tdockweiler
Headphoneus Supremus
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So AKG claims that they had Quincy Jones voice a headphone for them and that voicing sounds so close to a model they already make that all they have to do is slightly tweak that existing model? This tweak also happens to by mere coincidence be a little more midbass which would also make it a more consumer friendly (i.e. marketable) sound.
Is anyone supposed to buy that? If you do I've got an R10 I'll sell you for the low, low price of 2K and an Orpheus and HEV90 I'll sell you for just 7.5K. Send PayPal too...
Seriously now. Yes it sounds a little different. Yes some people think its worthwhile upgrade. Yes its still 99% marketing...
What the heck are you rambling on about? I don't even really know what I just read there. Feels like this issue has been beaten to death hundreds of times by now. Where have you been? It's amusing how some on here are so dead set on the idea that two headphones are the same, yet haven't even heard both! I don't even care what AKG has claimed about the Q701.
IMO saying the Q701 is 100% marketing BS would be OK, if it was in fact exactly the same as the K702/K701. I believed this too at first. Unlike you two, I actually heard them.
How the heck is a 10-15% improvement, 99% marketing? Actually don't tell me. Just adding more mid-bass isn't a 10-15% improvement.
The whole idea of 99% marketing is non-sense...then this idea of it being a "mere coincidence" of there being being more mid-bass.
To me, AKG fixed a long list of issues people had with the K702...yet, it's all marketing. Err, 99% marketing. Whatever you say.
Sometimes I wish people would just not comment about the Q701 unless they've actually heard it.