STREET by 50 Cent Wired Over-Ear Headphones - Blue by SMS Audio

by SMS Audio

• Professional Studio Sound
• Professionally tuned 40mm driver
• In-line Mic
• Enhanced bass
• Passive Noise Cancellation

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 10 x 10 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B006D8QOCQ
• Item model number: SMS-WD-BLU
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (174 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 24, 2011

Product Description

Color: Blue

Amazon.com

Bring your music with you in luxurious style with STREET by 50 Over-Ear Headphones, designed in collaboration with international recording artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, 50 Cent. These over-the-ear headphones feature a detachable cord for tangle-free street-wear and transport, plus enhanced bass and ultra plush memory foam ear pads to ensure a comfortable ride no matter where your music takes you. STREET by 50 professionally tuned wired headphones are tough, rugged and durable--producing the clearest highs and Enhanced Bass for any genre of music you prefer.

Soft memory foam ear pads for comfortable wear

Custom 40mm Drivers

The custom 40mm driver with professionally-tuned sound signature gives you studio-quality sound for demanding audio applications. The sound signature of STREET by 50 has been professionally engineered to deliver a more pure, uncolored, and balanced sound to ensure you hear your music as the artist originally intended, no matter the genre--from rap to rock, jazz to classical.

Passive Noise Cancellation

The closed-style design of the STREET by 50 provides passive noise cancellation, with soft memory foam cushions that help decrease outside noise and are comfortable for long periods of wear.

Custom 40mm drivers for studio-quality sound. View larger

Tangle-Free Cord with Mic

The tough, tangle-free cord is detachable for easy storage and transport, with a built-in mic for taking calls, so you can switch between your phone contacts and your tunes.

Go Where the Music Takes You

STREET by 50 headphones are ready to go wherever you are, with an included soft drawstring carrying case and adapter for airplane audio jacks. It's a versatile audio solution to enjoy your favorite music anywhere and everywhere.

What's in the Box?

STREET by 50 Headphones, removable cable with mic, soft drawstring carry case, airplane plug adapter, soft touch cleaning cloth, owner's manual, warranty.

Choose Your Style

	SYNC by 50 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones	STREET by 50 Over-Ear Headphones	STREET by 50 In-Ear Headphones
Smartphone Ready:
Wireless (50' Range):
Tangle-Free Cord:
Multiple Colors:
Passive Noise Cancellation:
Memory Foam Cushions:
Carrying Case:
Warranty:	1-year Limited	1-year Limited	1-year Limited

Product Description

Take it to the street. Bring your music with you in luxurious style with STREET by 50 Over-Ear Headphones. Detachable mic cord for tangle free streetwear and transport, plus enhanced bass and ultra plush memory foam earpads ensure a comfortable ride no matter where your music takes you. The STREET by 50 wired headphones feature professionally tuned 40mm driver, professional studio quality sound, high-end styling, enhanced bass, soft memory foam cushions, and passive noise cancellation. The STREET by 50 headphones are currently available in 2 colors: shadow black and phantom blue. Each STREET by 50 over-ear headphone includes: removable cable with mic, carry case (soft), airplane plug adaptor, soft touch cleaning cloth, owners manual, and product brochure. SMS Audio was developed by international recording artist, actor, and philanthropist Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as the next step in the evolution of personal audio technology. More than simply headphones, SMS Audio allows you to experience the power of music on your own terms. Smart, stylish and comfortable, these devices provide you with an escape into the lush world of professionally-tuned, acoustically perfect music...anywhere, anytime, and any way you want to hear it. Beware of counterfeits, only purchase SMS Audio products from Authorized Resellers. Only quality products from Authorized SMS Audio Retailers carry the full SMS Audio warranty.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

91 of 102 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars STREET vs Beats, Round One. Ready, fight... February 22, 2012

By W. C. Bryant VINE™ VOICE

Color Name:Black|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

Length: 2:00 Mins

It's all but impossible, I think, not to draw direct comparisons to Beats Studio by Dr. Dre. The STREET by 50 both benefit and suffer as the result of such a comparison.

Audio Quality (Advantage STREET): Where STREET may lack some of the skull-shaking mid-bass as the Beats, many will see this as an ultimate positive insofar as the trade-off is better reproductive accuracy and clarity. While few will be left wanting in terms of bass, STREET certainly delivers on this front, it seems clear that SMS Audio and 50 were acutely aware of one of the biggest knocks on the 'granddaddy' of this music mogul-inspired/endorsed headphones arena, and sought to directly address it.

Noise Cancellation (Advantage Beats): STREET suffers here in contrast. Beats enjoy battery (AAA) driven active noise cancellation that is immediately apparent and very effective from the moment you turn it on. STREETs passive cancellation just don't hold a candle to it, and the end result is that you're a little less immersed when listening in an otherwise hostile (audio-wise) setting.

Build Quality/Comfort (Advantage Beats): I find this area to be a bit of a wash, though I'll give a slight edge to the Beats for two reasons. (1) The Beats have metal slides that result in much more smooth and precise movement as one opens and/or closes (expands and/or contracts) the size of the headset. (2) The Beats fold into a smaller profile for carrying or storage, STREET does not. They are both comfortable on the ear and around the head, both aesthetically pleasing in their own right.

Packaging/Extras (Advantage Beats): While this is the most minor of minor considerations, some engineer at Monster clearly put serious time and effort into making the packaging on the Beats both luxurious *and* functional in terms of ease of access and use. Everything fit together perfectly, opened easily, and the whole thing just smacked of quality. As my video might suggest (where I fast forward through wrestling the package open even after cutting through the taped points), that's just not the case with the STREET. While the core blue box itself is nice enough, there's just no real comparison. But then, we're talking about packaging that you're going to open and then probably discard, so there's that. There are two points here actually worth making though. The Beats come with a semi-rigid but still small-profile case -- one that serves to both protect and neatly store, and this is (I think) a superior option to the bag that comes with the STREET. Additionally, Beats come with two cables, one with a mic and one without -- STREET simply comes with the one (shown in the video) that has a mic. May not matter to some, may to others.

One might scan through all of this and come to the conclusion that I think the Beats are superior -- the truth is I just think they're different. Even as I give the advantage in more categories to the Beats, I indicated that STREET has the edge in audio quality even when the fare needs that extra mid-bass response because of the improved overall accuracy in audio reproduction. As audio quality is going to take center stage over the likes of packaging, and situationally over noise cancellation -- I really do see STREET coming out on top.

At the end of the day, these are (as the Beats are) a great set of headphones that are really going to impress those in the market for a set of urban-style, durable, high quality, dual-function (listen to music, send and receive calls) phones. True audiophiles need not apply, there are other options out there that will probably be a better fit your needs/bang for your buck (see: Sennheiser, Phiaton, Audio Technica, Grado, Shure, etc.) and so I'm not focusing this review on how they might respond to these (I'm guilty of being a bit of an audiophile myself, but I approach and value headphones like this on their niche (as I see it) purpose).

Great phones, only knocking a star off because the active noise cancellation of the Beats better fits my own preferences. Despite that, I find superior audio reproduction here so at home, these will likely be my go-to headphones. Would absolutely recommend these to others (with the limitations above), particularly those who wanted bass-focused dual-purpose phones but were put off by the 'muddiness' of the Beats.

49 of 55 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I use these daily on my video show. Streets vs Beats September 30, 2012

By J. J. Marino TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Color Name:Black|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

I am the music channel manager for TGN on YouTube. I sit with these cans on my ears for 12 hours per day. They not only are amazing with sound response and ambient noise deadening, they are SUPER comfortable! Sure there is a bit of Beats Vs Streets, I own them both check out my review of the Beats by Dre. Lets go into why I like these better (my beats are first generation and many of the issues I mention might be redundant at this point):

Pros:
+ No battery! I hate that I have to constantly put new batteries in my beats to even be able to hear music. Who's idea was that anyway?
+ Super comfortable (fits my fat head with a gentle pressure at the temples). I wear these all day and I NEVER have muffin ears when I take them off. When I wore beats this long I would get immense pain on my earlobes that persisted for a while.
+ No need for noise cancelling when they muffle sound so well
+ built in Mic works a charm when using this with my phone
+ Amazing build quality

Cons:
- The plug sometimes can come out from the headphone side and you might not get an indication its out, so you end up cranking up the volume only to discover the plug had come out a little. Bleeding ears test complete.

All in all these out perform the First Gen Beats by a mile. I understand the newer Beats probably fixed the issues I mentioned here, but I am only comparing what I own, not a sheet on a website.

Thank you for reading my review!

32 of 38 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, but not for the money March 3, 2012

By Tucast

Color Name:Black|Amazon Verified Purchase

Ok so finally was able to afford a pair. Just got them today and can say I'm impressed with two features the colors black and blue go great( Carolina Panther Fan). Next is the no slip grip that these headphones have compared to my Beats. I looked around for reviews to see if they're worth buying and had read mixed ones all over the place. You can never tell if the company was writing them or a rival one was. Ok so if you care about the packaging wow than these headphones are too manly for you. They have great comfort around my ears and love the mids and trebles. In that category they are better than the beats, but as far as the bass which I love that category goes to the beats. They vibrate my drum. Which is what I look for I'm a bass head. They also don't fold up and 50 may have the money to twist and bend to prove it won't break but I don't and wouldn't advise doing that. All and all a good product I'll be rocking them at the gym and stuff bringing them more publicity and free advertisement but the only reason is because of the great color scheme, but if I could have tested them out I would have been satisfied with the Beats that I have and could have saved money on headphones instead of spending over 400 on headphones just this year. Well hope this review helped.