AKG K702 dismantling and design review of this overly complex headphone
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2022
- In this video I take a look at how the legendary AKG K702 is constructed in preparation for designing some mods for it.
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I didn’t know that about the headband, how the headband frame actually IS the wires. That’s genius, I’d love to see more headphones with that design.
The most insane part about it is that this feverdream of a design was first realized with the AKG K500 in 1991. Imagine coming up with this without proper 3D-CAD. All of the junk in the back of the driver also causes the peak at 2kHz. There used to be some people who would run their K701 without the silver plastic grill and the holder for the connector/strain-relief and just 2 side direct wire to the drivers.
I own the 612 pro great headphone, thanks for the look inside. Cool channel.
Interesting video; thank you! I wonder which parts are to be removed in order to replace the rubber ring. (I've got an old K240DF -- approx. 15-20 years old, and the elastics still work. However, the newer headphones I've bought (K701, K712pro) had worn out, loosened rubber rings in 3-4 years.
Certainly an unusual headphone and honestly not one that I would recommend unless you are familiar with EQ because they are so ridiculously bass light and overemphasized in the 2 or 3 khz region. So in short: You either love the sound or you hate it.
Lots of people have complained that the headband elastics wear out. I thought they were just crazy unlucky, since I've had my K240 Studio for years in daily use and it's still working fine. Then I bought a (very lightly) used, near pristine Q701 - Austrian made - and the elastics are already just two pieces of string, completely tired out. Doesn't really matter for me since my head is so huge the strap is at maximum anyway, but my girlfriends can't get them to hold at all.
my dream is to have a phone like that, and you taking it all apart, but anyway it was a great video.
You can try mirroring the CAD model of the left side to the right and making a dual-entry 3 or 4-pin XLR.
I wish the ear pads were just slightly thicker, or that AKG offered a thicker replacement. The hard part of my ear touches the cup and it's the only part that's uncomfortable about these. With the old K240 Studio I ordered a set of Brainwavz and got rid of the problem, but with the K/Q 7-series the pads are asymmetrical, and Brainwavz doesn't offer any like that. Dekoni audio does offer pads for the Q/K 7-series, but they aren't angled either, and are more expensive than the Brainwavz.
Is opening up the 560S in the cards? I'd love to know how it differs from the other 500 series
after buying a pair, i'm kinda having buyers remorse, the earcup material is itchy and bothers my skin and the elastic is headband retention is way to hard, it constantly keeps pulling the cans up on my ears till it squishes the bottom of my ear which requires readjustment every 3-5 minutes, been debating about cutting the elastic bands to let the headband just free move since when it's on my head it sits on the largest adjustment anyways
I think they changed the color from navy to black?
Tengo unos akg k702 desde hace 2 días 😉😉👍👍
What improvements are to be made wiring them balanced?
So that driver, do they sound different or special compared to just the regular drivers we see in most cheap headphones? I guess I'm wondering why not just buy a superlux knockoff cause the 681 seems to be rated higher than most of AKG's cans all over the internet.
Is there actually a way to remove the elastic bands?
Great, which is your favorite moded headphone so far?? 400se? Which one sound best to you?
Disassemble AKG K275
Sound is great, very comfortable on the head, but soldering is shit.
Jesus Christ