ckc:
sbiddle: Japan City at Westfield Queensgate sells "Beats" in-ear buds for (from memory) $9.95 complete with really good knockoff packaging.

I wonder if anybody could actually tell the difference in sound quality between them and the real thing? smile


Yeah,  they'd think the knockoffs sounded better. They'd say, hey, my music isn't drowned in bass.


Completely agree, besides the marketing hype the sound quality is arse compared to lesser priced quality brands.
I recently borrowed a set of the beats studio to run for a day and see what all the owners raving was about.  Apart from all the over tweaked bass, nothing else was really flash enough to justify the 600 odd he paid.
We shot down to hardly normal (surprise they were having a sale) and ran through the selection they had.  3-4 of those were of a greater performance......