Beats Audio is...

[nullity]

what is it?

I'm watching movies right now on a "Beats" equipped laptop.  I've gone between high-end Infinity earbuds, high-end Sony studio monitor headphones, and $5 trash cans. I've noticed one thing, and one thing only.

The volume is capable of being louder than I'm accustomed to from non-beats laptops/PCs, 3DS, smartphones, etc...

The thing is, there's still the white noise hiss. Damn that hiss.

Do studios need to be reprimanded for using inferior equipment and introducing the hiss at the master level?  Do I just need to listen to it all louder for long enough to damage the hiss right out of my earholes?

I never heard this hiss with my HK receiver and SVS audio system back when I had a home theater, but stupid me sold it all off.  Did the irresponsible thing of choosing family over toys. hahah

Does anyone else have any experience/thoughts about Beats? Are my expectations too high, or is Beats nothing more than an amp to boost the dB levels with a software front-end to apply some cheap eq mods?

[esteban]

Beats is the new Blast Processing marketing fuzzywhump 

[GohanX]

Pretty much.

Beats main business is making headphones, but the name got big and they license it to to other electronics makers. For things like laptops, the manufacturer is basically just buying the marketing term, on a laptop it's literally just a equalizer setting.

I've never been a fan of their headphones. First of all, they are really expensive, and the sound quality isn't that great. It overemphasizes bass, and does a poor job with anything else, so it's really only good for rap music, rock sounds awful on it. $80 Sennheisers sound a lot better than $300 Beats headphones. f*ck, I have a set of cheap $20 Philips cans that sound better for most types of music.

[SignOfZeta]

I'm not a serious audiophile or anything, but I do care about music to the extent that I have thousands of records and CDs and my headphones and stereo equipment is "nice".

So, keeping that in mind, to me, personally, the idea that anyone would take any laptop seriously from an audio perspective is ridiculous, whether or not it's manufacturers sent Dr. Dre a licensing fee. Unless you have an outboard DAC, probably with its own power supply, laptop sound is pretty much always going to suck.

[Joe Redifer]

The only thing I know is that Dr. Dre has something to do with it. I'm beginning to believe that Dr. Dre is not exactly an authority in audio quality. I'm even beginning to become suspicious of Dr. Dre's Phd. I don't think he's actually a doctor.

[turboswimbz]

The only thing I know is that Dr. Dre has something to do with it. I'm beginning to believe that Dr. Dre is not exactly an authority in audio quality. I'm even beginning to become suspicious of Dr. Dre's Phd. I don't think he's actually a doctor.

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