I was shocked and delighted to discover that just like anything old and reliable, AKG has upgraded its innards without sacrificing the essence of what those old phones offered - an exceptionally comfortable, over the ear long-time listening experience

These phones are a bit less prominent around ~2-8kHz than the Sennheisers

Good phones for the money in this price range.

Low output devices like the iPod or the headphone output port of your Mac/PC or receiver will not power these phones enough to get the performance these phones are capable of

If you're a studio or control room rat, you may not be able to use an open-backed pair of headphones because of feedback problems or ambient room environmental conditions, but for stage width and depth, sense of spread, and "air" these phones have only the woefully uncomfortable, fussy and now largely extinct STAX phones as anything like serious competition

Right now my phones are breaking in and I am checking in on them every few hours I have to give my amp a break every 3 hours or so

Not much to say except that these phones are amazing

Not hard to drive, but also not for the underpowered mashed compression of any lossy playback medium, these phones don't present a problem for most headphone playback circuits on standard quarter inch phone- plug equipped devices

To combine utter honesty with profound musicality, these phones are an unequaled bargain

Not hard to drive, but also not for the underpowered mashed compression of any lossy playback medium, these phones don't present a problem for most headphone playback circuits on standard quarter inch phone- plug equipped devices

IPODs doesnt do any justice to these great head phones.

Unlike many other high-end professional open backed phones, these phones don't pinch the spectrum or exert overemphasis at frequency extremes just to sound "more hi-fi-ish

I got a pair of Sony MDR-605 (discontinued) and were very comfortable for wearing them for hrs without feeling the usual pressure pain given by the pads of a smaller headphones like the (Fanny Wang FW-HEADPH-1001) which sound great using an android smart phone or perhaps an iPod; but, after a 3 or four hrs had to take a half hr break to let my ear's blood circulate to get rid of the discomfort from the pressure between my ears and the pads

These are the clearest articulate phones ever owned...make my ATH 50s 's sound DULL.....very light...loud...cheap feel...not heavy as some reviews suggest

These are the best phones I've ever used