“Apple plans to release a pair of high-end over-ear headphones in 2019, to compete with the likes of Bose and Sennheiser,” Dave Smith writes for Business Insider.
“Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was the first to report on Apple’s over-ear headphones back in February 2018,” Smith writes. “In his research note (published via MacRumors), Kuo said Apple’s high-end headphones will be ‘as convenient as AirPods with better sound quality.’ A Bloomberg report from last June said Apple’s over-ear headphones would be separate from the Beats line, and that the company initially planned to release the headphones by the end of 2018, but moved the launch date to early 2019 due to ‘development challenges.'”
“It will be interesting to see if Apple can deliver on the fundamentals, but also go above and beyond to provide a truly different experience,” Smith writes. “Perhaps Apple will borrow a page from the defunct audio company Doppler Labs and let you choose which types of noises you want cancelled, like traffic or trains, while enhancing other types of sounds, like human voices.”
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MacDailyNews Take: it certainly makes sense for the world’s leading headphone maker to offer their own Apple-branded over-ear headphones.
When and if they hit the market, we’d expect them to be premium-sounding and premium-priced. Apple would likely put the hurt on Beats headphone sales, too, not that they’d mind.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TJ” for the heads up.]
Speculation about noise cancelling technology is very wide of the mark when discussing studio quality headphones. It’s two entirely different markets with quite different priorities.
Obviously you can have great sounding headphones which can cancel out extraneous noises, but the sound of true studio grade headphones would be marred by that sort of audio processing.
“Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was the first to report on Apple’s over-ear headphones back in February 2018,” Smith writes.
So, only a couple more years! Can’t wait!
How does it make sense to compete with a brand they own?
Who is stupid enough to down vote a question?
Out yourselves idiots!
I wonder if sound will come out of them they sure as hell can’t make a keyboard that works
If they don’t sound better than Beats, then no thank you.
I have Bowers and Wilkins headphones. Not going downmarket to Beats+.
Beyerdynamic DT250, not a ‘pretty’ headphone, but the sound is excellent and the price not eyewatering…