Sleek By 50 Cent Agreement... TERMINATED!

I know, it was the best news I've read on engadget in a while lol. Supposedly, from what I've read, the headphones didn't have the sound quality 50 cent was expecting. That's actually quite respectable and shows he's not willing just to put his name on anything, but who knows how true that is? If only we had headphones endorsed by people who know the audio world... oh wait, we do, they're called Shure, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, AKG etc etc. 

I saw that, to bad that they couldn't make more money off of other people's names

The bass probably was probably too accurate and not "boomy" enough.
 

 

All of the mentioned artists are endorsing monster products and I think it has helped monster with sales amongst non-audiophiles and enthusiasts.
 

 

Edited by Rip N' Burn - 5/6/11 at 6:14pm

Unfortunately kids nowadays wants something that looks cool and stylish. If an artist can make them more attractive to a potential buyer, then there's lots of money to be made. Artists and celebrities are selling out more then ever.
 

 

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Miles Davis doesn't have his own headphone "line." Monster has one headphone with his name on it and they don't seem like a non-audiophile headphone to me.

That is the only artist that doesn't deserve to have his name on that list, he's dead. If I'm quite honest, Monster should be the one's to blame here. Just my opinion.  

forgot Quincy Jones

 

For all we know, Sleek probably made one that was neutral and 50 didn't like it because he prefers - or presumably he knows that the average consumers - would prefer a thumping headphone. Still, that's what his music needs, albeit rap/rnb vocals sound great through Grados, except they're just always left wanting for bass. But who knows, maybe he wants Grado midrange with lots of bass.

What's disappointing for me, really, isn't that rappers and a pop star all have headphones, but that Metallica had that Skullcandy. For chrissakes, couldn't they have just appeared on a Shure ad? But no, the business sense of Metallica really, really did something worse than stifling creativity that resulted in St.Anger. I mean, come on, a black headphone that has white skulls?! If I wanted to project Metallica, I'd wear a tour t-shirt, not put the graphics from that t-shirt on a headphone. Can you even imagine them using that in the studio? At least you can see the rappers using the Beats that way.

Still, I was hoping the Sleek isn't completely dead. The colours, at least, don't offend my eyes. As much as rappers like the Lambo Reventon, hey, that still looks a lot better than other pimped rides, and a metallic (not chrome) headphone version of hte Reventon isn't all that bad. Can't be worse than those Ferrari headphones that don't sound any better with music than those they actually use in the pits. I still miss the time when Alpine F1 Status series had the silhouette of a Diablo on the manual.

Edited by ProtegeManiac - 5/6/11 at 7:30pm

Quincy may have his own line of headphones, but I've heard a few experienced audiophiles here like their Q701 over their K701/2. Even their K601!

This goes to show that at least Quincy Jones has more experience in the music industry and with AKG.

He's not exactly harming the hi-fi world the way we think he would. 

I guess its like pop stars/celebrities/movie stars with their perfume/fragrance lines, they wouldn't want a flat or accurste sound signature with their endorsed phones, they'd want one that is supposed to reflect their characters, so logically, 50 Cent's ones would be very bass heavy.