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I'm personally a little concerned that you're not liking them at all really. In the K701 appreciation thread there was mention of your integrated an amp and one poster wondering what it was about it that allowed the K701's to sound so good through it.
Anyway, the only reason I'd recommend with verve going further with getting a better source and amp for them is that whatever cans you end up with, you should be better off running them with better source and an amp which delivers good power.
Were you exaggerating about the K701's in how you described them or is their hope in what you heard? If there is, then you should very much improve their performance with not only good amp'ing, but a hefty burn-in period.
By early next week, I should be able to tell you what I personally think of them.
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Thanks for your reply, you say it sounds like i'm not liking the k702, well, I do like there dry tight sound, however, the only gripe i do have with them is the way the headband has been constructed with the ribs digging into your head.
Other users have complained about this and have gone to great lengths to rectify this annoyance from using tape, cable ties, and am sure i read someone hacked the ribs off with a
knife to eleviate the pressure these phones put on your head lol.
For me it's even worse, I'm totally
bald, so the juries out at the moment as they have only had about 12-14 hrs of music through them(am thinking about designing a hourometer that interfaces with the headphone cable, every time the headphones receive current, the device times it and you can see how many hours you have burned your headphones, bit like a mileometer on a car, when you hit 300 hours an alarm sounds to tell you your phones are nicely cooked lol, this time next year i'll be a millionaire lol), so theres a long way to burning them in.
You say about having enough power to drive the 701/702's, well my amp is rated at 150 wpc, so theres loads of power going to the phones, are there different rules for headphone listening? I was always under the impression, the more power an amp has, the better it will drive speakers, especially speakers with a low sensitivity that are hard to drive. The 701/702's are hard to drive.
I am seriously thinking of getting a tube amp for these or any other phone i acquire in the future, maybe a little dot recommended by someone in an earlier post.