CHANGSTAR: Audiophile Headphone Reviews and Early 90s Style BBS

  • December 31, 2015, 09:11:16 AM
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 ... 29

Author Topic: AKG 7XX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review  (Read 53790 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

M3NTAL

  • Hooter Luver
  • Able Bodied Sailor
  • Powder Monkey
  • ***
  • Brownie Points: +4/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 98
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2014, 08:32:42 PM »

Good looking measurements. The K701 was my first "High-End" headphone that just never sounded right to me. I've only revisited AKG with the K1000 and K501 for short periods of time. The 701 left a bad taste in my wallet :D

Please no white or neon green on a $XXX.XX headphone!
Logged

donunus

  • Cheapus Sexus
  • Mate
  • Pirate
  • ****
  • Brownie Points: +52/-3
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 875
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2014, 10:38:20 PM »

M3ntal, I hated the k701 before as well but that old one had some ringing issues unlike this one.
Logged
Team Delicious and Juicy Sound

Marvey

  • The Man For His Time And Place
  • Master
  • Pirate
  • *****
  • Brownie Points: +555/-33
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6698
  • Captain Plankton and MOT: Eddie Current
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2014, 10:45:51 PM »

how would you say the K7xx stacks up against the Senn HD600 or HD650.  Thanks.

I'd put them on par with the HD600s. I disliked the K701 for its tonal balance (too thin, slightly upward / lack of gentle downward slope toward the highs), but I never thought its technical capabilities in terms of resolution, clarity, etc. were lacking.

The Q701, with its warmer presentation, was the AKG that started to make me change my mind about the potential of the *7* series, but I never followed up by obtaining one, listening to it, measuring it. Like many others here, the K701 completely turned me off to the AKG *7* series for a long time. I just didn't and couldn't take that line seriously. Back then, I was even stupid enough to burn it in with a combination of drum tracks, white noise, pink noise, etc. for 440 hours because a few morons on HF said that's what I needed to do. (I acknowledge my idiocy.) At the end, I returned them to HeadRoom. That really seared into my brain how much I hated K701 and by association *7*. (The AKG marketing squad should have renamed them much more differently to denote the different sound.)

Both HD600 and K7XXX are different than one truly better than the other. Both are very solid mid-fi headphones with different strengths and weaknesses. Nitpicking, the HD600 has got that forwardness with the vocals, that shoutyness. The K7XXX has hint of glare and stridency. The K7XXX is crisper with better delineation of edges, but the HD600 is smoother and not as rough. Honestly, this is a situation where I would really need to line both of them up side by side to say with certainty the extent of the differences.

More later on this tonight... Let me dig up some old data.
Logged

Kamaka

  • Easy to Please
  • Able Bodied Sailor
  • Powder Monkey
  • ***
  • Brownie Points: +7/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 31
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2014, 11:01:09 PM »

Mid-fi seems to such me in every time. I'll likely end upupith a pair. Having reread the posts, I didn't notice any information about the headband. Is it the bumpy headband? I'm really hoping the answer is no.
Logged

Colgin

  • Able Bodied Sailor
  • Pirate
  • ***
  • Brownie Points: +18/-2
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 138
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #24 on: November 08, 2014, 05:50:10 AM »

I'd put them on par with the HD600s. I disliked the K701 for its tonal balance (too thin, slightly upward / lack of gentle downward slope toward the highs), but I never thought its technical capabilities in terms of resolution, clarity, etc. were lacking.

The Q701, with its warmer presentation, was the AKG that started to make me change my mind about the potential of the *7* series, but I never followed up by obtaining one, listening to it, measuring it. Like many others here, the K701 completely turned me off to the AKG *7* series for a long time. I just didn't and couldn't take that line seriously. Back then, I was even stupid enough to burn it in with a combination of drum tracks, white noise, pink noise, etc. for 440 hours because a few morons on HF said that's what I needed to do. (I acknowledge my idiocy.) At the end, I returned them to HeadRoom. That really seared into my brain how much I hated K701 and by association *7*. (The AKG marketing squad should have renamed them much more differently to denote the different sound.)

Both HD600 and K7XXX are different than one truly better than the other. Both are very solid mid-fi headphones with different strengths and weaknesses. Nitpicking, the HD600 has got that forwardness with the vocals, that shoutyness. The K7XXX has hint of glare and stridency. The K7XXX is crisper with better delineation of edges, but the HD600 is smoother and not as rough. Honestly, this is a situation where I would really need to line both of them up side by side to say with certainty the extent of the differences.

More later on this tonight... Let me dig up some old data.

Would be interested to hear if the K7xxxx is a decided improvement over the Q701 that I already own and enjoy. I have avoided the K712 without hearing fist because I think it may not be enough o f an improvement over what I already have to justify the $200 or more delta to trade up. OTOH, I would love an AKG that was basically the Q701 with just a slightly punchier bass and a little less strident treble.
Logged

firev1

  • Cynophobic Puss
  • Able Bodied Sailor
  • Pirate
  • ***
  • Brownie Points: +52/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 490
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2014, 11:32:47 AM »

Given its by AKG, wonder how close is it to the Olive-Welti stuff? Looks fantastic, was contemplating about the Q701 but never got it in place of the HD800. Any impressions on scalability and technicalities compared to the 600s if any?
Logged
Time spent on enjoyment is not time wasted. - someone

Marvey

  • The Man For His Time And Place
  • Master
  • Pirate
  • *****
  • Brownie Points: +555/-33
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6698
  • Captain Plankton and MOT: Eddie Current
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #26 on: November 08, 2014, 04:00:56 PM »

Given its by AKG, wonder how close is it to the Olive-Welti stuff? Looks fantastic, was contemplating about the Q701 but never got it in place of the HD800. Any impressions on scalability and technicalities compared to the 600s if any?

This scales about as well as HD600 in technicalities. Got good returns with Rag + Theta Gen V.
Logged

Marvey

  • The Man For His Time And Place
  • Master
  • Pirate
  • *****
  • Brownie Points: +555/-33
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6698
  • Captain Plankton and MOT: Eddie Current
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #27 on: November 08, 2014, 04:04:48 PM »

Posted crappy pix in first post. I lied. The headphone is black. No bumpy headband.
Logged

Clemmaster

  • Able Bodied Sailor
  • Pirate
  • ***
  • Brownie Points: +10/-1
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 239
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #28 on: November 08, 2014, 04:15:06 PM »

The description on the sheet and look match the K712 pro's. http://www.akg.com/K712+PRO-827.html?pid=1408

I'm sure it's the plastic paper that makes it sound so great!
Logged

briskly

  • Able Bodied Sailor
  • Powder Monkey
  • ***
  • Brownie Points: +6/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 66
  • Net Stalker
Re: AKG 7XXX (Massdrop) Measurement and Succinct Review
« Reply #29 on: November 08, 2014, 04:28:57 PM »

It has the same bass boost blurb on the back, and the FR looks very much like the K712. Looks like the latest in AKG's game of switching around letters, numbers, and branding of the K701.
Though, where does that leave the K712 in this model nonsense?
Logged
I love the asmr vids - a bunch of people just got together and decided that foley sound effects were now an official fetish
-Anetode
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 ... 29