want to wear them around. Then again, I might just get the dj-like headphones by shure, with the gold metal stuff on, those look like they could be worn and listened to.
Applejinx wrote:Sennheiser.
Nonsense_Profile wrote:Thank you!
... I think?
... Is an audiophile a good thing to be? I mean... I like head phone's well enough, but I don't think I'd invite it to Bible Camp any time soon... it's a strictly platonic relationship between us..
Nonsense_Profile wrote:What I'm talking about, this review is honest and serious and reliable and technical...
... and boring as fuck, holy shit I had to bribe myself with skittle's just to keep reading past the first fucking line...
That was a bit douchebag-ish and I'm sorry...
But you talk like I don't know why people hate them, I know why people hate them, they suck, they only sell for status symbol's, unfortunately marketer's and manufacturer's apparently don't know why people hate them, so that's where I come in.
I say exactly what's bad about them, and why, so that they can better the product.
Market research from an angry teenager is never wrong.
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