plakat
Headphoneus Supremus
This Quincy Jones line up is a joke. (my opinion)
Every products in this series I've heard sounds significantly inferior to the proper AKG counterparts. To be honest I know absolutely nothing about Quincy Jones and have no idea what he does. But this "signature" line up does nothing but ruin the AKG reputation.
To the contrary... The Q701 did improve in some aspects over the K702 is was derived from, with those changes flowing back into the non-labelled products (K702AE, K712, K7XX). And I think many actually prefer the voicing of the Q701 oder the K702... though nobody knows how much that has actually to do with Mr. Jones. I tend to think its not just renting his name for a label though...
While I'm not in favor of celebrity endorsement at least Quincy Jones should know what he's talking about... you might want to read up on that, I don't think partnering with him does affect AKGs reputation in a bad way (its not like doing a - sorry - tasteless Lady Gaga branding or something along those lines).
Coming back to the subject of this thread: If the only available color is gold... I'll pass, however good it may be. But the more I think about it, the less I like the idea of electronics actively correcting a drivers flaws (and thats what this kind of design comes down to for me). I know of active systems in PA that do this sort of things to stay clean at the highest output possible... that may be an interesting concept and extends what is possible given that the drivers are driven to their limits. For headphones I don't see this being the case... so I prefer feedback-control systems to stay out of the loop.