Stephan Mejias reported on the $200 Beats by Dr. Dre in a recent issue of TAS. Even though he liked the hipness and fashion factors of the Beats, he admitted that they were bass-heavy, veiled, and murky sounding. That's inexcusable for a $200 headphone. I suspect that anyone looking for traditional audiophile values such as linearity, dynamics, and realistic tonal balance, the $79 Grado SR60i's would be far more satisfying. For $200 you should be able to get any number of headphones that would knock your socks off by comparison.
