Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “AKG K702 Review: Comfy Headphones!”.
Hey, what’s up guys my PhD here and every once in a while, you got to switch it up, which is exactly what I’m doing with headphones again, trying a new pair every once in a while – and this is the most recent pair I gave a shot. These are the AKG K. 702. I promised I didn’t pick him up just because of red and black, although that definitely helped. I picked them up because they already kind of have a great reputation. This whole k7 series already has all great reviews and people seem to love them.
You keep recommending them to me so when they dropped on mass drop, then yeah, I just totally picked them up and they’re quite nice. So these run now right around 250 bucks. Actually, recently, a little less around 230 on Amazon, so they’re not cheap and they’re, not shy about being reference headphones, which is on the box and on the headphones themselves and in the name. So that’s what you got to analyze them, as so, for all intents and purposes, these are a custom colorway of the AKG 702 s and they are a very simple, straightforward pair of open back reference monitors. So what that means is in terms of features. There’S not a whole lot of crazy stuff going on here. I know a lot of consumer headphones like to mess around with you know: bass, ports and dials and adjustable sound.
These are just about as simple as it gets just a clean, no frills pair of headphones. The one thing you do have gone for them, though, is comfort. This is one of the most comfortable pairs of headphones.
I’Ve ever worn, you kind of feel like you, could wear them for hours and not even notice, you’re still wearing them, which is exactly what you want with reference monitor headphones because you’ll be wearing them for a long period of time. While you work, the cups are big and they go completely around your ear and then the foam on the inside is this super soft, like almost sort of like a memory foam, so it holds its shape and move slowly doesn’t get sweaty like leather, it’s nice and Then they’re super lightweight. I still do like a little bit of padding on the top of most headphones. These aren’t padded, but it saves weight and the mechanism for how adjustable they are is super simple. It’S just really flexible.
It slides freely so no notches or anything, and then the headphones can fit all types of head shapes from. You know kids head to a huge head whatever, so you drop it on your head and that thin leather band, just kind of holds it up there and the headphones are light enough. That they’re super comfortable, like I said also the earcup foam, is so thick that they prop the actual inside of the headphone completely off your ears. So the inside of the ear cup is just kind of this empty space that the sound seems to come from. It’S more popular with bigger headphones. So with all this talk about the comfort and no frills approach, you’re probably wondering how do they sound well? Actually, that’s kind of easy.
They sound like reference, headphones, they’re, very flat, clean, balanced and just a little bit warm the biggest difference. You’Ll actually notice with these and most other pairs of headphones is that they are open back, so soundstage is way wide and the different parts of the track sound. Like they’re coming from different parts of the room around you, I did an entire video all about you know, open-back headphones and what those are like. So you can check that out.
These fall into that category and another thing since they’re open. You all know what that means sound leak, these leak like a lot of sound even more than normal, which I think you know, isn’t really a big deal in most situations, if you’re using these like in a studio or something, but just something to keep in mind. If you were planning on bringing these to work or something so overall, I was happy with the sound now whether it came from a preamp or my desktop or plugged straight into a laptop. It always gave me that accurate representation of my audio – they might not be the most fun for music listening because they are so flat.
I mean even the master op Edition have tuned it up. The bass is bumped by three decibels, but even they still sound pretty flat, so can escape the design and that’s basically it so to summarize, what are you getting for your money? You’Re, getting simple headphones, not a whole lot in the way features, but you do get some quality materials. You know some brushed metal plastic up here, some real leather over here and a super comfortable overall package. Thanks to some crafty engineering and I’m thinking, they’re pretty durable too so yeah they’re, maybe not great – for typical music listening but they’re awesome for monitoring, because that’s what they’re made for and at the end of the day, they’re pretty easy to recommend and, like I said, Obviously, there are some others that do the same thing for the same price, but the main advantage of these, I think, is their comfort, so they’re worth checking out. I’M glad I found them I’ll link to them below and I think they’re also $ 1.99. For a couple more days on mass drop, if you want to grab that quick discount, that’s been it! Thank you for watching and I’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace.
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