Headphones

Fixin to order the Dr Dre Solo :catvery-happy:

Yeah just because a product is hot with a"name" doesn’t mean that they are best. I will stick with my no name not cool name products as long as the quality is there.

This is funny!

I will see a few bazillion people at work and there are tons that have on this brand…guess they bought the hype and think they are cooool.

Went to the stereo store to buy headphones this weekend for the 13 year old daughter.  The Sony brand which looked exactly like the Beats brand  without the b logo- Sony $45, Beats $190.  Asked the sales guy what the feature differences were since neither were wireless.  He said there is none – both same sound, again neither noise canceling at that price (those are $340+ for beats).  Had us listen to music with both- yep, same sound.

Teen  daughter – "Mom you would be crazy to get the Beats.  Buy me the Sony."

Mom – Hahhh… moment I realized something smart has soaked in over the years.  ;0

I am very HSN loyal, but this hype I can’t take the leap on.

High definition (high resolution) audio IS a thing. Similar to HD video, the audio is stored with higher bit rates, so more information is present than with non-HD files which are compressed, removing bits of data that are supposedly out of range of human hearing. FLAC and WAV are two common formats for HD audio.  MP3 is not HD.

Whether you can tell the difference, and whether you want to buy into the HD formats and players and headphones, is up to you to determine and decide.

I have to hand it to them though – making everybody buy into the hype, that takes some skills. I was observing a young girl demanding these in a store "but Mooooom, everybody has these!" I laughed – yeah right little brat, you need $200 headphones…. NOT!