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I know your a big fan of akg 240 headphones. I have, over time, learned enough about them to respect them enough to grab a step up and check the seas. Did a lot of reading and decided to grab a pair of k701's. Oh the bliss. An almost exact perfection from the 240s. Pretty much the same, but even cleaner, sound.
Cool Hook, I have a set of 240's and have had them since the 1980's so at least they are long lasting. Good luck with your new ones....
You selling the 240s then? How much did the new ones cost ya?
No. I still like the 240s. The k701 were I think, $271 through Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/AKG-K-701-WHITE-HEADPHONES/dp/B000EBBJ6Y
Great neutral sound. I actually listen to them while on the road in hotels and while cleaning up the house. Washing clothes, whatever. I love em! I've really started to appreciate the AKG sound in general. You just can't beat it for comfort and good clean sound. The bass is laid back, which I think is good, especially for long listening periods. I just can stand big bass heavy cans like bose and shit. These are sweet.
I just thought you might want to check them out since you turned me on to these some years ago. (240s) I went back and forth from various different cans and always came back at some point to the 240s. I decided to give these a try. After having both pair of akgs, I don't see how people put the Senn HD 280 in the same ball park. But, they still sell the hell out of them.
To me, the 701s are cleaner sounding, maybe a tad less bass, maybe a tad more highs and mids, not much though. Seems you hear details more easily and plainly. Kinda the same as the 240s just cleaner and clearer. Better soundstage. I could listen to them for hours at a time. And do.
I will sell the hd 280s for $50. If someone needs a pair.
I don't like bass heavy headphones either, and it seems like most of them are these days!
A lot of people think lots of bass equals really good headphones. Far from the truth.
right, it's the old "boom and sizzle" that mid fi stereo gear used to be famous for. I want flat. I have a preset EQ on my Zen and all it does is cut low bass to try to flatten what I hear in my headphones.
I had a friend that worked at a big stereo store in the 70s and 80s. He took me in the back room one day after I questioned him on this.... sure enough, a smiley shaped EQ that all the demo equipment ran through. I asked him how many people returned speakers and stuff because they didn't sound the same at home. He said people asked about it all the time, but they explained that rooms are different, etc. and offered to sell them a graphic EQ to compensate. LOL I remember how "un-spectacular" the first really higher end stereo systems I heard sounded, until my ears adjusted to flatter response. I remember a friend of mine who was dieing to hear my stereo came over for the first time, and listened for a few minutes, then said "where's all the bass?" After 30 minutes he said it was the best he'd ever heard and he LOVED how tight, clean, pure the bottom end was. Most people who haven't heard really good stereo systems haven't heard good bass. boosted, boomy, overhanging, undamped MESS is the norm. Headphones have become the same way.
What was the topic again??? LOL
Ummmm, I think it was about how Budweiser taste like piss. ;D ;D
One thing you said in your post in very important. It was the part about your ears adjusting to what you hear.
When I first bought a pair of monitors for home, at first, I was big time pissed. I thought they sounded like shit. But after sitting around listening to them, I thought damn, I hear things I've never heard before. Then, after some time, the bass became plenty, and by far enough. Same thing with good headphones. Exactly the same. Good monitors and good headphones are the way to go for listening to music imo.
You need to get new headphones if you have to turn down the bass. ;D
Yep... I mixed my first couple of albums through Yamaha NS-10 speakers. Those things were so unenjoyable to mix with. But you better believe that if you heard something annoying in the mix in those, it would be annoying on all the stereos you tried it on, and if you heard something great, same thing.
I mix with Yamaha speakers MSP5's, but they don't give anything accurate, so I have a normal stereo hooked up to my mixer as well, so I go back and forth to regulate the bass frequencies which is all the Yamaha's lack in truth. Then it is in the house to listen to the mix on my laptop with small M-Audio reference monitors, and then out to my Rav4 to have a go in the car CD player. If it passes those tests, I publish it. I never mix with headphones, I just use them to monitor when I play live with a miked up amp or do vocals, and can't have speakers blaring out the BT.