Comments on: Beats by Dre Headphones

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:01:48 +0000

Haven’t tried them either but one thing you got to keep in mind is that with $300 headphones you most very probably need a portable amp to run them. the beats have a built in amp that run on 2 AAA batteries.

By: sar

sar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:54:26 +0000

Well, I wasnt really comparing any specific grados, since i dont really know a lot about them. just wanted to know if spending $300 on grados would be better than spending the same on the beats. but if grados lack bass, then its beats for me.

What about the sennheisers i mentioned? ive read a lot of good reviews about them, and sennheiser 595 is a lot cheaper as well.
and about the beats; any idea how much they cost here? i ask because electronics generally tend to be more expensive here than in the US.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:15:09 +0000

Which Grados are you comparing to? I haven’t tried the grados but from what i read, they mostly lack bass but are pretty accurate. The Beats are not very accurate but more fun to listen to.

By: sar

sar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:13:08 +0000

is there anyone who can tell me wether any Grados (in the same price range) are really better than the beats? ive tried the beats on and theyre awesome, but ive also heard that Grado headphones are good aswell.

also if anyone could tell me wether the sennheiser 595s or 600s are as good (or better) than the beats? (i know that the sennheisers are cheaper, but do they actually sound better?)

By: brandon

brandon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:31:33 +0000

Picked up these headphones. They are pretty awesome definitely comparable to 1000’s without question. Mind you, my girlfriend works @ future shop so I got a $120 discount. Very good seperation, comfort and quality.

By: ananymous

ananymous — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:09:11 +0000

Try the beats out at a local best-buy, they are amazing headphones though, i’m hoping to get a pair.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:43:54 +0000

These drephones are the best headphones I’ve ever used. I got the drephones like 2 weeks ago and it’s like being in the studio. Drephones allow me to hear all of these new sounds. I can almost hear Lil’ Wayne zip up his fly in the bathroom while Baby records his verse. Unreal. GO DREPHONES!

By: So Deep it Hurts!!

So Deep it Hurts!! — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:11:52 +0000

has anyone compared the difference between a cheap HDMI cable and a Monster Cable.

By: blaketr0n

blaketr0n — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:14:31 +0000

well ive used these headphones and i think there worth every penny. im gunna get some myself, i work in retail and have tried a vast range of headphones and not even sennheiser or shures that ive tried come even close to beats. they are simply amazing

By: DirectorDave

DirectorDave — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:30:21 +0000

I think a selling point for Beats by Dre is that it’s featured in all the new high-profile music videos. So people can have the luxury of having the same headphones you see all the artists use in their videos.

I’m actually about to shoot a music video for a certain RnB artist and am considering getting a sponsorship from them. I’ll keep the headphones though. ;)

By: jake

jake — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:23:52 +0000

Its great to see you guys haggle about headphones that you have not even heard. Get your hands on the Beats, they are now available at Al Ghanim. They rock, one of the sweetest things i have head in ages.

By: nic

nic — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:12:53 +0000

anyone that knows about headphones knows “Grado”… not PIoneer, or Monster or any of those subpar piles.
Any REAL Audiophile will say Grado before you even finish asking which is the best headphone in the market. A $70 S60 Grado will outperform 99% of headphones in the $200 range and a $200 Grado will outperform everything left over…. a $400 Grado is juts heaven on earth.

By: K.I.A. Beatz

K.I.A. Beatz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:25:59 +0000

i am a small producer with only a couple artist and i like to do most of my mixing through head phones but with most head phones im not able to do so and get and accurate mix. each pair of headphones has a different sound. Dre’s new Beats are made specifically for makeing beats. they are designed so you dont have to continuaslly change between listening through monitors and headphones. these arnt designed for use with an ipod even though they could be used for personal listening purposes. MP3s that you listen to on your ipod are already in a low sound quality. for what i do i would easily pay $400 for these and i am not rich. how much your willing to pay depends on what you are using them for.

Sound quality can be many differant thing such as the bit depth and sample rate but quality headphones for me gives me a flat uncolored sound that i can rely upon in a mix.

By: Yousef

Yousef — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:23:44 +0000

heheh OK can I get your view on what sound quality is on headphones?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:01:08 +0000

Yousef just because a headphone costs a lot doesn’t mean the sound quality is good. Like one reader mentioned above he tried $500 Bose speakers and they turned out to be crap. I also showed you a pair of $70 Grado’s that have better sound quality then a lot of +$100 headphones.

Price doesn’t matter.

And I agree that you have different requirements in headphones but all I said were the requirements you mentioned as sound quality were not related to sound quality.

Loud headphones doesn’t mean good sound quality
Expensive headphones doesn’t mean good sound quality
Bose headphones doesn’t mean good sound quality
This DJ uses these headphones doesn’t mean good sound quality
Sound isolating headphones doesn’t mean good sound quality

Anyway if you listened to the best $400 headphones in the market directly from your iPod I will guarantee you it will probably be the shittiest sounding thing you would probably hear and thats because once you get into the fairly decent headphones they all require to be pre-amped meaning you connect your ipod to a little amp and the little amp will power the headphones. You need to check the impedance, if the headphone has high impedance which the majority of good quality headphones have they won’t run properly. It would be as if you get 200watt speakers and power them up with a 20watt amp. Check the impedance, its usually recommended for ipods not to go higher then 32 but the Sennheiser HD600 for example is 300ohms so if those were the pair you tried they would have sounded crap. Your Pioneers on the other hand are 40ohms which is just slightly over the recommended.