Beats BY Dr Dre headphones are the good ?

Ask yourself this. How much of their price tag is due to having Dr Dre's name slapped on them?

From what I have read, they are good, but you can get equal or better quality from paying less. Looking at the price of those Solo's, Sennheiser's HD25's are the same price, give or take a few £, and will murder the Solo's. Friend of mine has the HD25's, awesome bass, they seem to have an unreserved supply of it.
 
Yea ino that, it like mac's all your paying for is the name.
Ive heard the good reviews for them like but still unsure what to get.
 
like said above the sound on them is good but you are also paying a huge percentage for the name and the image

wether you buy them depends if all you care about it best sound quality for the best money (you could get same sound for cheaper or better sound for the same price...) or if you do care about image
 
What Hi fi Australia recently did a noise cancelling headphones roundup. Over there Goldring NS1000s cost about the same as the Beats so they were compared in the same price bracket. They rated the Goldring higher.

In the UK NS1000s will set you back 50 to 60 quid.
 
The solos arent so great from what i have read..sound quite tinny compared to the Studio ones.

I have a pair of the Dr Dre Studio ones and i have to say they are immense headphones...are they worth the £250??...nope but then im a big fan of Dr Dre so bought a pair and they sound great with my Sony X series mp3 player...tried them with my ipod touch and they sounded rubbish.
 
I have the Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones, best headphones I've ever had. Very accurate with excellent frequency reach on all levels, and won't disappoint in the bass department, you will hear music the way the producer heard it in the studio. Very good headphones for studio work, vocals. Gaming is very good too. They are comfortable and I wear them for long hours with ease. Partly coiled cable can be a little annoying but fine if you sit near to your source connection, if you look around there's a straight cable version only but it's harder to find and most likely more expensive. the M50 can be found for about £119.99 at a popular headphone store.

Depending what your needs are you might want to go for something less but I can say the M50 are a good all round headphone for entertainment and fullfil the need for any professional production work too. Build is excellent, as is isolation both ways.
 
I own both the hd25 and ath-m50 and can vouch that both are very good phones. Not heard em, but the solo's will probably have a lot more bass which drowns out the other frequencies. In comparison, the other 2 are fairly balanced with a slight bass emphasis. I'd say the hd25 has more bass impact while the m50 extends lower.
 
The beats studio's are good if you like your bass, but it can ruin more delicate music as the bass is sometimes overkill. Admittedly i love the look of them and with those looks come a huge price tag!
 
Yea, see what most of you mean , you really are paying for the name, if i had the money now i prob would still but the solo's or the studios, the just look so comfortable and good construction to them unlike other headphone like that.

At the minute i think i will stick with my turtle beaches as i wouldn't like to think what my mum would say ! :D "£200 on headphones are you crazy ! " :L
 
imo £200 is a waste of money for headphones, some of the highest quality studio grade headphones are in the £100-£150 range and you can get decent headphones for under £100 easily.

Have a look at the beyer dynamic dt880 too if you're prepared to spend £200.
 
The HMV in Canary Wharf have a pair of the studios available to listen to without the batteries in, so you don't get to find out what the noise cancelling is like on them.

I personally was very impressed with the sound on them, and unlike anything I have heard before, but then I have never bought a pair of headphones for more than £20 so my experience of headphones in that sort of price bracket is limited to those.

I have tried a few sennheiser can styles and would probably say that you could get a pair like people have mentioned above that would produce the same quality without the hefty price tag they demand by being endorsed by Dr. Dre.
 
BassPwr said:
imo £200 is a waste of money for headphones, some of the highest quality studio grade headphones are in the £100-£150 range and you can get decent headphones for under £100 easily.

Have a look at the beyer dynamic dt880 too if you're prepared to spend £200.
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£200+ isn't a waste of money for headphones mate, you do get what you pay for most of the time.

I've had sub £100 IEMs before and listened to a lot of top end IEMs and there is a very big difference and now I've got a good set, I could never go sub £100 again.
 
Big Kev said:
£200+ isn't a waste of money for headphones mate, you do get what you pay for most of the time.

I've had sub £100 IEMs before and listened to a lot of top end IEMs and there is a very big difference and now I've got a good set, I could never go sub £100 again.
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IEM's are more cost sensitive then full-size monitors like sennheisers, because the drivers are more complicated and the physical design is much more important.

the difference in quality between a £100 and a £200 pair of IEMs will be more substantial then between a £100 and a £200 pair of full sized headphones.
 
Im a 17 yr old lad, that likes to spend money, but i like to research what i buy before ! , therefore i asked you guy's what ya thought.
 
From experience, it's pretty much impossible to adequately judge headphones and earphones with just a short listen, especially in the case of most IEM style earphones that are being released these days. There are so many factors to take into account, like the fitting and seal in your ear, music source, any external amps being used, the type of music you are playing, your personal preference in sound (do you like a warm, rounded sound, or something more accurate and cold?). Also don't forget that you'll undoubtly experience some sort of 'burn in', where the perceived sound output from your headphones gradually changes over time. Whether this an actual physical change in the sonic characterisitics of your headphones or a merely a change in your perception of these sounds, it nonetheless is a very real phernomenon that needs to be accounted for.

A perfect example of this is my Sennheiser IE8s. I wasn't too impressed when I first listened to them, but days and weeks later, I started to enjoy them more and more. Almost a year down the line, and I wouldn't replace them for anything, they sound that good to my ears, almost like a full set of tweeters, woofers and subs in my ears.
 
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