No linear frequency response, bass-emphasized, not a true and authentic reproduction.
Now I have had a number of headphones: Sennheiser HD 598, AKG, Beyerdynamic, Koss Porta Pro to just to name a few.
Out of curiosity, now just bought the Beats Solo HD and my first impression: great design, elaborate packaging, processing decent, pleasant sitting without hot ears, but at low volume levels, it sounds dull as a 30 Euro headphones.
Once you make it louder, but this will change abruptly, the beats and enjoy plenty of it.
Now we are no longer in the 80s where you had an analog turntable, a precursor, a power amplifier, and a high-quality pair of speakers, just in front of it sat and sat beschallen frontal, authentic like a live concert.
The music comes today from MP3, the speakers are 7.1 surround with subwoofer and it tinkers an integrated amplifier, true to the original is there any longer, the violinist is no longer sitting on the stage left me, he is suddenly left me.
Is that bad? Well with Hifi it has little to do, but as long as it is a pleasure, it is the basic care.
Why should it be different today for headphones? Headphones of today no longer need to be worthy of the honor, to create a linear sound reproduction, it must now mainly be fun.
In this sense, the beats suited to the present time and I would recommend it for people who want to hear a bit louder, the efficiency of the Beats is outstanding, at an I-Pod he is so loud that you can turn on him not quite ,
He is great on the go, then you will also see it, for at home I would the Sennheiser HD 598 prefer because my tube amp easily hums and beats the hum transmits extremely strong, even my Samsung TV is booming, can not stand the beats, the signal must be clean, otherwise will not enjoy that, the Sennheiser forgive such things.
In a fit of beatsmanic I now have my still the Beats Studio fetched, which is but leave me again, too much pressure, hot ears, uncomfortable. The Solo HD's okay, I'll keep him.
