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Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - vision63 - 05-09-2014
deckeda wrote:
With Jimmy Iovine's vast industry connections (and his power) I suppose the service had attractive agreements with more artists than some other services?
Other than that, I can't imagine why anyone would want to sell Beats headphones. They pretty much suck, although they will forever be justifiably known for spearheading the "better headphone" resurgence that's taken the audio world by storm the last few years.
$$$$, that's why. It's "all" about money. Nothing else. Not even a little bit else. Not even a scintilla, fragment else. Beats by Dre, prints money.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - graylocks - 05-09-2014
maybe they are buying beats to take them off the market and free the audio landscape from the scourge. Apple - using their billions for the greater good.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - sekker - 05-09-2014
graylocks wrote:
maybe they are buying beats to take them off the market and free the audio landscape from the scourge. Apple - using their billions for the greater good.
Awesome! I wish...
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - macphanatic - 05-09-2014
Which phone manufacturer has Beats Audio?
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - mrbigstuff - 05-09-2014
macphanatic wrote:
Which phone manufacturer has Beats Audio?
HTC does. Perhaps others do, too, I don't know.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - vision63 - 05-09-2014
macphanatic wrote:
Which phone manufacturer has Beats Audio?
Used to be HTC. They just released a Harmon Kardon edition HTC One M8. Comes with HK headphones and you can buy an HK $400 HK bluetooth speaker for $100. And it's already got the front facing BoomSound speakers. Bomb phone. http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one-m8-harman-kardon/
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - ka jowct - 05-09-2014
Lew Zealand wrote:
[quote=jdc]
Is it bad (or wrong?) that I only associate beats with thugs and hoodlums?
Yes. You should in fact associate it with poor quality audio reproduction.
My impression of those headphones is that they are not designed for natural, accurate sound. Right or wrong?
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - deckeda - 05-09-2014
ka jowct wrote:
[quote=Lew Zealand]
[quote=jdc]
Is it bad (or wrong?) that I only associate beats with thugs and hoodlums?
Yes. You should in fact associate it with poor quality audio reproduction.
My impression of those headphones is that they are not designed for natural, accurate sound. Right or wrong?
Right.
They are status symbols, but not just of fashion, but false symbols of good sound.
That said, I'm a subjectivist when it comes to music and music reproduction; there are no "facts" that can "prove" a certain technology for example, "must" sound better. It's for that belief that notions of A-B or A-B-X sound tests aren't just irrelevant scientifically, but are far worse: they "prove" whatever the test is set up to do (which is usually something other than what any conclusions drawn reveal.)
So if/when a listener prefers Beats headphones it doesn't "make them wrong" in my view ... but I reserve the right to question what experience they have with such things as live, un-amplified music or music that's not heavily dependent on processed special effects.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - The Grim Ninja - 05-09-2014
If Apple only bought them for the subscription service, perhaps they'll sell the headphones to someone else.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - silvarios - 05-09-2014
jdc wrote:
Is it bad (or wrong?) that I only associate beats with thugs and hoodlums?
edit: the photo gizmodo used:
Yes, it is wrong. Do you have a definition of thugs and hoodlum that fits the actual dictionary text, or do you simply mean a specific type of young man?