extrabigmehdi
Headphoneus Supremus
- Joined
- May 27, 2009
- Posts
- 2,693
- Likes
- 77
I already own earbuds from AKG (k317) , and love how they sound.
I thought by "extrapolation", that getting a full size heaadphone
from AKG, would be cool. I saw great reviews on the K701, they look nice,
and I can find them near 200 euros, which is in my budget range.
However the pain, is the amp thing. Everyone say the k701 require an amp.
Would there be nice if I buy a cheap amp (less than 50 euros), like the behringer ma400, or samson s-monitor ?
I would use it with onboard sound Realtek Alc889 from my pc, which is not that bad (with wasapi, to bypass any unwanted dsp from driver).
Otherwise in fact , I own two computer , in two different town.
With one of them, I already use the senn hd595 , and from some reasons
I do not wish to travel with thoses headphones , and keep them on the same place (I take the train).
This computer have also a Xonar STX as soundcard, and buying a second one for second computer would be just too much expensive.
So the question is that is it worth to buy a cheap amp amp, and do :
onboard Realtek Alc889 ---> cheap amp ---> K701
or the cheap amp would just be a waste of money, and then
the last solution to consider would be to swap my hd595 with the k701,
and then use the k701 with my xonar stx (which have an amp, that I don't even activate with my hd595).
I don't know what I like so much in my akg k317 earbuds (same sound as k319), and that I wish to refind on my full size headphones, but according to a kostalex review, they sound like "lesser version of K701, keeping its tonality along with excellent speed, separation and clarity. Unfortunately, it lacks wonderful K701 mids, micro details and overtones."
So that's a reason, at getting excited of getting k701.
And nope, cannot test them on a shop.
Any advice ?
Thanks
I thought by "extrapolation", that getting a full size heaadphone
from AKG, would be cool. I saw great reviews on the K701, they look nice,
and I can find them near 200 euros, which is in my budget range.
However the pain, is the amp thing. Everyone say the k701 require an amp.
Would there be nice if I buy a cheap amp (less than 50 euros), like the behringer ma400, or samson s-monitor ?
I would use it with onboard sound Realtek Alc889 from my pc, which is not that bad (with wasapi, to bypass any unwanted dsp from driver).
Otherwise in fact , I own two computer , in two different town.
With one of them, I already use the senn hd595 , and from some reasons
I do not wish to travel with thoses headphones , and keep them on the same place (I take the train).
This computer have also a Xonar STX as soundcard, and buying a second one for second computer would be just too much expensive.
So the question is that is it worth to buy a cheap amp amp, and do :
onboard Realtek Alc889 ---> cheap amp ---> K701
or the cheap amp would just be a waste of money, and then
the last solution to consider would be to swap my hd595 with the k701,
and then use the k701 with my xonar stx (which have an amp, that I don't even activate with my hd595).
I don't know what I like so much in my akg k317 earbuds (same sound as k319), and that I wish to refind on my full size headphones, but according to a kostalex review, they sound like "lesser version of K701, keeping its tonality along with excellent speed, separation and clarity. Unfortunately, it lacks wonderful K701 mids, micro details and overtones."
So that's a reason, at getting excited of getting k701.
And nope, cannot test them on a shop.
Any advice ?
Thanks