Beats by Dre are Garbage!

[Bruce B]

Goes without saying... but if you must read?

Gizmodo article


Lifehacker article

 

[MylesBAstor]

Goes without saying... but if you must read?

Gizmodo article


Lifehacker article

That's a surprise? They are also the fugliest looking things. People wearing them look like fools and like they just landed from Alpha Centuri.

 

[JackD201]

UGGs still top my WTF list but yeah Beats in definitely on it. LOL.

 

[Bruce B]

Just like Monster.... their garbage is taking them all the way to the bank!

Marketing... Marketing.. Marketing...

 

[amirm]

Apple paid $3 billion for the company. Now the negative press comes out! You wonder if they did their due diligence or not.

 

[JackD201]

'cept Lee and Lee were cut out of the 3 billion dollar deal. They've gone to court.

 

[asiufy]

I think Stereophile did a review of those last year (or the year before that, even). Not very glowing review too, btw. Compared to a cheaper headphone, and found the cheaper one better...

Apple paid for the brand, not the product, as theycould've developed a better product in no time...

 

[dalethorn]

I bought the Mixr a couple years ago - meh sound, and uncomfortable due mainly to stiff earpads. Last year I bought the Solo2 after a fairly positive review by Stereophile. The sound was less meh than the Mixr, and a big gain over the original Solo. The comfort was very good. The Momentum On Ear is a good comparison to the Solo2 - both fairly lo-fi but adequate for portable use. The Solo2 packaging was very deluxe - sure to win the hearts of their customers. I can't address the ultimate quality of the Solo2 because I donated it to the local hospital soon after reviewing it. What's really tragic about Beats is exemplified by the displays in the Apple store - every aspect of the "grey people" or lemmings in Apple's 1984 ad for the Macintosh is there in the Beats brand - extreme dullness and conformity - truly a 1984-ish product. But the packaging is really very good.

 

[ack]

That's a surprise? They are also the fugliest looking things. People wearing them look like fools and like they just landed from Alpha Centuri.

Actually, Zeta Reticuli; umm, make that Rediculi

 

[Asamel]

I listened to Layla on my son's Beats last year and it was unrecognizable.

 

[FrantzM]

I listened to Layla on my son's Beats last year and it was unrecognizable.

What mischief is he guilty of to deserve such a punishment? A Beats headphone??

 

[mep]

Where's Harman when you need them? We need Harman to get into the headphone business and train up their Harmanites on what to hear under double-baffled conditions so they can tell everyone what they should buy. This would help keep atrocious sounding headphones from entering the marketplace.

 

[Bruce B]

Actually Dr. Olive did a "blind" headphone test. Results were as expected.

 

[mep]

Actually Dr. Olive did a "blind" headphone test. Results were as expected.

Were they one-eared headphones?

 

[DonH50]

As if you needed more: http://www.designnews.com/author.as...stry_consumer,kw_33,aid_277948&dfpLayout=blog

Less than $17 worth of parts, some of which serve no purpose except to make them heavier to prey upon consumer's connection of "heavy" with "quality".

 

[rblnr]

I didn't like their sound in my brief listen to them, but it appears that a knock-off was used for the teardown:

http://www.core77.com/posts/38467/[-BREAKING-NEWS-]-Uh-Oh-Beats-Teardown-Apparently-Used-Beats-Knockoffs

Harman owns AKG btw.