the beats arent really that bad. notably overpriced but the reality is in my experience that all headphones have really bad frequency response that needs EQ taming and shaping. buy them for their distortion / resolution and the shape the response after. i have yet to see many headphones with even +/- 3db from 200hz to 8khz that dont experience sharp falloff outsode that range. even some sennheisers barely have +/- 5db in that frequency range... so i think if you want headphones to sound right u gotta track down a frequency response graph and smooth it out (at least the major issues), and then apply a sharp parametric cut at the frequency where the headphone and your ear canal form a resonance by listening to frequency sweeps.