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I keep hearing people ragging on Beats, and Bose, but what is actually so bad about them other than the price range? I messed around with some Companion 3's at work the other day and thought they sounded fairly good (they seem pretty well built too). I wouldn't pay £249.99 for them personally (I could buy an Amplifier and Floorstanders for a similar price), but going by what some people say about them I was expecting budget quality to the likes of Asda £34.99 bargain bin speakers and I actually thought they sounded good after all I had heard people rip on them. They sounded better than the Samsung Soundbar+Wireless Subwoofer package which we have going for the same price.

you can buy an hd600 for roughly the same price, that's probably why. they are priced like high end phones, but don't sound like them.

but yes there are other plenty bad options out there, like soundbars. but honestly you cannot compare speakers to headphones as speaker sound quality costs a lot more compared to headphones

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Yes, 7.1. I have G930 Headset, it works great and sounds like a real surround setup. Does is support 24 bit 192Khz? No, but who cares, it sounds great to me and offers me more than a L/R headset.

have you actually used a decent pair of l/r phones? quality l/r headphones will offer far better sq and more accurate imaging. surround sound is impossible on headphones, as already discussed in this thread, since it is dependent on speaker placement which is impossible on headphones.
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Yes, 7.1. I have G930 Headset, it works great and sounds like a real surround setup. Does is support 24 bit 192Khz? No, but who cares, it sounds great to me and offers me more than a L/R headset.

have both g930 and sennheiser hd 558, the sound positioning (ie footsteps) is just the same if not better with the 558.
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you can buy an hd600 for roughly the same price, that's probably why. they are priced like high end phones, but don't sound like them.
but yes there are other plenty bad options out there, like soundbars. but honestly you cannot compare speakers to headphones as speaker sound quality costs a lot more compared to headphones

 

In that particular instance I was actually talking about the speakers (Companion 3's). Although in general it was more about the companies.

 

Out of interest, what price range do you think the Companion 3's should sit in? What would you deem them to be worth? Here they're about £250. I think they'd be worth £150 but no more. What's your opinion of the price range you think they should fit in.

 

This is a general question to all users, but please only answer this question if you have extensively tested/used them.

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