Akg K702. So I have a bunch of expensive headphones from big box music retailer blowouts, which sounds kind of crazy, but for the price of a pedal they all do reveal different things in their own way. I generally don’t wear them for very long at a stretch unless I’m tracking or fiddling with EQ, but I do use them a whole lot.
So I compared the K702 to a Sennheiser HD650 and Neumann NDH20, and yep, they all sound different!
But I was listening to a
Van Dyke Parks interview I had going on a decent Bluetooth speaker. The AKGs were notable in how much they revealed the sound of the room he was in, which was a striking contrast - on the speaker, it just sounded like Van Dyke speaking in a non studio environment. .
I usually use
Marquee Moon or whatever song I last worked on as a reference, but I’m going to start adding the unaccompanied human voice to that list, just because the differences can seem so stark. Bonus points that it’s not my voice so I don’t have to think about it more than I have to.
I don’t have much to say about the headphones, but they do sound pretty different from the other two, perhaps in between the HD650, which is the only one I would use for regular listening, and the NDH20, which are definitely for reference only. It wasn’t a great time for me to spend money on gear, but at $120 it feels like something I’d be happy to use.
I should probably get a decent headphone amp one day, but I’m happy using monitoring through my Midas board and this little ATI amp I got for very cheap.
Kniferide wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:24 am
That's a good deal but I hate that giant basket headphone design. Feels like I'm wearing a space helmet
Edit... I took the bait because I saw that I had $80 in credits so I got the mega cheapozoid discount. I'm going to outer space!
What’d you think?