(Putting this here as probably the most prominent K702 thread here on ASR and could be useful for K702 owners)
At all K702 owners, I urge you to buy the following aftermarket pads, they're a bit deeper than the stock pads that AKG ships on their headphones nowadays....AKG used to have deeper pads on the K702 but they seem to sell with shallower pads now, which means your ears are more likely to touch the drivers and therefore soundstage is worse on the more modern K702's. But if you buy the following aftermarket pads it'll return them to the deeper pad that AKG used to put on their K702's which will help soundstage, they're also a lot less money than the expensive genuine K702 pads. So these are the ones I recommend you:
Free delivery and returns on eligible orders. Buy Accessory House Premium Velour ear pads compatible with AKG K701 K702 AKG Q701 K612 PRO K712 PRO and Massdrop K7XX Headphones. Premium Velour | Soft High-Density Foam | Easy Installation at Amazon UK.
www.amazon.co.uk
I measured the frequency response of the above aftermarket pads vs the stock pads on my latest K702 that I bought (I have 3 units of K702 ranging from yrs 2015 through to 2020, through to 2022). So following is a measurement of the aftermarket pads linked above vs the stock pads on my latest K702 bought in 2022 (blue line is stock pads):
Don't worry about the strange peakiness you're seeing, as this was measured on a miniDSP EARS rig and not on the GRAS measurement rigs that Oratory & Amir uses, so the frequency response will look different, however we're focussing on the comparative difference between stock pads and aftermarket pads here, there's not much difference. This is an average of 10 measurements, so the data is good, it's not just a cherrypicked measurement. Yes, so not much difference, I urge you to buy the aftermarket pads praps even if you have the stock pads on at the moment, due to their slightly deeper nature which could improve the soundstage for you.
I think given that the differences are small that you could use the Oratory EQ along with these aftermarket pads with confidence.
EDIT: I think these aftermarket pads are even better than the expensive genuine AKG pads you can buy from Thomann, because the genuine pads from Thomann created channel imbalance issues in my headphones, a strange dip in one of the channels in the treble and an imbalance below 1kHz too, following are the Thomann supposedly genuine pads, notice the channel imbalance:
Yes, so instead definitely go for the aftermarket pads I linked you at the Amazon link.