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Originally Posted by m11a1 
Weird...it is XLR terminated.....why?
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Both of the major visible changes AKG made, namely the color and the cable, are ostensibly for professional recording reasons. Headphones, like all gear that is light enough to pick up, gets abused in a studio. Notably, the white was getting scuffed, and the cord was probably getting rolled over, caught in doors, stretched repeatedly, etc.
The XLR termination says to potential purchasers: "When you destroy my cord you don't have to buy a whole new set of headphones".
This approach seems sensible if AKG wishes to position the 701 as an upgrade to their venerable k240/340 studio 'phones -- and why wouldn't they?