REAL Vs FAKE Monster Beat Solo's HD: Here Is How To Tell A Real From A Fake
After Buying a set of Studio's I went and purchased a set of Monster Beat Solo's HD from a shop,
as i did not no they where fake, as they are a very genuine shop with a good track record.
But once again it was my carelessness that led me to
purchase at a very good price. Being enticed with a very much reduced price
as, the original retail price of £179.99, so for this I made the purchase.
However I found out that it was a fake pair after a day or two i noticed the insided
on the headphone's it had two (L) symbols but i just thought hay they had them fixed
but after a bit of digging as i said they was fake, after returning them to the shop there
was no problem with getting a refund, who I have given
the benefit of the doubt and believe that they was not aware that the previous seller
had been sold them with imitation fake's.
I then went to purchase a set from HMV.
With both the real and fake Monster Beat Solo's
HD, I decided to do some side by side comparisons for you and here is what i got.
The product on the left is always the ORIGINAL, while the product on the right is always the IMITATION.
as i did not no they where fake, as they are a very genuine shop with a good track record.
But once again it was my carelessness that led me to
purchase at a very good price. Being enticed with a very much reduced price
as, the original retail price of £179.99, so for this I made the purchase.
However I found out that it was a fake pair after a day or two i noticed the insided
on the headphone's it had two (L) symbols but i just thought hay they had them fixed
but after a bit of digging as i said they was fake, after returning them to the shop there
was no problem with getting a refund, who I have given
the benefit of the doubt and believe that they was not aware that the previous seller
had been sold them with imitation fake's.
I then went to purchase a set from HMV.
With both the real and fake Monster Beat Solo's
HD, I decided to do some side by side comparisons for you and here is what i got.
The product on the left is always the ORIGINAL, while the product on the right is always the IMITATION.
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Once again starting with the front cover, the imitation is very good as it does have the "tm" (trademark) sign next to the word "solo" and does have it next to the word "dre" on the left side of the box, you can notice in the picture that the imitation box is darker than the real dr dre's everything else was the same as the real ones.
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At the back of the box, you can see that the pictures of the headphone's
are different. The imitation's are bigger than the real one's. Then there's
also the writting above the headphone's are completly diffrent, the barcode and the writting on the right of the imitation's are not ment to be there and the big complete diffrence is that on the real box if you can see on the right corner there is a tab that you can open up on the back if you was opening a book that's what the real box has got that the fake's don't have.
are different. The imitation's are bigger than the real one's. Then there's
also the writting above the headphone's are completly diffrent, the barcode and the writting on the right of the imitation's are not ment to be there and the big complete diffrence is that on the real box if you can see on the right corner there is a tab that you can open up on the back if you was opening a book that's what the real box has got that the fake's don't have.
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On the side of the box, it is obvious that the picture on the imitation's are not ment to be there as I said in the picture above the bit of the tab you open up this is where the picture of the imitation's are ment to be not on the side of the box as you can see from the real box it has the language's instead, and finally the real pair has the barcode located on the bottom not on the back of the box.
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Very clearly different, the printing of dr dre on the fake is generally much
darker and is alot bigger, you can't see his neck area very well. His neck is clearer on the real box. As you can see from the picture the imitation's do not have any writting under dr dre's head also you can see the font that is used on the imitation's are completly diffrent from the real type.
darker and is alot bigger, you can't see his neck area very well. His neck is clearer on the real box. As you can see from the picture the imitation's do not have any writting under dr dre's head also you can see the font that is used on the imitation's are completly diffrent from the real type.
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2 diffrent thing's with this picture is that the real box has another barcode in the top left hand corner and the imitation's do not also you may need to click on the picture to see but the imitation's box is that bit bigger and on the top right corner of the imitation's you can see that it does'nt finish flush with the box.
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The only thing's that was diffrent from each other is the colour of the red with the imitation's it is darker than the real box and that the imitation's box is a bitter taller than the real box.
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With the real book you can see that it is a lot thicker than the imitation and does not have written on it (quick start guide and warranty), also you can see the diffrence with the cloth as the real cloth is bigger, lighter and has a stiching around it as the imitation cloth does not have this and is a darker red, the real pair you get two extra bit's of white paper work as you can see in the top left corner you do get that little bit of paper from the imitation as it's under the bigger bit's of paper.
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Straight away you see the writting is wrtten in diffrent way's as the real end of the cable has it written around the end and the imitation has it written in a up straight way, where the red touches the black on both cable's you can see the two black end's are diffrent.
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Again with the cable's the colour as you can see in the picture that the real cable is darker than the imitation as that is lighter also with the real pair you get a second cable with the talk control but you don't with the imitation pair.
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As you can see from the picture that the real case is bigger and it had a better feel to it than the imitation case, the beat's letter "b" on the imitation case more look's like a (6) than a "b" and i don't no if you can see it in the picture the colour around the "b" on the real case is darker than the imitation
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As with the 2 case's you can see that the real case on the left is a diffrent materal and you can see that it has alastic attached to it all so when I was looking as these 2 case's that the real case is more oval.
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With this photo I wanted to show that withe the real pair of solo's is you get a serial sticker on them located just above the earphone as you can see with the real pair but as my finger is in the way you can not see that the fake pair does not but i can say it did not have one and with the fake pair you can see towards the top of the headband part the rubber is sort of hanging off so be carefull to spot that when buying Solo's.
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In this photo I had to flip it on my computer as i took them the wrong way around as you can tell with the letter's on the headphones (L) & (R) sorry, so the headphone's with the (R) letter is the real pair but the fake pair it has another (L) on the headphone's so that was what made me looking that up to see if the pair had brought was a fake pair of Dr Dre's.
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I had noticed that the silver ring around the earphone's was diffrent as the real pair the silver ring is more of a black colour as the fake pair the ring on them was silver might just see that in the picture.
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Another big thing with fake Dr Dre's is that the B logo on the headphone's are completly diffrent as the real pair the logo is made of a very nice metal and the B is painted but with the fake pair the B logo is just a sticker and all so you can see that the red in both B's are diffrent.
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Final and last thing is the fake pair the ear cup can be removed as the real pair the ear cup can not be removed so just check this before buying this is a big give a way to spot a fake pair.
COMPARISON OF THE HEADPHONES.
To be fair the headphone's are almost identical in look's but the differences lie in the
material's.The case's are diffrent the sleeve's of boxe's are diffrent the logo on the headphone's and there's more as you have seen.To be
extremely honest, even the sound quality is quite close but when listening to the fair pair the right earphone's quality of sound was more tiny as the left eaphone did sound very close to the real thing otherwise if the right earphone did not sound weak and as good as the left earphone i wouldnt of noticed anything and would of not had looked them up to see if they was fake's.
The point of this comparison is to simply
create awareness on how excellent fake's have grown to
become and will be become even more harder to notice a fake pair to a genuine pair of Dr Dre's. Please be careful when making purchase's. When a deal is too good to be true, it usually is.
If you are still not sure if your Beat's are real then head over to the Beat'S Serial Check Page to be sure,
hope this has helped
material's.The case's are diffrent the sleeve's of boxe's are diffrent the logo on the headphone's and there's more as you have seen.To be
extremely honest, even the sound quality is quite close but when listening to the fair pair the right earphone's quality of sound was more tiny as the left eaphone did sound very close to the real thing otherwise if the right earphone did not sound weak and as good as the left earphone i wouldnt of noticed anything and would of not had looked them up to see if they was fake's.
The point of this comparison is to simply
create awareness on how excellent fake's have grown to
become and will be become even more harder to notice a fake pair to a genuine pair of Dr Dre's. Please be careful when making purchase's. When a deal is too good to be true, it usually is.
If you are still not sure if your Beat's are real then head over to the Beat'S Serial Check Page to be sure,
hope this has helped