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post #16 of 28
8/19/12 at 12:34pm
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Originally Posted by elvergun View Post

The thing is...some of these people are buying headphones as a "fashion" statement.   I don't think most of them care about sound quality and they would be  happy with Apple earbuds, but since they want to be cool, they go and spend hundreds of dollars on headphones because all the cool kids are doing the same.  Now, the sad thing is that I've seen some older people with Beats.  The general public think that Bose, and now Monster, are top tiered brands when it comes to headphones. 

 

Marketing...gotta love it.  But hey, it's their own ears they are polluting with crappy sound.

i think bose it good

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post #17 of 28
8/19/12 at 12:40pm
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Originally Posted by ilikedonkeys39 View Post

i think bose it good

Bose is still pretty bad but I would have to say they might be the best of the worst.

 

The comfort on some of their headphones, oh my lawd it is so good.

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post #18 of 28
8/19/12 at 1:21pm

I have a friend who came to school once with a pair of beats knowing that there are head-fiers in his class, the next day he returne, the beats didn't. Fortunantly he got em for free.

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post #19 of 28
8/19/12 at 1:23pm

Sorry to break it to you OP, but if he really is a friend then he would listen to you, without you having to resort to subliminal messages.

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post #20 of 28
8/19/12 at 3:53pm
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Originally Posted by Supertoaster View Post

Bose is still pretty bad but I would have to say they might be the best of the worst.

 

The comfort on some of their headphones, oh my lawd it is so good.

oh my gosh! yes!! i want a pair of ae2 just for watching youtube and stuff all day because they are soooooo darn comfy!

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post #21 of 28
8/19/12 at 5:16pm
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Originally Posted by elvergun View Post

The thing is...some of these people are buying headphones as a "fashion" statement.   I don't think most of them care about sound quality and they would be  happy with Apple earbuds, but since they want to be cool, they go and spend hundreds of dollars on headphones because all the cool kids are doing the same.  Now, the sad thing is that I've seen some older people with Beats.  The general public think that Bose, and now Monster, are top tiered brands when it comes to headphones. 

 

Marketing...gotta love it.  But hey, it's their own ears they are polluting with crappy sound.

It also says a lot about those who have promoted them. I didn't pay much attention to Lady Gaga when she first came out, but by the time Poker Face as a single, I decided to investigate what all the hype was about. I didn't find much to warrant the hype, not to mention I found her disingenuous.

 

Then I saw that she was promoting Beats headphones in a music video along and in some interview on them or such, said something like "This is how we, the artists, intend for our music to be heard." Guess my initial impression was right after all.


Edited by Not Yet - 8/19/12 at 5:17pm
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post #22 of 28
8/19/12 at 5:39pm
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Originally uttered by Aristophanes:
 
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”

 

Figure out which of the above groupings he belongs in, then act accordingly.

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post #23 of 28
8/19/12 at 6:41pm

Show him this forum

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post #24 of 28
8/20/12 at 10:15am
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Originally Posted by Mr Newyear View Post

Show him this forum

 

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The topic was how to tell a Beats user that Beats aren't very good, not how to persuede someone to spend $10,000 on power tubes and vibration feet! bigsmile_face.gif

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post #25 of 28
8/20/12 at 12:38pm
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Originally Posted by IEMCrazy View Post

 

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The topic was how to tell a Beats user that Beats aren't very good, not how to persuede someone to spend $10,000 on power tubes and vibration feet! bigsmile_face.gif

 

That's still money better spent there than on Beats, lol.

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post #26 of 28
8/20/12 at 12:48pm

If he JUST bought them then tell him they suck in time for him to exchange them for something else.

 

I can't ever see myself buying any audio eqiuipment with "by Dr. Dre" on the box. It's just too comical.

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post #27 of 28
8/20/12 at 12:51pm
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Originally Posted by Mr Newyear View Post

Show him this forum

Yeah if you're afraid of insulting him you could just say "so now that you're a headphones guy check out this forum". If he really cares either way how good they are then he'd figure it out himself. If he doesn't care, he won't bother.

 

I wish I knew about this forum before I spent hundreds of dollars on terrible headphones the guitar center salesman described as super awesome.


Edited by machoboy - 8/20/12 at 12:57pm
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post #28 of 28
8/20/12 at 1:39pm

I don't get it.  If he cares about sound quality then you should have no problem telling him that he got ripped off.  However, if he doesn't care about sound quality but cares about how they look and how cool they are then who are you to say that hes "wasting" his money?

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