Does the devil wear Prada...or Phiaton? - Page 12

to know about the Prada brand, does not require any special interest.

But knowing of the Prada/Phiaton does show that a person has a certain interest in audio.

 

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The thing is I'm not an audiophile I'm just a guy who loves his music. You only have to check my profile page to see my gear to know I'm not an audiophile. If anything most real audiophiles on here would consider my gear low or at very best mid grade. The idea I'm trying to get across is there's enough well off people who come on here who like me aren't audiophiles who will spend 600 1000 10 000 or even more on gear just because they want great sounding music. Someone who spends 600 on a rebranded headphone only because it has the Prada logo on it isn't an audiophile or a music lover, he/she is just a fashionista or lazy. In my mind the people who buy this Prada headphone are no different then the people who would run out and buy a Beats can. They're basically buying it as either a fashion statement or because they're to lazy to do the research and think just because it has a certain logo on it it's going to be the best sounding headphone money can buy. If Prada had actually hired someone to build them a great sounding 600 dollar headphone well then great. The point is they didn't and instead decided to order a bunch of Phiaton headphones and rebrand them and jack the price up to 600 bones. Yes the people who will buy it can easily afford it BUT it still doesn't change the fact they're either being shallow by buying a product because it has the Prada name on it or they're being lazy because they can't be bothered to do some research into what a real good sounding 600 dollar headphone sounds like. That's all I'm trying to say. If they want to buy a Phiaton headphone for 600 bones it's their business but it still doesn't change the fact they're willingly letting themselves get hosed for the sake of being either a fashionista or just plain lazy.

 

Edited by DigitalFreak - 11/25/11 at 3:03am

If you had the choice, would you rather buy the Prada or the 600$ Limited Edition Beats?

'non of the above' is not an option.

Prada=Phiaton rebrand = better sound then Beats

Paris Hilton might even use these to DJ. Hmmm.

A cookie for anyone who knows where the "Haris Pilton" reference is from... xD

 

World of Warcraft

 

Both Beats and Prada are tapping into a fashion/egoistic uninformed audio fan market that is probably bigger than the audiophile market out there. It's a sad truth. I've read somewhere that Beats is like the 3rd best selling headphone brand in US behind Sony and Bose, while SkullCandy isn't too far behind...speaking about audiophile! 

Seems to make perfect sense to me.

 

 

 

Phiaton = Korean Company

 

And Korea has a history of buying luxury accessories like this. Like the LG Prada cellphone.

wow very good to see this picture and read your article! i wanto to get a new pair of headphone and was very tempted by dr beats but now i think i might get the phiatons, it's a brand i didn't know! how is their sound performance? (of the phiatons) 

I can only speak for the MS400, but they are very nice portable headphones. They are pretty comfortable, isolate very well, sound good with most music, and look totally unique.

Sound wise, they are not the best at anything, but do everything well enough, and have no serious weaknesses.

In case kidA2012 is actually listening to advice on this thread:

 

The PS320s and MS400s are utterly (and by utterly, I mean utterly) opposite headphones.  The sound is polarizingly distinct (you won't detect a house sound between the two), the drivers are different in number as well as kind, the cups are made of carbon in one case, patterned leather in the other, the cords are different shapes and widths and issue from different places, the 400s' accessories are superior, the cases are even dissimilar and, visually, the headphones are distant relatives (though both are swanky).  Each belongs to a different Phiaton generation and reflects a different sonic strategy.

 

The 320s are voiced for the leisure-inclined listener who likes crisp highs and not the low-teat-sucking basshead who dislikes pointy metallic sounds and is actually wounded by pizzicato.  Their dual drivers lend them a clarity that will remind you of Etys (though the detail is slightly more blurred).  Looks-wise, I find them more fashionable than the 400s despite all the folderol:  They're fashion-windward without making the wearer appear pink-wingtip-ostentatious.  You'll find that both men and women love the pattern on the earcups, too. 

 

The 400s are perfect for someone who's flung too many bright headphones into their collection.  They're far less fatiguing than the 320s and are zoot-suited to travel conditions that might involve unintentionally kicking the volume to deaf-school levels. Like DJ headphones, the 400s emphasize bass so that the professional needn't turn it up to hear it.  They're warm and please-God forgiving; the case and collapsible form make them perfect for packing.

 

For traipsing around the city in my understated heather-gray codpiece, I prefer the PS320s; ditto for listening in relative quiet.  But the 400s are Jake when your ears need a break.  Burma Shave.

 

If I were going to buy the 400s, I'd opt for the carbon black model.  Yew kin git away with the red iteration, and the 400s' larger earcups make them better for men than the 300s', but there are too many times when I want to blend into the mental background of some donkeyhat's worldview and, at times like thems, black beats red with tiny fistic tendrils.  If you don't believe me, just ask the victims in Charlie Chaplin's splatter flicks.

 

 

Edited by scrypt - 1/27/12 at 8:51am