Does anyone know what kind of audio is in the HTC Rezound? I'm curious as to what makes it a "Beats" phone other than headphones. Like some were discussing a few posts ago, I wonder what DAC is in it and how it compares to the one in the Nexus.
I don't know much about the integration of Beats into HTC phones, so I can't comment on the DAC or anything. But as someone who is studying to become an audio engineer and has worked around and with all different types of pro audio gear, I can tell you a bit about Beats in general.
Beats is awful...from a "everything about this is awful" perspective. The price on the earbuds as well as the cans, awful. The actual sound quality, acoustics, properties, etc...awful. The build quality...especially awful. When I was back up in Jersey I tutored a lot of students at my local community college in sound recording/mixing, and working the recording studio. Beats became a very popular choice for students who were mixing audio, especially with the students who were more interested in hip hop or techno. This was disastrous when they were working on projects, because the headphones themselves give you an extremely false sense what the music ACTUALLY sounds like vs. what they sound in your headphones. They would often mix something that sounded pretty good in their headphones, only to find that when we played the same mix back on actual studio monitors with a flat response, it would be very lacking in low and lower-mid range frequencies.
So, using Beats Audio products in a professional sense, to make/produce music, is a very bad choice. As a consumer product, for just listening, I would also not recommend it. For the same (or even lower) price, you can go into Guitar Center or the like and get a VERY nice pair of either in-ear or over-the-ear professional studio phones by Shure, AKG, Sony, etc. The sound drivers on the Beats aren't any better, they are just EQed very extensively. Consumers notice this when they move from say the Apple earbuds, and it sounds good to them, so they buy into the product.
Not only will you get better sound, but the products from Guitar Center will last you at least a decade if you take good care of them. Beats is very cheaply made with very low quality components. I've never seen a pair of 200 dollar headphones get wrecked so easily. It was actually heartbreaking to see so many kids buy into the Dr. Dre hype, spend all of their money on a Beats product, only to see the wires or the headbands snap halfway through the semester.
(I crack m'self up!)
