ephemere
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Curious what kind of battery life people who are purchasing these new are getting. I'm assuming since sales were basically 0 for this headphone, that all of these headphones are sitting in storage somewhere for coming up on 5 years with the same battery.
Has anyone contacted AKG for the cost to replace the battery?
I also was concerned about this and contacted AKG (Harman) before I bought them. Harman's response:
I understand that the battery has a big effect in your decision. However, the battery of our headphones cannot be replaced. You may check with your local repair shops if they have the tool in replacing the battery but on our end, our warehouse does not replace battery and we do not sell internal parts of our products.
I bought them anyway and am glad I did. As it turns out, the battery is no concern in practice for my usage because I only use the USB input, connected to my phone. In this configuration it appears to be a USB-powered device, as convenient and trouble-free as any pair of passive headphones. The phone charges the battery during usage. and so I have never plugged the headphones into power to charge them. My guess is that the unit would still function as a USB-powered device even if the battery were completely dead, but I can't be certain about that.
If you plan to use the analog input then that is of course another story. For me, that would make these headphones significantly less convenient.