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Beats By Dre Solo HD Review (New Color Smartie Blue)

2012-07-13
hey it's your average consumer I just want to let you guys know that this channel was made with the average consumer in mind all right let's get to another tech video it was going on if you want to traverse consumer today I'm going to be doing a review for you guys on the new beat solo HDS the smarty blue ones and hey let's not waste any time let's get right into it alright guys so here we have the solo HDS in the new smarty blue color but before we get into this let's talk about the traveling case there's a pretty nice traveling case um it's soft but it does have a good amount of padding on both sides to protect it from inium damage and when you open it up you have enough space for your headphones as well as a little pouch here to put your cable or any other accessories that you wish to include in there and on the side you also get this little arm strap where you can put your hand in and carry it like this personally I like to clip it on I like to unclip it and get it onto my bookbag straps and then just kind of have a hanging through on there and it makes traveling with it a lot like really easy not that these are our hearts have fun to travel with due to how small they are they're really small and it makes it really easy to you know move around with them they're really compact when you fold them in it's easy I find it easy to put in my pocket and I can just go like that but I don't want it you know my jeans rubbing on or anything like that so it's just really easy to walk around with and it's very you know travel friendly and they're so small that I feel that girls and guys can wear this without any problems like they won't look obnoxious waiting like it would indeed lashes on a girl wearing these it wouldn't look wear anything like that because they're so small pretty cool and because they're so small that makes these um on ear headphones so these don't cut around your ears they code directly on it which I actually prefer over over your headphones because I like listen I like when songs have a lot of bass and I can feel the bass by like the headphone vibrating online years I I feel like it's a better experience like that and of course not everyone agrees a lot of people I know like over your headphones but if that's one of the pluses I seated this being on ear headphone like an on-ear pair of headphones um now since we're still talking about like the looks and stuff the smarting blue is really great I like the new colors that beads have has placed on young solo HDS I would have liked to had the metallic blue I really like that or the sour apple I saw those but I when I first saw the colored I really wanted to go for these but on retrospect I really liked those other ones too and one thing that you'll notice when looking at these is that since beats and monster parted ways you can't find a logo of monster anywhere on that phones usually they were placed right up top here but now they're gone and I'll show you with my beats Wireless right here that all you can see the monster logo here I'll show you guys a close-up and here you can see the monster logo right here is no longer on the solo HD so this is just straight beats for all those on monster haters out there well there's no more monster involved it's just beats and that's what you get now you can't find any image of monster on the box the headphone moves anywhere so it's like they never existed and since we still have the Beach Wireless here I'll give you guys a little idea of how much bigger the ear cups are compared to the solo HDS as you can see here it kind of divorced it a bit you see about let me zoom in as you can see guys the solo HDS are much smaller than the beats Wireless and I got this is really what made me what caught me off-guard sometimes I forget that the wireless are big are bigger and you can see you can see that this completely overlaps it so these are really small and you know like I said very compact and that these now come with the new control talk cable that has like a little oval design it no longer has let me pull out the old one here for you so here you guys have a close-up of what the old design from the control talk' were used to look like and what it currently looks like now so this is pretty nice you get the volume controls and the play and pause button in the middle now for the iPhone all of these buttons work volume and the play and pause all that but for HT phone HTC phones and blackberries and things like that the only button that'll work is the play and pause button so just be aware of that when purchasing views all right so now kind of want to talk about durability of these headphones now on their videos out there that you know have stress tests where they come in like then the headphones and you can see how much the headphones can handle before they snap well these do a pretty good job not snapping I know that it has a reputation of snapping I guess when they were just solos now that they're solely HD is I know they come with a reinforced band where you know it doesn't snap so easily and you know really give them props for that I've seen people do like a roll like a 180 and that means like a straight line and it not in a snap at all I don't suggest trying that yourself I really don't so but you know if there are videos out there so you can see that this isn't going to just snap on you easily now you know of course these won't snap but there are other little things that no come into play when it comes to durability are the band up here for some reason with a lot of use back now back with my old pair and I can tell with these as well this isn't really like it's not like a stitched in there or anything like that so it doesn't completely come out it uses an adhesive like a kind of glue and after a while with a lot of use these little on this band can come out and you know the internals can get exposed a bit which is really not not a really good thing at all it really disappointed me when I first you know used solely these for a while I thought something was wrong with my pair and no it have I have the best buy insurance so I was able to go in and you know switch it out for a new pair and it happened a couple of times after a while you kind of just get used to it but you shouldn't have to get used to that it really sucks so that's just something to keep in mind this little thing can come apart but um outside of that everything else is fine um see I don't think the ear cup the ear cups never really gave me any trouble at all I know you can take these off I believe but um I've never you know had issues with that but um yeah that's as far as durability goes it is really strong the band's great a not only problem was this little piece up here coming off sometimes and showing the insides that's the only little problem I have as far as durability so now I know you guys are wondering about the sound quality and I also know that these have been getting a lot of slack as far as on people saying that these don't have produced the greatest sound or that you know sometimes it's muddy but I all I think that it all depends on your level of experience with sound if you're a professional or you know someone who knows about you know sounds and headphones and things like that then yeah you'll probably feel that way but like I said for your average person your average consumer who goes out there and purchases their first pair of high-end headphones you're going to like these I know my experience was that when I first got these I love the sound quality I really like the bass and how strong it was and nobody could tell me that the sound quality wasn't great I really liked it and my friend like I have friends who I recommended these two as their first pair of on ear headphones I mean high-end headphones and they really like to sound quality as well so I really think that it all depends on your level of experience with sound and anyone cool going for their first pair definitely go for it if you're interested in the solo HDS I'm not going to stop you and tell you there aren't like you know it's not good are there better options yeah sure are you going to start like as your first pair of headphones are you going to be blown away by these probably so if you're interested in them go for it of course there's always going to be better options I think that's pretty much it guys I think that these have good enough sound quality for our first pair of um high-end headphones for anyone and I really feel that you know the build is good it looks great you know beats always looks great um I like these headphones I really do they were my first pair of um high-end headphones I really enjoyed my experience with them which you know got me into the whole Bede's thing I definitely would recommend you to anyone who was looking for their first pair of high-end headphones like I said before you know it looks great the only thing I really have a concern about is the padding at the top as it does sometimes come off it's easy to put back on but it's annoying it really gets frustrating that you have to really keep pushing it back on and it seems like they're not they don't use a strong enough glue but overall I do like these and I wouldn't change my experience with them at all and pretty much that's it guys if you have any more questions about them please feel free to leave a comment below and I'll definitely get back to you so if you guys like this video please feel free to rate comment subscribe favorite share put it on Twitter to everything I don't know but if you liked it please you know just show you support somehow and pretty much that's all there is to it guys on this is your average consumer and these are the solo HD is in the new smarty blue also I'll be giving these headphones away actually so stay tuned for the giveaway video or look out for it on my channel if it's already up and pretty much that's all there is to it guys I appreciate you watching and I'll see you guys in the next video until next time peace
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