How much are beats headphones and the sound?

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.

+1 on what Mofimadness says - Beats are unlistenable boom and sizzle. My 30+ year old AKG K240 headphones absolutely blow them away.

Coincidentally, I just came from getting some work done to my car. While I was waiting I read the 'Music' issue of ESPN sports magazine that had an article about Lebron James, Dr. Dre, and the Beats headphones. I didn't know James is a investor/partner. The article made a good point how these things are comparable to Jordan sneakers as far as being the 'fad' of our time! These things sold like 50k units the 1st year and 500k the next! A quote from the article from Dre: "F**k sneakers, let's make headphones!" As previous posters have said, the sound quality sux for the money. Plus counterfeits are everywhere. These are phones for people that don't know any better!

They we as expensive as Bose QC-15 and not as good.

they're made by monster.