why people like the beats-
-They find it stylish at least the consumerist that buy it.
-As I know a bit about marketing monster knows what people like to listen to and have created a headphone for them. Don't you think they got the money to higher every damn good engineer and put out an unbelievable headphone.
-portable
-very good isolation
-and does not require every other gadget in the world to work.
You guys say non audiophiles are stupid for paying 400 dollars on headphones that sound bad, but then if you think about it there are some people that have payed well over 2grand on gear here, i hate sound like an *******, but isn't that kind of ironic. I personally got into the audiophile world because of the beats. I didn't lose a penny on them sold them for the same price i bought them for, owned them for 6+ months and i enjoyed them. I can't say the same for my other headphones I've bought. I feel like people forget why they became audiophiles, its more about the headphones now than it is the music you listen to. I too have this problem. No headphone here will ever be good enough and just like any kind of activity you partake in you will get bored of it. Personally wish I got into this hobby when I was a lot older, then i probably would appreciate it more, but till that time comes stop hating on consumerist products, people don't have time to snoop around the interwebs looking for what headphones are the best for them, they got better things to do, plus shouldn't these other audiophile companies start focusing on creating consumerist products or get their products out their or would that be blasphemy to you audiophiles.