Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro vs Beats Pro (2010)

While the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro wasn't able to make it to the very top of any roundups from sources that perform quality hands-on testing, it still got featured in a large number of them. Headfonics, Head-fi, SoundGuys, Rtings, PCmag, musicradar.com, and Android Central have all deemed it worthy of a place on their respective shortlists.

Moving on to the Beats Pro (2010): it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like CNET, HomeTheaterReview.com, What Hi-Fi?, Laptop Mag, Head-fi, and Tom's Guide, enough for them to include them on those lists.

We also performed a thorough Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro vs. Beats Pro (2010) review score analysis - it turns out that all of the sources that have tested both Open-Back Headphones, including Head-fi, preferred the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro over the Beats Pro (2010).

Out of all the sources that reviewed them, the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro turned out to be most loved by Headfonics, which gave it a score of 8.6, whereas the Beats Pro (2010) got its highest, 8.3, rating from reviewers at CNET.

Finally, we compared their average scores to all other Open-Back Headphones on the market. We found that the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro got reviewed considerably better than most of its competitors - it earned an average of 8.3, compared to the 7.8 out of 10 overall rating of other Open-Back Headphones - while the Beats Pro (2010) performed worse than most of its competition, with an average score of 6.8.