{"id":2259,"date":"2014-05-09T22:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2014-05-09T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T22:55:53","slug":"expensive-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"Expensive Headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com has an article on several expensive headphones, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/05\/most-expensive-headphones\/\">9 of the World\u2019s Most Outrageously Expensive Headphones<\/a>, some are $5,500 ??<\/p>\n<p>It has got me puzzled why consumer grade headphones are expensive, after all they are 2 speakers, a headband, and a chord. It was announced this week that Apple will be buying Beats for $3.4b (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/world-business\/apple-set-to-buy-beats-electronics-in-34b-deal-reports-20140509-37z11.html\">SMH article<\/a>) !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com has an article on several expensive headphones, 9 of the World\u2019s Most Outrageously Expensive Headphones, some are $5,500 ?? It has got me puzzled <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"entry-more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2259\" class=\"entry-more-link entry-more-link-excerpt btn btn-primary\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}