[WiR3D]

Hobby? Lol my wallet says curse

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[MuppetFace]

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This video shows a girl wearing the new Denon headphones walking around ....note: move to half way in the video
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5t2-0WNASw&feature=relmfu

 
 
That video is hilarious. You've got an attractive model and setting, all this effort expended on trying to showcase the product in a favorable way, and the actual product itself is just repulsive. The effect is kind of like plunking a witch's cauldron filled with bubbling fish head stew down onto the table at an immaculately arranged high society dinner party.

 

[dtrisgvex]

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You and others missed the point completely - audiophiles laughs at people buying Beats because they say Beats buyers base their purchases on looks and not sound, when people judging the D7100 before listening to them they are doing the EXACT SAME THING that they are laughing at others for doing - it's call hypocrisy and I'm pointing that out.  
 
Being an audiophile should mean we should care about the sound first - not saying you don't have to care about looks too, but putting looks before sound is not what what our community should be about.
 
TBH I don't think the D7100 looks that good either, but I'm 100% not going to judge them until I listen to them first, if they sound good - or heaven forbid - they sound better than the D7000 I would buy them base on that merit.  Anyone doing otherwise should be ashamed to call themselves an audiophile IMO.

 
For the nowadays audio world, to have a improved quality, you will need a pair of new drivers, but here's the problem: if Denon puts a different driver in the D7100, then D7100 should not be called D7100, they should start a new series instead of a minor upgrade on the model number. And IMO, most of the traditional headphones(Grado, ATH, Denon), woodie cups housing always provide better music quality, and for sure I don't see a single little piece of wood on these new models, even from the first design graph, they have no intention to do so. For the price I read, I don't think the beats fans gonna make a change, 1000 dollars for a pair of headphones is little out of non-headfiers range. 
PS: If I have to show my non-headfier friends headphones and I only got D7K and D7.1K on hand, I will show them the D7.1K because I don't think most of them will appreciate wood cups.
Just my two cents.

 

[iamthem]

If they end up like the d1000 -> d1100 I'm going to throw up.

 

[nakaroxx]

i hope new d7100 sounds much better than d7000 since the new d7100 is so horrible looking

 

[rhythmdevils]

Wood cups don't do that much for the sound.  A headphone could sound really great with or without.  There are other far more important things. For example, a properly damped plastic cup would sound better than the empty wooden cups you usually see on these expensive headphones.  So it's really just for looks.

 

[Taowolf51]

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PS: If I have to show my non-headfier friends headphones and I only got D7K and D7.1K on hand, I will show them the D7.1K because I don't think most of them will appreciate wood cups.
Just my two cents.

 
Who are these people that don't appreciate wood? I've never come across someone that'd look at mahogany and say "yeah, okay", then look over at plastic and say "oh shi- plastic!? How'd you get this, that's so awesome!"

 

[kn19h7]

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Who are these people that don't appreciate wood? I've never come across someone that'd look at mahogany and say "yeah, okay", then look over at plastic and say "oh shi- plastic!? How'd you get this, that's so awesome!"

 
one here.

 

[dagothur]

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one here.

Well stop being wrong about things and like what everyone else here likes.

 

[DaBomb77766]

Oh man I didn't even realize these were actually real until just now.  I must say I am disappointed from their departure of actually making headphones look stunningly beautiful...I wonder who their OEM is now?  This doesn't look like something Foster would put out...

 

[Magick Man]

Oh man I didn't even realize these were actually real until just now.  I must say I am disappointed from their departure of actually making headphones look stunningly beautiful...I wonder who their OEM is now?  This doesn't look like something Foster would put out...

Hasbro? Mattel?

 

[KG Jag]

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Hasbro? Mattel?

 
Ronco Sound-O-Matic?

 

[maverickronin]

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Hasbro? Mattel?

 
Fisher Price?

 

[Sweden]

This is how the Beats Gaming Edition headphones would look like without mic.

 

[IEMCrazy]

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Oh man I didn't even realize these were actually real until just now.  I must say I am disappointed from their departure of actually making headphones look stunningly beautiful...I wonder who their OEM is now?  This doesn't look like something Foster would put out...

 
I would not at all be surprised if it was Monster itself.  There was some hullabaloo about Beats splitting from Monster as their manufacturing partner, which, if true, means Monster may have some spare headphone production capacity sitting around, and is in need of a partner to use it for....  Even if the drivers are being sourced from elsewhere (heck, even if it were still Foster.)