Ferrari or Lambo, can't remember which one but the one that requires a transmission overhaul every 20,000 miles. Also the Ferrari 599 for having a timing belt instead of the more reliable timing chain. Such high end cars, such low reliability. Is there any excuse? They do sound and look great I'll give them that. But there are other cars that sound and look great and are fast with much better reliability for example Corvette, Dodge Viper, etc. I won't list them all. So I ask again, is there any excuse for the poor reliability in some high end makes and models?
I remember reading how poor some of the 80s Ferraris were, needing complete engine overhauls every 10k miles or something (although not sure if that's really true or not, cars in general mostly sucked in the 70s and 80s).
bose are not garbage, but they are a complicated company.
first, they make military and professional hardware; their aviation noise-cancelling headphones are astounding.. at a price.
their directional-sound-based, reflecting no-speaker tv is a very nice piece of engineering, and some of their high end speakers are excellent, BUT overpriced.
their consumer level stuff is between shit and decent, but always overpriced because see above - they are an expensive brand, and they overcharge because they have a name.
tbh i like the pride they take in their brand .. i still wouldn't buy one of their products, because they are pro-level priced, but "luxury-consumer" built.
Yeah they do a lot more than audio and that's a very different nature. Their consumer stuff is pretty meh and largely overpriced.
Their speakers are not very good, they basically made their name with their 901s or whatever that they made back in like the 70s (which kicked off their "let's bounce sound off the walls craze that dominates their stuff now). Even those are kinda overrated and their surround systems are garbage. Plus their stuff that bounces sound now aren't good either, it's just that people act amazed at sound working like that.
Their consumer headphones are...well they're the best noise cancelling ones you can buy, but the build quality isn't great (there's one model that has a really cheap small plastic headband that's very prone to breaking, and basically the cost is to subsidize replacements which they're fairly generous about supposedly) and the sound quality is just passable for when you need noise cancellation or mediocre otherwise. But the comfort and noise cancellation make them pretty good for planes and other noisy environments.
Beats headphones. Holy crap. Most headphones over $150 should not be able to be driven from a smartphone amplifier. For them to make $300 headphones that "don't" need to be driven by an amp is proof that they are crap.
Oh, and I tried them on at Best Buy. $200 pair. They sound worse than I thought was possible. They are literally worth about $30.
It's not difficult to make a very efficient but still good sounding headphone that a smartphone or quality portable player could drive plenty well. I don't think they market anything about them not needing amps so don't even know what you're going on about there. In fact, depending on the model they actually have amps in them (I believe the main Beats headphones they started with required batteries as it actually runs through an amp circuit, that's also used for noise cancellation). These days the need for dedicated headphone amps is less than ever really, although there's still a lot that really need one to shine (and all will generally improve some). Well there's some that you'd pretty much need but those are stuff like electrostats or orthos that aren't really widely popular. Point is there's plenty of headphones that sound decent right out of players/smartphones. Quite a few are priced right in line with Beats too.
That's not to say Beats are good quality, they're mostly not, but have improved quite a bit in the past year or two (although I think that's less due to anything they actively did and more that the cheap headphone drivers improved across the board). Their IEMs weren't too bad other than a massive sub-bass tilt (I actually liked the Turbines I had several years back, they made portable play good as you didn't need a perfect seal to get good amounts of bass for pretty much every genre, and it was sub bass so it didn't muddle the mids too much, and because they were BA based ones they were fairly detailed and speedy too, wish I still had them actually).
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