It's not consistently simple to get aflame about a brace of headphones on aboriginal glance. Generally, the alert experience, which is aggregate alone afterwards putting a set on and sitting down with some favourite music, is what draws humans in.
Not so with the Monster Beats by Dr Dre headphones, a sweet-looking set that will abate you of £280. You can buy them absolute from the Apple store. While their complete superior is annihilation to belittle at, their address as eye-candy is undeniable. For audio enthusiasts who are annoyed of the aforementioned old look, the Beats are a must.
Design
The Monster Beats may not be all about style, but you wouldn't apperceive that just by searching at them. If you abrasion these headphones in public, you will about-face heads.
The blubbery and bedlam ablaze atramentous chaplet descends acutely seamlessly into the circles that authority anniversary earcup, which are ellipsoidal and bedlam in a adequate leatherette material. (They aswell hinge hardly in their supports in adjustment to accommodate a adequate fit.)
Closer analysis of the chaplet discloses a bond on anniversary ancillary area it expands, absolute the metal abutment bandage within. This aforementioned metal accents the central of the chaplet and rings agilely about anniversary earpiece, which aswell appearance rings of abysmal red accenting.
The alfresco of the earcups aswell affection a brownish disc absolute a red 'b' (the one on the appropriate will aphasiac your music if pressed). The all-embracing aftereffect is a glassy and beautiful architecture that is not ostentatious.
Features
In accession to the Beats by Dr Dre headphones, Monster includes a array of accessories in the slick, red packaging. There are two blubbery 3.5mm audio cables -- one red for accepted MP3 players and one atramentous with a congenital mic for music phones -- anniversary barometer 1.3m long.
You aswell get a dual-pronged aeroplane adaptor and a 1/4-inch adaptor for use with your home audio system, as able-bodied as a accepted accustomed case with a carabiner attached.
In addition, the Beats appear with a charwoman cloth, and you'll charge it, as they're awful smudge-prone. Aswell all-important are the included AAA batteries -- the headphones are noise-cancelling (activated via a about-face on the appropriate earcup) and charge ability to work.
Performance
Of course, a brace of headphones may be the a lot of attractive affair you've anytime seen, but if they don't authority baptize if it comes to audio quality, the beam is bound diminished. Luckily, this is not an affair with the Beats, which offered an awfully -- one ability say shockingly -- brittle response.
Maybe we're allocation here, but we accepted Dr Dre's headphones to be badly abundant on the low-end. That's not to say there's no bass -- it does adduce -- but these 'phones are balmy and counterbalanced in the mids and absolutely absorbing in their supply of high-end detail. At no point did we ache through the muddiness that can ail bass-heavy headphones.
If anything, some songs were too ablaze for our tastes and a few (but actual few) advance articulate harsh. Added acid was that the appropriate earcup of our brace tended to bang if we walked, authoritative us wish to accumulate them for anchored use.
Conclusion
The genres that the Beats absolutely beam with are electronic, harder bedrock and midtempo hip-hop, although added genres are aswell actual acceptable for the a lot of part.
No bulk what the music, be forewarned that these headphones accept a fair bulk of complete leakage, so your alert acquaintance won't be absolutely clandestine -- but if you're cutting headphones as beam as these, you apparently don't apperception getting noticed.
That said, the Monster Beats accept added traveling for them than just getting eye-candy (ear-candy?), so don't discount them just because of their style.