I had high expectations of this headphone reading some online reviews and I really hoped to love it, but it was a dissappointment on more than one level. I bought it for mixing and music and VO recording in home studio setting.
It comes with two nice, strong mini XLR cables (straight and curled) and looks pro although the headphones themselves are quite light and plasticky. The heavy cable cause tremendous handling noise, amplified by the hollow plastic caps. The placement and material combination is terrible, surprised to see this nowhere mentioned. Maybe with a silk shirt and alone in a room it’s okay, but moving while mixing at a desk and recording: utterly unusable. The sounbd: I testrecorded successfully a nice, very rich Low F2 handpan with a great sustain, but these AKG's didn’t convey proper detail in the lows, hardly any bass at all - compared with my 20 year old trusty (and neutral) Sennheisere HD25’s as reference, who made every detail audible. Also the AKG monitoring output was quite low even on max: barely usable in soft passages. (interface Focusrite 2i2 Gen2).
The biggest lesson for me: never buy headphones online if you never listened to them in real life! You can judge a microphone with online recordings, but a headphone (sound and ergonomics) you have to try yourself! Now I will borrow a friends Beyerdynamic DT770 and see how that feels… I sadly have to return the AKG (pristine, used 2 hours, had all packaging)... Doing so, I have to praise Thomanns return process it feels very client friendly and smooth (no return sending costs either).
