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I can get these for 75$ used, and have heard that they are great for gaming. That is what I will be using them for almost 100% of the time. I have my Sennheiser HD439 to listen to music with. If I get them i will probably put a mic on them. So only reason I am posting is just to ask what are some pros and cons of the headphones? (for gaming not music) Thanks in advance!
Heya,
They're probably one of the most over-hyped headphones on the internet tied with the word "gaming". Take this as merely my opinion as someone who's tried 40+ headphones, and plays games. Not someone who just regurgitates what they've read and spams "M50, AD700" to everyone for every single request.
PROs:
Spacious sound stage. It's open, wide, great separation.
Soft material that touches your skin (note: for some, it's itchy).
Fits big heads, because they're huge cups and the band is very loose, so it's great for massive noggins.
It has a long cable, so it can reach behind your box or to whatever you're plugging it into. The cable is also decent quality, it's not a flimsy little cord. It will survive a couple of poorly thought out tugs.
Low impedance, high sensitivity, which translates to an efficiency. In other words, it runs off anything. You won't need special "amplifiers" to make it be dynamic.
Sound is decent, it has good mids and treble, clear sound, airy even, but not too bright to the point of pain, and not too dim to the point of overly smoothing out detail.
CONs:
It doesn't fit so great on smaller heads. You'll have to bend the band to make it snuggly hold your head unless you have a massive head.
The cups are huge, so it may not touch your head with all the cup, which can be annoying when you want to properly position the driver to your ear.
You can't change the pads, so I hope you like AT's version of velour. For some, it's itchy. For others, it's fine.
Sound quality is merely decent, not superb. As for frequency, it really lacks bass (sub bass). This is a good thing for "online competitive directional foot step listening" but it's pretty awful for immersion and plain having fun.
Usually runs $100, which is expensive for what you get. You're paying for 2/3rd of the frequency response potential of a typical headphone, when you could just get a fully response headphone and EQ the bass away if you really want no bass.
It's one of those over-hyped headphones that for some unfortunate reason has been reduced to being the "gamer's headphone" king of recommendations, which is so, so, very misleading.
There's $50 headphones that do the same thing as the AD700. But they aren't over-hyped and hyper-recommended. So naturally, are unheard of by most new to the wide world of headphones.
If you'd like further review, please see the link in my signature for the AD700. Complete with photos.
I actually do not recommend the AD700. Take any decent headphone and equalize the bass down, and you can mimic the same thing for less money. It would be one thing if the headphone was actually neutral and capable of producing bass, but it's not, it's not neutral, it's a headphone with more volume in the mids & treble, and less volume in the bass. Equalizing this
up does not have the same effect as having a headphone that is already quite capable of producing bass. So why get a factory crippled headphone?
Basically I'm trying to save your money, since this is for
gaming and not for actual enjoyment of audio. But then again, I've gamed with my HE-500's. Kind of a weird world.
Very best,
