Is It True That Beats By Dre Are The Best Headphones You Can Get

Which Beats By Dr. Dre headphones have the most bass?

If you mention Beats, any person who has a decent understanding of audio will steer you away. Quality over quantity of bass is always the ideal way to go. Bass should blend, not overpower. Not to mention you can get better headphones with good bass quality for a lot less. Look at AKG, Sennheiser and Grado. Wearing headphones like that will gain you a lot more respeCt among the audio community. You will never see Beats in a studio and I wouldn't trust an engineer who thinks they’re good. My AKG K240s can be had for $70 and they are better than any beats headphones.Beats are also made with pretty low quality plastic and weak hinges. You’re paying for a name and marketing.

What is the cheapest place to buy Beats by Dre headphones?

If you don't mind a secondhand pair of Beats, follow this procedure. Buy a Grado SR60e, walk up to someone with the Beats, look disdainful and hand them the Grados. Then, when they're blown over by the superior sound of the Grados, tell them you'll swap if they want. If they are too deaf to appreciate the superior sound of the Grados, look around for the next Beats listener. Since most Beats listeners turn up their headphones to pump up the bass, you might have to repeat the procedure a couple of times before you have success.You can't lose, really, because if you keep failing, you'll have the Grados. Who knows, you might come to your senses and prefer the Grados to headphones worn only by sheeple.

Are Beats by Dre headphones worth buying?

Worth it if you want the social status that comes with them, which is polarizing and heavy on identity signaling, relative to other headphones.If you think they look good, which it sounds like you do, and you like the idea of how other people would view you, as the kind of person who buys and wears Beats headphones, then they're worth it.As an audio product alone, they are not the best headphone for the money. Beats have a hyped low-end with a steep rolloff, and a bigger dip in the upper frequencies. Not the most accurate headphone, by design.Here are some illustrative charts:You can do your own comparisons here: http://www.headphone.com/pages/b...This is not to say that Beats are not a good headphone. They are definitely a good sounding headphone. But Beats is ultimately a marketing company, not a headphone design company. The original technology came from Monster (see: Beat By Dre: The Exclusive Inside Story of How Monster Lost the World), who themselves are really an accessories/marketing company known for overpriced cables, not speakers or headphones.Beats headphones are good enough for their market. There would be no sense in them investing lots of resources in additional engineering to yield marginal improvements that their market doesn't care about. The reality is that most of the sonic differences in headphones at this level are pointless for people that are not working on music production or extreme audiophiles in a pristine listening environment. This is not what Beats is trying to be. They're a mass-market headphone that people can take with them.By comparison, there are many engineering companies that have been refining headphone designs for sonic performance, across a spectrum of price points, for decades, e.g. AKG, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, just to name a few.If audio performance per dollar is the core metric, Beats are not the best option. Buy them if you value the other qualities they bring to the table.

How do you spot fake Beats by Dre Tour headphones on eBay?

If they're for sale on ebay, lower than the retail price and not from an authorized dealer, you can assume something is up. Sorry, your find of a 50% off "factory direct clearance" is too good to be true.If you're still not sure, add in strange overseas locations, poor communication, bad explinations about how they have the deal and you've got a clear flag.Simply put, it's hard to get a large quantity of a legitimate product that's carefully distributed & sold at a "recommended" price (it's illegal to price control store in most places but not to stop selling to them). Thus if it seems to good to be true, it likely is.