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>It's funny how a hobby (hi-fi, audiophile, whatever you want to call it) dominated by white men just happens to get so incensed over something marketed by and
by Grue3 12y ago
>It's funny how a hobby (hi-fi, audiophile, whatever you want to call it) dominated by white men just happens to get so incensed over something marketed by and to the urban crowd.
Isn't peddling overpriced shit to underprivileged (and underinformed) population the actual problem here? You have there a white guy, Jimmy Iovine, selling shit product to poor urban youth, and it's audiophiles who are at fault for exposing this fact?
- icebraining 12y agoThere's nothing to expose. Go show some measurements of the sound quality of Beats vs cheaper brands that those users believe in, and the next day you'll still see them buying Beats. It's not a shit product. You're just unable to appreciate what the buyers see in them.
- JohnBooty 12y agoNearly all headphones and speakers intentionally boost some frequencies and suppress others. Some genres like hip-hop and electronic music sound really good with comically exaggerated bass like that offered by the Beats. Clearly that company is giving some music fans what they want. They're not exactly producing a product I want, but I'm pretty okay with that. I don't feel the need to "expose" them or claim that they "have everybody over a barrel." I just... don't buy them. > You have there a white guy, Jimmy Iovine, selling > shit product to poor urban youth, and it's > audiophiles who are at fault for exposing this fact? Well, I'm not going to look inside your head and tell you what you're thinking. So maybe this doesn't apply to you but in general the negative feelings towards Beats seem to be best summarized as: "oh, we hate this product whose sound and looks are tailored to urban tastes."