Dropping K701 for leaderboard consideration.


K550? Used for $99 at Amazon. Now that scares me is the ones going for $99 are the nasty sounding ones.

+1 for TH-02

hey how about akg k240 studios for 70 bucks... Those seem pretty worthy for what they do.

Quote from: hans030390 on October 10, 2014, 06:09:20 PM

I tried the K702 65th AE before the HD600 or HD650. Long before. I just didn't find it to be a very competitive headphone and would even take the HD558 over it easily.

That seems a bit much.  I've been a fan of the 558/598 but no way would I ever consider that driver more capable or equal to the 70x series.  Sounds like you had FR issues with lack of bass or maybe that upper mid timbre.  Personally I've never had bass issues with the 70x like some others have though I've never tried one from my phone either.

Bass was fine on the K702. Mostly came down to the upper mids. Treble was sometimes a bit odd beyond that as well, but nothing too bad. I dunno, maybe the AKG driver has more potential, but both the HD5x8 and K7xx seem to have slightly high harmonic distortion, especially at high volumes (not sure which sounds worse loud), and the HD5x8 had an arguably more balanced response. I can see why some would disagree with me, but I just can't get behind those AKGs.


I would nominate the TH02 but would have to have more experience with more $20-35 headphones to say one way or the other. They all seem to do something not quite right.