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I remember spending my first paycheck on beats back in high school. My dad asked me how much I paid and when I told him he wanted to try them. He then proceeded to make me listen to these old ass headphones he's had for 20 years and they murdered the beats. I wanted to return the damn things after that
@@fireskul6613 if you want really damn good sounding headphones that haven't ever really been updated in technology the Koss Porta Pro headphones designed for the walkman are an insane value for cheap
One day you'll have the money and maybe you'll spend it on a pair of headphones you love. At least you'll know better than buying the Chinese slave factory garbage.
Tech reviewers in 2015: professional sets and 10,000$ cameras Tech reviewers in 2021: aussie man smashes plastic duck with anvil while yelling at headphones
Tbf I think everybody knows them by the last 3 letters/number, so when this happens 13:22, nobody not even their mothers are gonna call them by full name but X Mark 2/3/4.
I’ve always disliked bass enhancement headphones, even though bass is my favorite flavor. Mostly cause they’re marketed towards people who don’t understand sound stage, over priced and garbage build quality. Basically, beats lol.
@Gabriel Gledhill there are some headphones made to have rattle sound keeping every detail, the drawbacks is a pleasing and very dynamic sound with great stage, but it's nothing flat. Believe me i had a pair that had that coloured sound when you can hear every little detail, but when Mixing it's trash, completely... You end up not boosting the bass but enhancing wrong frequencies.
@Gabriel Gledhill Eq adds distortion and you are making the driver do more work, i wouldnt exactly call the hd600 the best thing ever, even with eq. Eq cant fix everything guys.
These guys ruined my early days into audiophile stuff. I wanted to get serious about headphones and when Beats first launched back then, I completely bought into the hype as a kid. Absolutely hounded my mother into buying them. Maybe these are a bit better than the first gen ones, but they were a complete disappointment for the money and I swore off any expensive headphones ever since. Dank is actually the person to get me back into spending more than 10$ for some headphones. Also the design and even crack of the hinges sounds identical to mine from 2013- I seriously dont think they've updated them at all.
Beats were better when they were still partnered with Monster. Monster supplied the speakers for the Beats. After Beats By Dre ended their partnership with Monster in 2012, it just went downhill from there.
Exactly. Their brand representation was really good. Fooled me when I was a kid too. No matter how hard I tried to believe that it's worth the price it just doesn't. Hell even some knockoff appears to be better sometimes because of the value u can get for low price
@@donairechristianpThat’s an interesting take considering the general consensus is that Beats improved when they started making their own stuff in-house without Monster Cable’s assistance and after Apple acquired them years ago.
You don't even have to use headphones to be an audiophile a good pair of earphones works great too like mine that came with my phone an AKG usually AKG makes very good open back headphones because they ARE the pioneers of openback headphones and let me just say the earphone works as if you're using a headphone
I've been using a Sony DR-BTN200 [another catchy moniker] since the early 2010s. No noise cancelling, and the battery still gives me most of the 30 hours play time it started with. Fit is great, build quality is top-notch, and the sound is better than what the price suggested.
I know what you mean, and I had a similar thought. But then I thought - hang on. It's not that the shittiness of products like the Beats is acceptable. Rather the inability of expensive jewellery to do anything other than attract burglars is unacceptable.
Charging $450 for plastic costume jewelry is still thought of as theft in the jewelry world. Beats are shit and a good way to advertise ignorance. Beats are an understandable purchase for the ill informed purchase of a preteen trying to look cool with parents money, but nothing more.
@@R9000 Jewelry holds value longer than used electronics. And Jewelry goes out of price point FAST. At the very least, some people really do enjoy the look of certain gems, but if that look can be recreated by synthetic means than it shouldn't matter. Gold and gems should be used in far more useful applications, like conduction or sharpening stones or something. People wearing jewelry if it can be a recreated look with fake is really really dumb as well as a bad investment. Designer electronics even more so.
After seeing this I went and bought the Sonys, and I love them. I had to EQ them to get better top end, but I love how they sound. My home office faces a busy road, and with these on I barely notice it. And the case is awesome too!
Same here. Got them for christmas about a year ago. I had beats, but the earpads were falling apart and I wanted to get these. Great headphones for the price, just need a bit of tweaking on the eq.
@@Illegal_man-gi5gp Well, I had solid gold/platinum/diamond-jewelry in my mind. I don't think that rusting, wind erosion or warping is such a big concern in those realms of high-end jewelry but I could be wrong ^^ On second thought, discoloration of the metals/stones (when exposed to the elements) could be a thing there
yep, SOLID POINT. 🤣I got beats X and the flex, really just enjoy how they look for the most part. Have to say, beats flex is really convenient tho, with its auto pause function.
Wow, felt weird seeing the headphones I was using to listen to this pop up. My only complaint with the WH-1000X model i've got is that the touch controls can't be turned off and they sometimes get activated by random things or even the cold, and that makes them *CALL* people in my contacts... Yeah, not fun! It hasn't lead to anything all that bad though, and since these have basically single-handedly saved my peace of mind every day for a couple of years (I have misophonia) I can't imagine getting any other ones. It's noise cancelling all the way, baby.
The touch panel can be turned off in the app. I do understand if you haven't noticed it, however; it's buried deep into the fourth slide menu where you change languages.
I have turned the touch controls off. I am pretty annoyed with not having any controls on them, but they were so bad... Every time I adjusted them they paused the music.
Holy shit, I’ve been looking for any video about the Sony’s wh-1000xm4s made by You and was never able to find any. This time I click on random video, that I’ve yet to watch and boom, there they are.
@@mistressofbats And not all ears are pointing up. Thank god the WH-1000XM3s are pointed a bit backwards, since my ears point back a bit like those of an elf
@@justforgetshine not the point. It's the fact that people who wear these types of brands tend to overpay, not for the sound but to "look cool". That's what makes them douchebags. It's just kinda ignorant
Keep in mind the Sony xm4s have a entire EQ system in their app so you can change bass, high end, just every bit of sound. God I love these headphones. No joke worn them everyday all day since the day they came out. No major wear, no problems, no connection problems. For the call for the perfect headphones these are it for me.
Can we just appreciate this dude he has three music degrees he teaches children about music and he comes on here and yells at us about how awesome iPods are😂
Yes, because iPods are awesome and good sounding (most of them), well designed, easy to use and a blessing more than ever in the age of always-online tech. There will always be people who despise mass market stuff and invest large sums into more exclusive devices that are "better" (like me with my audio setup, oops), but per se I don't think there's anything wrong with iPods.
pretty sure he talks about teaching in the past tense. He prob makes more on RU-vid then he would teaching public school especially if Australia pays their teachers as bad as most of the USA does
Honestly something I appreciate from the perspective of a new viewer. Lord knows how many times I watched a video from someone who I've never watched before and they start the video with "So as you remember from my last video.." or something along the lines that and I'm just like *no, I've never even heard of you before, please just get to the thing* Every video you make is someone's first video, and presentation trumps all, and Dank holds both those aces
I owned a set of Beats Wireless and they were my daily driver for a couple of years, you're right, they're perfectly mediocre. Once I switched to a decent pair of studio headphones I was blown away by how much better they sounded. Also they cost me less than half what the Beats did.
I work at Best Buy, I know little to nothing when it comes to headphones, I mostly like watching dankpods just cause he's hilarious but I'm also learning! And every time I find out some overpriced product (such as beats) are not as high quality as they like to make people think I get all smug. Also, Sony and Sennheiser are our most popular and highly reccomended headphones in store, I had a guy a few weeks ago who'd gotten a pair sennheisers, they wore out and we didn't have the same ones so he got some beats instead, came back a week later saying he hated the beats and we ordered the same sennheisers for him. One of our headphone guys also reccomends sony over bose or beats for affordable but also high quality headphones. We live in Canada so the price is super inflated in relation to the US price, but I recently got some Sony 710s and I think they're the best headphones I've had, I spent $90 on them with employee discount and on sale, they're usually $250 which as much as I like them, I wouldn't pay *that much* for them, so seeing dankpods endorse Sony, even if they're not the exact ones I have, feels very nice.
Raycon and beats marketing team : let's make a catchy and trendy product name so more people will buy our product Sony marketing team: *Smashes keyboard* Yeah that'll do
Sony could absolutely kill it if they actually marketed their headphones effectively. They look nice and trendy and are within the same price range as the mediocre beats.
Except Razer Krakens are literally their budget headset. That's like saying "craig" and "nugget" shouldn't be in the same sentence Edit: my phone thinks RAZR and razer are the same
Beats are quite simply a scam. They spend hundreds of times on advertising what they spend in their products. A 50 dollar value set of headphones sold for 500. A scam. Not surprised, since it's Apple (seriously, those guys charge three or four times what their phones cost to produce).
Apples phone are actually expensive af to make because they insist on using cutting edge technology for everything when there is no reason to. Shit like using parts that cost ten times as much as what most companies would use because they allow the phone to be a tenth of a millimeter thinner without making the case thinner. And using the worlds fastest and most power efficient mobile chips, but locking down the OS so you can't use the speed, and using tiny batteries so you don't even gain battery life from the advanced technology. They are the main driving force behind most of the advancements in semiconductor design because they insist on having the worlds best technology no matter the cost, and regardless of if it actually allows them to make a better product. The new Macbooks are the only products they have ever made that actually benefit from this technology. Other than the original iPod, I guess.
I bought the XM4s on Black Friday last year after my buddy were praising the XM3s to hell and back, and I needed a new pair of wireless headphones for work. Yeah, the touch controls are iffy and act weird, but overall, I do not regret buying these.
@@musicmaniac505 haha Don't let those reviewers or other people influence you too hard, need to learn this myself, I you want to like something THAN LIKE IT! I mean, I'm sure it's a great product nonetheless, so just enjoy it for the time you are using it and just in general be grateful for the things you can afford or get as a gift
@@musicmaniac505 As someone who also really enjoyed the Beats sound profile, you 100% won't regret the Sony purchase, especially as far as sound goes. The normal eq isn't the greatest, but customize it a bit (look up how people did theirs online) and it sounds mindblowingly amazing for someone who's never had it before
I used to work in retail at a well know fruit stand… When we got Beats in the store I cannot describe how much I hated them. They sounded terrible but moreover we had to replace at least one set a week for how often the hinges would snap. During high seasons even more often than that. Wasn’t hard but I loathed how often I had to deal with replacing them. I think inventory blew thru more of them for our floor units than we sold. 🤣
I have those OG Beats Studio, they were really nice, really great, when I got them they were $199. However, Grado are better, and monitor ones are much better...and my ear cups began to peel as well...
*Insert obligatory "But Proto..." line here* Yeah, back when Monster owned the brand, they were better. Especially the Studios (even though they still are focused on bass). Sadly by the end of the Monster era and in the current Apple era they have become a joke in the audiophile community and music lovers alike. What I find funny is that my Galaxy Buds sound better than my old Beats Solos. They lasted me quite a while before I sold them on eBay. I liked using them but i sweat a lot during high school and I sweat VERY easily and the plastic rubber glued on head band that sits on my hair comes off easily and kept doing RMAs on them. I honestly should have asked for Sony's but because Beats were super popular in the 2000's and early 2010's that I kept asking for them for Christmas. I know better nowadays and know that next time I buy nice headphones. I'll definitely find those old AKGs or even Grados. (Seeing how I have the Galaxy Buds G1 and Corsair Void Pro RGB Wireless for Gaming, i might not throw money on headphones anytime soon.)
I personally love my XM4's, they're convenient and versatile, they're great to take to the office in huge part because of the carrying case. I remember buying them almost on impulse one day during a break at the office. Now I'm getting some Grados sr80s to have some more balanced stay at home headphones to compliment the Sony's
I use beats solos that I bought back in 2010, and honestly I still like them. Yeah, I probably got them because they were trendy back then, and I was a teenager, but honestly they have held up pretty well. I’ve had no issues at all and they are still my main headphones after twelve years.
By the way, I’m not speaking for the headphones that are reviewed in this video. I don’t know what they are like or how long they will last, I’m just talking about my personal experience with the brand.
I remembered a few years ago when asked for a Christmas present, the only viable options from the catalogue was a pair of Beats and a pair of Momentum 2.0 On-Ear headphones from old buddy Senn. You bet I took the Sennies mate, they're amazing! I still use those suckers to this day before Momentum delved into Bluetooth Earbuds and whatnot.
I have a pair of XM4s and I absolutely love them. Only pain is that my right swivel mount ended up breaking so the right cup dangles wherever it wants. Sometimes when I want to enjoy music past my AirPods I’ll use a headband around the right cup, it’s goofy but it works. Incredible audio
From my experience it is a Japanese thing. The guitar brand "Ibanez" is a really good example for that. The naming system makes sense if you are familiar with the brand.
My first pair I got of Beats I got for my birthday one year. They were a nice pair of the full metal Executives. They lasted maybe a year before the speakers went out. Luckily we had the Best Buy replacement thing. And boy was it a shock to my family when the only replacements available were all plastic and absolutely cheap. Those plastic ones lasted six months and I went through two pairs of those before we decided to screw that and switched for a pair of Bose instead. And those ones lasted much longer and sounded 10x better.
There's something gratifying about hearing praise for a product in the same line as one you own... like you accidentally made a good choice that is quantified by someone who knows the math instead of just bein like "it sounds good".
LOL. I got the studio 3s. I still love em and they have worked perfect for over two years after using them 10 hours plus ever single night. I like those Sony's a lot though and will probably be what I get next.
@@20TonChop I wish my Studio 3 experience was as good as yours. They snapped just after the warranty ended. (so barely over a year of use) They weren't dropped or anything and I barely traveled with them, but one time when I tried to fold them the hinge just broke. They've been broken for a while now but I think I'm going to try to glue them back together.
I get it, we all want that thumping bass that we feel on concerts or at the clubs when we really want to feel the music (with a prominent bass). The thing is, even though essentially all of the electronic music that intentionally have so much focus on bass do crank up the bass/sub compared to other genres, the methods used to achieve balance on regular listening devices at home is with other techniques than just boosting the bass even more. Think of the kick drum on a set, it has a low thump and resonates higher up on the spectrum at the same time, which we percieve as punchy when done right. If you remove the top end from a kick drum it will sound more like listening to a heartbeat. So a lot of the time in bassy electronic music they often have the bass have some top end as well, and tease you with not having much of a bass or a kick until the drop where the contrast to the previous sections will make it sound way louder, and then they also use things like sidechaining so that the kick can punch through the bass (making the bass quieter or silent all together) as our brains basically will percieve the bass as continuous even though it actually sounds more like putting your fingers in your ears when the kick is supposed to hit if you listen to the bass with sidechain alone. Additionally, cranking up the bass might seem like a good idea in general, but our ears tend to compress sounds to not get overwhelmed. If you accidentally put play on a song on a late night dance club level of volume you won't be ready for it (similar to shining sunlight in your eyes when you've been in a very dark room, takes time to adjust) AND that we tend to sort of make an "average" calculation of the sound as a whole with the ear's compression. It's not that the mids or high end aren't there, even when you crank it up a bit, but when the ear adjusts to you turning up the volume it will still not make the mids or highs clearer as it's "averaged out" in a way. Sub is slightly different story, while at the clubs and concerts you will feel the low vibrations throughout your body, and that's a fun experience I agree, but they have to crank up the volume to seriously harmful levels to our ears to get that effect without it sounding like a mess of a rumbly "BRLGRLRLHGHRLGH"-bass and no other frequencies. If you want that sensation at home while also being able to hear the music, maybe try the SubPac, which is a "backpack" that you put on to feel the vibrations of the music in your body. I don't know too much about it, but I've heard at least one person using it and saying it's alright. Additionally the company says that it can be used to enhance VR-experience and things like that (which might be true, but it's a super steep price for what I assume is kinda unrefined technology.
you could have known you are going to waste your money before you bought those. its beast. beats sucks ass. Bluetooth audio sucks ass. you literally screwed yourself over. for half the money you could have actual studio headphones. people can be so ignorant is unbelievable.
Had them years ago as my first over ears and thought they were amazing. Then I got the Sony xm3's and was utterly blown away.. Some time ago I got a pair of used HD 599's and was again blown away by how much better sound can be. Especially considering I only paid the equivalent of a modestly thirsty evening in the pub for them. Now I ordered hd600's and an amp/dac from fiio. I hope that wasn't a mistake. I already feel like Stan in that one episode of southpark were everything looks and sounds like shit to him. Edit: I guess I'll just have to live with a dac strapped to my phone from now on. It has become quite an obession to find all the little details in every tune I find.
@@zenniz1992 that's definitely on my list. I wanted to make sure it's not the amp clouding the experience. So right now I use a fiio q3 which I attached with a sp connect mount to my phone, as I already used that system to attach it to my bike
@@YoureUsingWordsIncorrectly hm sadly yes i have. i get it though, i love my ipad and iphone and airpods but more out of a convenience standpoint than them being an apple product. would i trade in my 770 pros with dekoni earpads for beats? nah would i buy a mac? hell nah
tbh props to sony for making their app useable with a very adjustable soundstage with the EQ, when I first got the xm4s I was a little miffed at the sound quality but soon realised I just had to tune the headphones to my ears (im quite deaf as I am also a drummer) and can now confidently say I 100% recommend the xm4s granted you also have a phone that supports the LDAC codec. hope these 2 cents help people. good vid either way my lad
I had a Studio pair between either 2016 or 2017 and 2019. Mom got them for me as a gift (don't remember if it was for Christmas or my birthday). I thought they were pretty good, as the headphones I had up to that point were inexpensive and didn't last long. The noise canceling was also a plus, as I have sensory issues (particularly with sound) and I could just drown out my surroundings with my choice of music. That said, I had some issues with the Beats and my opinion of them wasn't that high in the first place. The noise canceling was becoming less effective at some point, the ear pads were leaving blue residue (it got especially bad when I was sweating; couple Queensland's climate with a body that's better suited for a cooler environment, and you have a recipe for disaster) and they started peeling (gotta love that cheap faux-leather). I put up with it because I didn't really have the money for anything better (particularly in 2019, as I was going to a university at the time) and I knew little about good headphones. I got the Bose QuietComfort 35 II as a replacement. They're still going strong, though the pads are also starting to peel.
What I learned about beats, is that you’re buying the logo and design , that’s it. Kind of like buying a purse or hand bag from a reputable brand, visatchi, gucci, madden. You could easily buy a bag or a pair of headphones hand crafted, but a famous label is gonna sell much more than someone offering the same thing for a fraction of the price, with a different logo. Similarly- Apple vs Microsoft.
I have the xm5 and it's great, and I even liked the touch controls! I love how when I think someone called my name I can just put my hand on the touch pad to hear everything going on.
All my peers had Beats by Dre, I use Sennheisers, my current model is the Momentum M2, they can work wired or Bluetooth, and when wired you turn them on for noise cancelling and amplification of your source. Plus extremely durable!
I've got these headphones and I agree, they sound super bassoverkill *out of the box,* however! After much playing around I've found that setting the in app EQ to [0~ 1+ 7+ 7+ 9+] does wonders! Thing that really messed me up trying to make them sound more full and bright was I kept lowering the EQ but that just made it worse. I also like setting clearbass to 3+ (sooometimes 10+ with electric music) but that's just me. ALSO if you have Dolby Atmos I highly highly recommend setting it to either Movie or Voice, either of those modes really take this to the next level and substantially improve any remaining muddiness left over after EQ.
Solo Pros, Powerbeats Pro, Beats Studio Buds and the new Beats fit pro all actually sound great. They are well tuned and are all headphones made from the ground up by apple. These and the solo 3s definitely feel their age
Depends. Typically popping in knuckles and most muscles in joints is caused by the popping of air bubbles in the joints that build up after a short period of time. But there can be other natural causes. For example my wrists and shoulders will make cracking noise every single time I twist them a certain way because they developed in an odd way where the bones will clack together. So there are natural explanations for popping.
I actually have an old pair of Beats headphones, one of the first ones, that my dad bought with a massive discount while on a trip. Basically, I preferred my Sony mdr-zx110 (no noise reduction or bluetooth, just a wire) because they felt more comfortable. I remember saying to my dad that after wearing the Beats for about 5 minutes my ears were screaming.
Bruh, I use those $20 Sony headphones and they're easily the best budget headphones ever. Nah man, these things sound like $10 Onn branded Walmart garbage.
I’ve owned 2 pairs of beats and honestly it’s one of the larger regrets of my life. Once before Apple bought them and once after. Trash. Both broke in the same spot while simply flipping them open. And I’m not talkin like a proper flip, I was just casually opening them from the folded position and they absolutely split. About 3 months out of each pair before they went to shit
@@maxihax2187 did you did you think I didn't know that?? beats is the company, not actual beat of the music. beats has lots of bass therefore the joke make total sense and I can't believe I had to fucking explain it.
Every time I see someone on campus wearing Beats, they're wearing them with the band going around the back of their head instead of sitting on top of their head. I think it's really sweet how inclusive my school is to the mentally disabled
I've seen lots and lots of bootlegs Beats by Dre literally sold on the side of the street for less than $10, I've seen them so much i started associating the actual Beats with cheap knockoffs lmao.
Friend bought a knockoff back in the day, was like 50. They honestly didn't look or sound different. Never understood why people walked around with those cheap looking things.
@@nequastar1826 Straight up, some magazine did a teardown of Beats Solos vs a knockoff and the bill of materials was like one dollar different. And going by all the identical plastic moulding they were most likely made in the same factory.
To be fair, Beats at least have the quality to be considered $200 wireless headphones... they are like twice the price... mainly due to marketing... You are paying for the ads and the fancier looking box...
DankPods is the only channel I enjoy watching. He is the first person I ever supported on Patreon and every time he uploads its honestly just a joy to watch when I'm working on stuff. DankPods If your reading this keep up the good work my man.
Hey man if you are really interested in audio have a look at z reviews that dude is also pretty amazing although he's a bit more for the audio knowledgeable and curses a bit more but his vids are really fun although on the long side sometimes
When I was in high school I used to beg my dad for the Beats all the time. He never bought them but he instead fixed up a pair of old Sony headphones for me and damn they sounded AMAZING. EARGASMS ALL DAY EVERYDAY. I eventually got Beats as a gift from a friend and I only used them as like An accessory and stuck to dad's old ass Sony headphones
I have some Soundcore headphones and they’re actually pretty amazing for the price. They cost no where near the Sony’s or the Beats but when I wanted to sleep after I had surgery, the only way I could sleep was to put them on and turn the noise cancelling on with nothing playing (and hospitals are insanely loud places, regardless of the time).