Dr. Dre’s new “Beats” headphone website

As many of you remember, Dr. Dre announced at CES his partnership with Monster Cable in the development of a hi-end headphone line called Beats. Monster has now gone live with the Dr. Dre/Beats website that give us a little more info, photos and specs about the headphones including what you really get for that $399.95 price tag. Still no word when the headphones will ship, just says Spring 2008. That’s all really. If only a "Detox" album website came with this news. Sorry.   

Dr. Dre’s new “Beats” headphone website

As many of you remember, Dr. Dre announced at CES his partnership with Monster Cable in the development of a hi-end headphone line called Beats. Monster has now gone live with the Dr. Dre/Beats website that give us a little more info, photos and specs about the headphones including what you really get for that $399.95 price tag. Still no word when the headphones will ship, just says Spring 2008. That’s all really. If only a "Detox" album website came with this news. Sorry.   

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Dr. Dre partners with Monster Cable for hi-end headphones

Dr. Dre and Interscope Records Chairman Jimmy Iovine have partnered up with Monster Cable to develop a line of hi-end "state-of-the art" headphones called "Beats." Dre, Iovine and Monster Cable unveiled them at this weekend’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Beats will be available in Spring 2008 for $399.95 and took over two years for Dre and Monster Cable to develop.

Dre stated "When I’m making a track I’m trying to capture the sound that makes me go ‘now THAT’s the sh*t! And I want that reaction from everybody who hears it. I spend a lot of time in the studio listening to my music through headphones…with Beats, people are finally going to hear it the way they should: the way I do."