Audiophilia

[zero_kanipan]

checked out Egghead at Robinson Galleria today and found they had an AKG K701 out for testing. tested it and found the soundstage way too big, and the sound too..i dunno..flat. pretty sensitive and precise tho, just didnt have oomph. parang malupit na ice tea na sobrang sarap pero walang amats. anyway, they had other models out, most of which were too bright for my taste, save for the K540. the latter tho seems lacking in bass, and electronic songs weren't as crisp as they should be.

I'm glad you noticed. A bunch of new headphone releases by the large manufacturers have built in treble peaks which sound piercing and painful at times. They did this because they're trying to fool consumers into thinking "moar treble = better clarity!" when that's not the case at all. Grado is guilty of it as well, but AKG is really pushing the limit of what's acceptable and frankly as a consumer, I find it quite insulting. Sennheiser is also guilty of producing utter shit like the new $1k HD700 which you might have seen at Egghead.

i didn't test the Sennheiser cans they had out (save for the HD598) since most of them i've tried out at The Listening Room before. but yeah, some of the AKG models had the treble up to the point of it being physically painful to listen too (for me at least). reminds me of the speaker setups in some jeepneys XD.

they also had Superlux cans out dangling on what seemed to be a clothes rack. didn't try them out as i didn't know what to expect from them. reading up on them now.