SparkOnShore
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Correct. They have good drivers and will pick up on source differences. They specifically lack presence and sparkle over SBC, but sound much better over aptX. Even still, for around the same price, I think the HD1 over SBC sound better than the Studio3 over AAC, while you also get an overall better built headphone with aptX and digital USB audio connection.
That’s just your opinion of course! Just needed to emphasize that! Because according to my point of view, it’s just impossible for a headphone over SBC to sound better than another one, more or less of same league, over AAC on Apple Music, on an Apple device! Also keep in mind that the digital USB connection is useless for most people who go buying wireless. If I wanted the USB I could very well keep on using my wired headphones as I was doing 10 years ago...And what about the continuous drops of all Bluetooth products without the W1? Will someone pay gladly you believe 200 eur for SBC, audio/video delays and signal drops, for a rather debatable “better audio quality”?
It’s just that you do not like the new more balanced Beats presentation, without the bass exaggeration of previous generations. Here we have a more emphasized middle section with a good and deep bass, which is not bloated though as it was in the past as well as detailed but not fatiguing highs. We can all remember the good old Shure sound here, it has taken a lot of that, I think.
In any case I like the new Beats presentation, you don’t. That’s all and of course there is nothing wrong with that!
Finally regarding the better built of the HD1, are you considering in that also the hanging cables from both sides on the Sennheiser? On a full size, Bluetooth headphone in 2018?? Really?