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Massdrop x AKG K7XX Audiophile Headphones
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Mar 29, 2018
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These headphones are great for watching videos because of the soundstage. It often sounds like something is happening in my room instead of in the video, which took a little getting used to. I didn't instantly love the K7XXs headphones for music, because somehow they didn't make me want to rock out as much as the other headphones I had (Grado SR125, Bose QC2, and some other headphones I've since gotten rid of). In part I think it's because of the much less accentuated bass response in the K7XXs.
However, the K7XXs have really, really, really grown on me. I recently got the Sony WH1000xm2 (noise-cancelling) headphones for an open-plan office. Before bringing them into the office, I tested them back-to-back with the K7XXs and found the Sonys are almost unlistenable in comparison. The K7XXs sound so open and detailed and spacious, and somehow the Sonys just feel small (acoustically) and flat. I was so shocked at the difference I busted out my Grados to see if the Sonys were just crap. However, I found that the Grados, which served me fine for years, now sound terrible to me--all bass to the point of overwhelming the detail in the rest of the music.
So I'm not sure what to conclude. Maybe we just like the sounds we are used to. But I have a hard imagining going back to other headphones unless I really need them for noise canceling.
Another unexpected thing (which might make you want to discount my review) is that, contrary to popular opinon, for my level of discernment (I guess I'm not an audiophile) I didn't find the K7XXs hard to drive. I've done back-to-back tests with the Schiit Fulla2, the Aune X1S (from massdrop), a $14 USB 2.0 external 5.1 sound box (from "optimal shop" on amazon), and the analog headphone jack on my Google pixel phone. I literally cannot tell the difference between these four amps (the third of which isn't even really an amp so much as a DAC) when I plug in the K7XXs. That's in stark contrast to the salient differences between the different sets of headphones I have. So I'd certainly say that if you are deciding between better headphones (like these) or a new headphone amp, get the headphones. For any given amp, I do need to turn up the volume slightly for the K7XXs compared to other headphones, but who cares?
Update: Well, I've had the headphones just over two years, and the little clear plastic piece that holds the headband to the spring-loaded bands has broken on one side. I don't think I've been particularly hard on the headphones. Not only did they break just after the warranty expired, but AKG will not even repair it for a fee or sell me the plastic part I need to fix the headphones, telling me my only option is to buy an entirely new pair. So I'm docking a star because that plastic part is pretty flimsy and looks like it should break often:
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