Beats and HTC to Part Ways
HTC is getting out of the Beats brand
The rumors were true. Beats and HTC are breaking up. Last month there were rumors that Beats wanted to buy back HTC's stake in the audio company and find another investor. Bloomberg today reports that HTC is selling its remaining 24.84 percent stake in Beats Electronics for $265 million.
The deal will apparently net HTC $85 million in pretax profits when it closes in the fourth quarter of this year.
Back in August of 2011, HTC poured $300 million into a deal with Beats Electronics, manufacturer of the hugely popular 'Beats by Dre' audio equipment. Just one year later, in July of 2012, HTC sold half of its 50 percent stake back to Beats. In mid-August, there was talk that Beats was looking to buy out HTC's remaining stake in favor of a new investor that's willing to put up the funds for growth.
The deal will offer HTC, which is facing tough times, a nice injection of cash and frees Beats up to seek another investor. Who will that be? Well, Bloomberg writes that Carlyle Group is coming on board, though it's only with a minority investment. That deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, though financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
Beats was launched in 2009 as part of an effort to improve the quality of audio products being sold today. Iovine, also the CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, said in 2009 that the record industry had allowed music to be degraded and that Beats hoped to change that. "It's one thing to let it get stolen," he told CNet. "It's another to allow it to be degraded because then you really don't have a chance...video games and TV quality are getting better and the quality of our work is getting lower. If that happens, then music will become disposable."
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After trying them, i send them back to the box and kept my "cheapo" Sennheiser CX-300 II.
I say good riddance.
No sound quality or price info on why you hate them? This quote makes you seem like you hate the headphones because of "black people". Choose your wording a little better on the internet. It could make you seem one way when your not.
No sound quality or price info on why you hate them? This quote makes you seem like you hate the headphones because of "black people". Choose your wording a little better on the internet. It could make you seem one way when your not.
Black people are the majority wearing them from my every day observations, I've seen at least 20 black people waring them in the last month alone.
If you thought that was racist, what I said, it's only racist because you made it out to be racist.
This is a comments section, not an article reviewing beat headphones, anyone who uses audiophile headphones should already know beats are garbage trendy fashion products.
I use Audio-Technica, Sennheiser, and Grado headphones, not hyped up inaccurate bass heavy flimsy garbage.
Music degraded because you embraced mp3 compression
Heck.. Even old vinyl record is still better than most of the cds nowadays
If you thought that was racist what I said, it's only racist because you made it out to be racist.
This is a comments section, not an article reviewing beat headphones, anyone who uses audiophile headphones should already know beats are garbage trendy fashion products.
I use Audio-Technica, Sennheisers, Grados, headphones, and not hyped up inaccurate bass heavy flimsy garbage.
Sorry about that bro. I wasn't trying to imply you were racist. If someone used,"Good god, I hate BMW, I always see white people driving them too." It isn't racist to me but kinda unnecessary to discredit something. Again, sorry about that if I offended you. I didn't intend to.
I agree Beats do seem to target black males. My friends hold them to the highest standard when talking about audio quality. I've mentioned a couple of brands you used to them (Sennheisers is the brand I'm rocking right now) for a better sound experience and price. They will learn to hear their music one day. They do love bass though... lol
If you thought that was racist what I said, it's only racist because you made it out to be racist.
This is a comments section, not an article reviewing beat headphones, anyone who uses audiophile headphones should already know beats are garbage trendy fashion products.
I use Audio-Technica, Sennheisers, Grados, headphones, and not hyped up inaccurate bass heavy flimsy garbage.
Sorry about that bro. I wasn't trying to imply you were racist. If someone used,"Good god, I hate BMW, I always see white people driving them too." It isn't racist to me but kinda unnecessary to discredit something. Again, sorry about that if I offended you. I didn't intend to.
I agree Beats do seem to target black males. My friends hold them to the highest standard when talking about audio quality. I've mentioned a couple of brands you used to them (Sennheisers is the brand I'm rocking right now) for a better sound experience and price. They will learn to hear their music one day. They do love bass though... lol
Not offended at all, but people are too sensitive and childish these days about that racial stuff.
Anyways. A good chunk of blacks tend to like the bass, just a cultural thing because they like that type of music, and they are advertised by that Dre guy, I find the whole thing stupid. I like bass in my audio, but when I tried those beat headphones I was like "holy crap, that's to much" and I couldn't hear any details in music very clear at all. The beat headphones also feel incredibly cheap, like 15$ headphones, tacky. I wouldn't have a problem if they sold for like 40 bucks, but 200, 300, hell no! For 300 I'd rather buy a Sennheiser HD 598 or similar.
Funniest thing was when I asked the salesman "Do you have ANY *bad* headphones around here?!" right after being trying some awesome $1000 headphones.
His answer?
"Yeah, we do, Beats."
Speaking of which, the Sol Republic Jax headphones are crap too. Why do people think boosting the hell out of the lows and highs makes music sound good?
Give me a set of headphones with controlled bass, defined mids, and crisp highs any day. Beats and Sol Republic belong in the trash can.
Pretty much. What may sound "good' is subjective to the individual.
and then merge with monster cable.