AKG K712 Pro vs Hifiman Sundara

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This is a planar magnetic over-ear open back headphone that comes in right at around $350. So let's take a look. This review unit was sourced through ...

my dad bought them 25 years ago and they still go strong against newer (cheaper) headphones even tho i had to change the foam earcups. As others said a lot of headphones were released a lot of time ago but still go strong (and are still for sale, unlike my sonys) like HD 600, AKG K712 Pro, etc..

I bought these headphones in 2020 about 1 and a half years ago and I use them daily at my desktop for about 8-10 hours a day. After the first year the headband completely shattered one day out of nowhere on the left side and I discovered the band made from cheap plastic and fake metal-plastic with the exception of 2 of the 8 pieces of the band. After gluing it together with super glue and trying to work with it, it has repeatedly broken over and over with no solution and now the ear pads it comes with are COMPLETELY destroyed from just daily wear. For 300$ this is 100% not worth it over the Sennheiser competitor options

**Source**: PS4 (main source of gaming) / PC (onboard audio controller), no DAC/AMP yet. If I need a DAC/AMP I would be willing to buy a budget one but rather would like to spend the money on good cans (if that\`s wrong please enlighten me). **Requirements for Isolation**: I only use the headphone at home in a rather quiet environment. I actually like it when I don't here outside noises (e

I’ve had no issues with “build quality” at all. Nothing has loosened and there are no “glued on” parts falling off. The non-swiveling cans are a non-issue to me. I’m using these to listen to music without waking someone down the hall or next door, not to be a DJ in a club somewhere

COMFORT First things first. In my opinion these things have way too loose of a fit. Compared to Sennheiser 650s, which are snug and somewhat tight, these feel more like they'll fall off my head. SOUND These headphones tend to have a massive dip in the upper mids

Also these are some of the most open headphones ever. If you can hear your music someone 10 feet away can as well. As far as comfort goes they aren't the worst for me. Their pads are scratchy and slightly small, while the headband is just fine

Ultimately I am returning the K702 because the a) the 2khz hump is annoying to my ears, and b) the very wide sound stage is a bit too wide and unfocused. When I take them off and put my Senns back on, every instrument is immediately restored to perfect placement, but with the AKGs, it’s hard to place exactly where an instrument is in the mix. Instruments kind of dance from far left to far right. You don’t feel as close to the instruments as you do with Sennheiser, but I’d take the ‘intimacy’ of Sennheiser to get the accurate imaging

Seriously? For me, however, the dealbreaker was comfort. The housings on these things are very large and the clamping force is substantial. No matter how much I adjusted them, the pads on the housings pressed hard on the back of my ears and the bottom rear of my jaw, and I found that I could wear them for much more than thirty minutes before I have to take them off. This may have to do with the fact that the ear cup housings do not rotate at all, they are fixed perpendicular to the headband, and thus there's no compensation for pressure differences from the front to the back of the ear cups against your head/ears

There are so many other great headphones for this kind of money! I think I would have kept them if they were about $175 but definitely not the mid $300 range. I hope this helps someone make the right decision!

The Sundara has been out for a while, years actually, and there was even a slight revision to it two years ago where they basically upgraded the pad. ...