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ever since beats by dre severed its relationship with monster we've been waiting for the company to come out with a new version of its signature headphones the Beats Studio which were released in 2008 and became a cultural phenomenon well this is it the reimagined studio and I have to say it's definitely a better headphone all around for starters the studios are 13% lighter they're more comfortable and more durable with no visible screws on the headband those tiny screws tended to get unscrewed and they were very easy to lose these are active noise-cancelling headphones and they now come equipped with two modes of adaptive noise cancellation according to beats one mode is for music listening and offers balanced adaptive noise canceling between your music and your environment and the other mode is for when you're disconnected and just want to shut out the world for better or worse you do have to have the noise cancellation turned on to use these headphones the integrated lithium rechargeable battery is rated at 20 hours it charges via USB and has a five light LED battery fuel gauge that indicates how much charge it has left there's also an auto on/off feature for automatic shutdown once you unplug the headphones which is nice the headphones come with a standard straight cord as well as one that integrates an Apple friendly remote and microphone so you can make cell phone calls in terms of sound the studio is what I call fast and fun a forward sounding headphone that's exciting to listen to it's not as accurate or natural sounding a headphone is something like the $350 Sennheiser momentum but it delivers on the bass front and comes on strong with the detail in all it's a radically better sounding headphone than the original you do get a faint hiss from the noise canceling and the noise canceling isn't quite on par with the Bose QuietComfort 15 s but you also don't feel the pressure on your ears that you often feel when using noise cancellation headphones that's a good thing so there it is the new reimagined studio available in the white you see here as well as red and black it's hard to say whether it's worth three hundred dollars but it's certainly worth more than the original Beats Studio which also caused three hundred I'm David Carr noise thanks for watching