I purchased my first pair of Beats headphones in 2014: the Dr. Dre Solo HD Headband Headphones. They were so popular on my college campus you would have thought they accompanied admission letters.
Mine were a striking shade of teal, which, at the time, felt cool. After wearing them constantly for years, they fell by the wayside for , which became a near-permanent fixture in my ears. But now, half a decade after trading my sizable Dr.
Dre headphones for , I find myself again drawn to , heralding a new headphone era with the ($279, originally $379), which are on major sale right now, FYI. Ahead, I share everything you need to know about them in case you're contemplating a headphone switch, too. What I love most about the Beats Studio Pro Headphones is how seamlessly they pair with my iPhone — it took just a few seconds to connect them.
You just press and hold the small button on the left-ear side of the headphones for three seconds, and voilà, a prompt appears on your iPhone to connect. The simplicity of this process is hardly surprising, given that Apple owns Beats, but I'd be doing you a disservice not to mention it. Another thing I appreciate is that there are two listening modes: fully-adaptive Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) and Transparency mode.
I'll be honest: I never once tried to use transparency mode on my AirPods, nor did I know it was an option until just recently. Nonetheless, it's super easy to switch between the two with the Beats Studio Pro headphones; you ju.
