I'm also part of the quickly growing group of people interested in a pre-production pair.

monstercable.com/outletstore   These are refurbished beats. Probably the cheapest real ones you'll find.   Edit- Oh wow I didn't realize this thread was from 2011, my bad.

I'm very curious about these and the V-Moda M100s. I'll be interested to see comparisons when the M100s are released.

Hey Head-fi,         I recently purchased V-Moda M-80s as my portable can when going to and from school. And I really love them. They sound awesome and in that regard, I couldn't be happier. The only problem is the isolation. I take the subway in NYC every day to school so it gets noisy...

White M-80s. That sounds amazing. Can't wait to see how those end up looking.

I can vouch for the wonderful V-Moda M80s. The durability on these things is insane. Easily portable and they sound great. Only thing is they don't have the best isolation. It's something to consider for sure if you're taking public transportation a lot or even expect to be in a noisy...

Man I cannot wait for this. Thanks for constantly updating us and responding to our questions Val!

Darn I should've waited a few weeks to buy my M-80s. Could've saved a good 40 bucks. Needless to say I'm still quite happy with my purchase and have been using my M-80s daily for a couple weeks now and absolutely love them. Can't wait for the M-100!

Just to continue the Beats brought me to Head-fi thing:   The first decent headphones I got were some 60 dollar Sony headphones. In retrospect they were probably not very good but I loved them at the time. But after about a year they were falling apart and eventually I lost them, presumably...

Man I won't have the money for another week and a half or so for those Miles Davis IEMs. I really hope the sale is still going on by then.

Quote: Haha. Funny enough that's exactly what i did. I showed him the pretty crazy ways you can stretch and contort them. He was pretty surprised and he knows if he tried to bend his studios even 10% as much as you can with the M-80s, his studios would break.  

Quote: Probably a variety of reasons. I guess it was a mixture of them not being as aesthetically pleasing as Beats (his opinion, not mine) and them being smaller on ear headphones, not overly flashy.  

A friend of mine got Studios, but hey he likes them so I wasn't going to say much. I tried em and they were alright. I didn't think they were bad just worth nowhere near $300. He saw me with the M-80s I just got yesterday and asked me what they were. I told him they were the new headphones I was...

I have Beats Pro right now but was looking to sell them. I'm hoping to get a more portable headphone. I listen to a lot of post hardcore metal but a little dubstep and some pop. But 90% nu-metal and post hardcore stuff. Are these headphones for me? They look awesome and I hear great things about...

So let's say I did purchase the Denon D5000s. If my music is in the 256kbps, will that be an issue? is it worth buying these headphones if all my music is this quality?