[Prog Rock Man]

K271 MkII being added to the collection. Family want be to get something that leaks an absolute minimum of sound.

 

[JPresz]

K701's here

 

[FritzS]

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K271 MkII being added to the collection. Family want be to get something that leaks an absolute minimum of sound.

I own a K271 MKII too, it's the most shielded headphone I own.
It shielded in both direction - on and out - very good.
D7000 shielded in one direction - out better. The family hear my music silent, but I hear all words.
 
My rating - the K271 MKII is a bit below the K701/702, Q701

 

[e-bay]

My AKG K142 HD should be here tomorrow. My first set of nice headphones, so I'm pretty excited.
 
Has anyone used an E7, or other amp with these particular ones?

 

[Prog Rock Man]

The K271s have arrived and I am just playing with them at the moment. It is -7 degrees outside and i know they have been in the back of a frozen van for two days waiting to be delivered, so they will need running in. I will need to wait for family to get home to tell me how noisy they are as, of course they stop as soon as you take them off, which is very clever. I had also not realised that they come with interchaneable cables and pads, which sound be standard for all headphones!

 

[JPresz]

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The K271s have arrived and I am just playing with them at the moment. It is -7 degrees outside and i know they have been in the back of a frozen van for two days waiting to be delivered, so they will need running in. I will need to wait for family to get home to tell me how noisy they are as, of course they stop as soon as you take them off, which is very clever. I had also not realised that they come with interchaneable cables and pads, which sound be standard for all headphones!

maybe try putting them on your leg to see how loud they are to people around?

 

[Prog Rock Man]

 
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The K271s have arrived and I am just playing with them at the moment. It is -7 degrees outside and i know they have been in the back of a frozen van for two days waiting to be delivered, so they will need running in. I will need to wait for family to get home to tell me how noisy they are as, of course they stop as soon as you take them off, which is very clever. I had also not realised that they come with interchaneable cables and pads, which sound be standard for all headphones!

maybe try putting them on your leg to see how loud they are to people around?

I tried that, but it was like trying tell if the light goes out in the fridge when you close the door. I was never sure if they had muted or started up again.
 
The answer is that they leak enough sound to potentially annoy someone sitting next to you in a quiet room and they are not my most leakless headphones, my little Senn PX200s are. But they have nothing like the SQ and scale of music that the K271s have.

 

[tdogzthmn]

You can turn off the auto-cutoff on the K271 buy rotating the little black tab that pushes down on the switch.  Just as a user tip, the slots along the ridge where the earpads wrap around are to make it easier to thread on the ear pad.

 

[Prog Rock Man]

Thanks fro the tips, I got the pads on fine, but I cannot find the tab for the life of me, where is it?
 
After 4 days of exclusive listening with the K271s I have switched back to my K702s and am really appreciating that extra openness that they give.

 

[RexAeterna]

akg 240s. love them so much. totally under-rated headphone.

 

[jeffreyfranz]

I'm in, though a relative Noob.
 
AKG K-701

 

[BournePerfect]

My second K702, serial #13273 purchased from Amazon about a week ago. And I might add that these sound even better out of my AGD C-2 SA than they did out of my modded m-stage! Even on low gain, I never put the dial past 9:30 or 10 lol, this amp was meant for planars (6 WATTS into 50 ohms!). Can someone tell me what are the ABSOLUTELY hardest AKG's to drive-I want some more stuff to throw at this beast
 
-Daniel

 

[jbluzb86]

I will sign in with my AKG K420 headphones

 

[Gatepc]

Signing in with K702 though always open to trying new headphones.

 

[Kukuk]

K271 owner here. Currently lusting after a K501/601/701 though, since I'm dying for some soundstage.
 
I'd be more interested in the K240's, but I've heard people say they are much bassier than the K271's, and I really just want to retain this overall sound signature.
 
If anyone has some of the aforementioned headphones they'd be willing to trade, do let me know!