The HTC Sensation XE was launched early last month, following on from the news in August of HTC partnering with the Dr Dre
Beats audio company to produce HTC handsets with unprecedented audio abilities, with a reported sizable investment from the Taiwanese mobile phone outfit.
Not exact matches
Apple already sells
Beats Electronics gear in its stores, giving the
company insights into how much the trendy headphones and other
audio equipment appeal to its customers.
You can't fault a
company for keeping a good thing going, but the
audio world hasn't stood still during the years of
Beats» success, and the new Solos will need to live up to their «wireless remastered» tagline to validate their existence.
As you probably know, thanks to
companies like
Beats, studio and home
audio headphones lines are blurred now, and my job is to try to find the products that will make the most people happy, right out of the box, for the best price.
Beats Audio: Apple's devices have generally received good feedback for their
audio and the
company has its own wireless earphones, AirPods, which it sells separately for $ 159.
The
company is expected to employ
Beats Audio technology in the speaker, which could have a concave Mac Pro-like design with
audio and other controls at the concave top.
HTC 8X has integrated
Beats Audio chip and this time the
company also packed an amplifier to improve the
audio output.
It has all the right components — we particularly like the sound of the diminutive Raumfeld One S — and it exploits Sonos» bigggest weakness by supporting high - resolution
audio (although Yamaha
beats both
companies on that score by supporting DSD streaming on its higher - end MusicCast components).
Last year Apple introduced
audio support through the Lightning port, while Phillips
beat the competition to become the first
company to release headphones that connect through that port — the Fidelio M2L.
For Apple, its iPhone and
Beats brand awareness is already huge in both the mobile and headphone spaces, and its recent expansion into the smart home speaker market is only going to improve this profile as a leading
audio company further.
It offers multiple speakers and
audio - streaming capabalities.Apple may have bought
Beats Audio, but that hasn't stopped the
company that created
Beats» original headphones... Read more
The latest
Beats Studio model will likely offer a similarly bass - forward sound to previous generations of
Beats headphones, a sound signature that has dominated the
audio world in the decade since the
company first launched.
When Apple made it's $ 3 billion purchase of headphone maker
Beats in 2014, its founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre joined the
company as executives, overseeing the Apple Music and
Beats 1
audio services.
Apple's AirPods and
Beats headphones are getting some fresh competition from one of the biggest
audio companies in the game.
However, should Apple decide to go the bundling route instead with the iPhone 7, the
company probably will focus just on
audio quality through its
Beats acquisition and wireless freedom.