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post #31 of 33
10/27/09 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by drgameboy View Post
....which one should i get for portable use when am not at home..ie when i am in school library or just walking around campus with my ipod? i can get both for about $150. headroom rated the beats higher than the shure's, so i am confused. was leaning towards getting the shures for sure..haha
To be fair to the Beats; I owned them for a short time (for twice the price that you're paying, though) and I did find the bass overwhelming. While I took them back before too long, there were nonetheless points for and against the headphones.
PROS
  • Detatchable cable / Mic button was very nice for portable listening; Instead of having to remove your iPod (in my case, the Touch), from your pocket, sliding the whatsit and pressing pause, you can press the mic button to pause/play(once), skip tracks(twice), go back a track(thrice). I do miss the cable dearly.
  • Very comfy leather pads created a nice seal that wasn't too strong.
  • Without music, the noise cancellation was good for quietude.
CONS
  • Ample bass. It's very uneven, and it's not very controlled. There's a crumb of distortion, even seeing as the bass is what the cans are supposed to be good at.
  • Dip in the mids compared to the lower trebble/highest mids, but still dwarfed by the enormous bass. Don't take my word on this, I haven't had the cans for a while.
  • A very biased headphone; It won't reveal details that higher-end 'audiophile' quality headphones will (these are NOT audiophile-grade headphones). Beats are built for poor recordings; They're MTV-grade headphones for MTV-grade recordings.
Ironically, because of my unhappiness with the Beats, I started doing more research and ended up here. Dr. Dre Beats introduced me to the audiophile community. (Albeit because of my resentment for them.) I am a metalhead, so I don't exactly have a bass fetish anyways.
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post #32 of 33
10/27/09 at 6:22pm
FWIW I also came to hifi because I knew that 300 was a lot to spend w/o researching first. As I suspected the beats were way overpriced and basically a marketing gimmick for those who know no better. I don't know too much, but I know how to research and ask questions.

With that being said, my musical tastes are warm and centered around some rock and mostly beats of some sort. Breaks, house, DnB etc. I tried the shure SR840s and while they sounded great, they were missing something for my tastes and that was low end. They are very flat sounding and for what they are intended for, they should be. If I was a jazz/classical enthusiast then I know they would be a great fit for me.

I returned them and picked up the BD DT770's in my sig and I'm absolutely in love because I researched enough to find WHAT SUITS ME IN MY PRICE RANGE. I would bet that my 770's would win out everytime over the beats if tested.

Research this website and you're bound to find someone who has asked the same questions with your musical tastes and find picks for each budget point.

Good luck and if you're a bassheD, give the BD's a try.
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post #33 of 33
10/27/09 at 6:24pm
I also think it's worth to you to go to a guitar center and do some test drives before you pick out one that works for you.
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