Only if we had an in house AKG K702 expert and enthusiast
@Robbo99999
Ha, hi, only just seen this post, sorry!
Anyone know about the new Harmon Kardon AKG 702? You can find them for $100 on Ebay from they are made in China now and I've heard they are not as good as the older ones.
Did they just destroy a standard for recording and audiophiles to save on production costs? AKG made some nice stuff. Very comfortable. Good sound. Are the Harmon Kardon versions useless for recording?
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=akg+702&_sacat=0
K702 & K701 both used to be made in Austria, and then more recently started to be made in China. I bought my first K702 in 2015 and that was a Chinese made version, I don't know which year was the switchover from Austria to China. All information I can find is that Chinese made K702 & K701 are the same as their Austrian brothers.
In terms of the K702 as a headphone it's generally better to use it with EQ, and I'd recommend either Oratory's EQ for it here:
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or you can try my EQ for it in the following post:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/033kxyf8a0o3iv6/AKG%20K702.pdf?dl=0 As the topic is up there: I think the new Oratory1990 EQ contains a typing error. -3,6db@210hz is too much. He probably meant 2,6db. I entered his measurement & EQ data into Squiglink and you can see that his filter is exactly 1db...
www.audiosciencereview.com
I've got 4 units of K702 and one of those was measured by Oratory, and I've also measured all 4 units on my miniDSP EARS rig, which was the backbone behind my EQ which is in the previous link - I explain all the background at that post that's linked.
K702 suffers from a couple of problems: unit to unit variation is not great, and the solder is very likely to fail eventually or quite quickly that holds the wires on in the earcups - so it helps if you know how to solder them back on (once soldered back on by me they've "stayed on forever"). I do find them to be good soundstage headphones though (which I think is what makes them quite unique amoungst most headphones), and I think they can be generally quite resolving when EQ'd properly. I go through phases of using my K702 or my HD560s (whilst leaving the rest of my headphones alone to gather dust mostly). On balance I've been using my HD560s more often, which is a lot more reliable headphone on a lot of fronts.
