As a studio musician...
I have two of these, actual studio version of the V6's : SONY MDR 7506
I tried every shitty Dr Beats BS side by side with the MDR 7506's and that Dr Dre shit doesn't even come close to the sound quality of the Sony's.
Yes the beats produce extreme lows, but the mids and highs are so shitty compared to the Sony's.
Google: high end recording studios, they mostly use Sennheiser, AKG and Sony. I never see beats in quality recording studios.
Its all marketing: kids will buy anything a celeb puts their name on. HP is making a mint from this hip hop generation.
Bottom line is... this new mp3 generation is quit stupid.
We went from high quality CD 48khz sampling rates, down to compressed 33.3khz shit to be able to store hundreds of mp3's on a disc or device.
That sacrificed sound quality by squeezing out the clear highs and lush mids, also producing muddy lows.
Decline of quality.