AKG K702 Headphones

If you are a serious musician, or just a serious music lover these may be the headphones for you! I did not know what to expect when I got these. There are mixed reviews on the head-fi sites about excessive treble and lacking bass. I found these to have a balanced sound suitable for analytical listening and music production. If you want your head to thump, these are not for you. I do listen to alot of electronic music however, and I found the bass levels suitable. I have been listening to all genres of music in these and it all sounds great. Mostly songs I've heard for years just sounded clean and pure, like the way I always knew the song should sound. I have made one discovery with these in The Doors song "Riders on the Storm" : Jim Morrison is whispering the lyrics on a second vocal track throughout most of the song! For the Overstock price, these are a steal, and are a great introduction to the audiophile headphone scene.

pros- everything except... cons- doesn't keep sound out but still worth it.

I have been an AKG 240 fan since the late 70's. Simply a great set of cans. My second pair of 240's bought the dust recently so in looking for replacements I ran into the 702, and I am glad I did. The sound is simply AWESOME! I am hearing things I have not heard before. The sound is very expansive, not like in ear buds, or like other closed designs. The sound is open and clean. I am sold. The reason to get the 702 vs the 701 is that the 702 has a replaceable cord. The cord will eventually FAIL! This is a problem with all headphones, and not AKG alone. The wire will fray inside and render the headphones useless. This is what happened to both my previous pairs, and I even tried to repair them (I am pretty good with a soldering iron), but the repair is not always 100% and they they fail again. With the 702, you just get a new cord, and are good to go. I will NEVER buy another set of cans without a replaceable cord. Great design AKG, you guys rock! There is only one downside to these cans. The headband is NOT as good as the 240s. They decided to get fancy pants and put ridges on the side that rests on your head. The original 240 design had a simple flat strap that distributed the force over your entire head, and that is one the main reasons the design of these cans is so good. You can wear the 240s all day long and not get fatigued. The ridges create hot spots on your head that start to annoy you after an hour of wearing them. If you have more hair up there than I do, this may not be an issue for you, but the bottom line is the sound is so good, I will live with a little discomfort. Bottom line: Great acoustics, OK ergonomics, and a great price from Overstock.com. Highly recommended!

These headphone are a relatively inexpensive way of getting excellent sound. One problem is that they can make you speakers sound less impressive than you previously thought (you may get spoiled). You don't know what you are missing until you hear your music through these headphones.