AD700X High-Fidelity Open-Back Headphones Black

for music: the first few songs i was not impressed, felt like returning... few more songs later and experimenting with sound settings they actually have such detailed sound its almost painful to listen at times. for gaming: instantly impressed, they have insane accuracy in panning direction and you can also tell how far away the sound is coming from! like real life but more reliable? they are also capable of buttery bass if you boost it. going back to other headphones sounds awful (some £110 bluetooth over-ear senheisers i bought in a physical store 4 years ago)... beware. definitely at-home use only, unless its good weather and you only want a walk. i paid £150 for these which feels fair enough.

I was a bit sceptical at first. I wasn't sure if I was wasting money as I had already a pretty decent pair of headphones that everyone I knew who listened through them where impressed . And when I first started using them I was pretty disappointed. They sounded flat to me and some mids where too loud for me. Then I kept using them and burned them in and adjusted to them myself. And they still didn't seem that great. Just a good pair of headphones. Then I used my older headphones and it was day and night. My older pair sounded muddy and unclear and really closed in and just wasn't enjoyable to listen through anymore these made them sound like a 5 pound headphone in comparison. I love these.

I recently started acting upon my long since dormant audiophile urges. These were my second pair of half-decent headphones (after an earlier purchase of ATH-M50's). The first thing you notice when you pull these out of the box and put them on your head is that they are BIG but extremely light. The adjustable "clamps" on top are super comfy and you can wear them for hours on end. It may feel a little "loose" at first but when you find the right spot for them and learn to put them on through the top of your head instead of the front, you will find that other headphones just hurt your head compared to these. My idea was to use these for gaming (as their sound signature and large ANGLED drivers does wonders when it comes to 3D positioning) but to be perfectly honest I have not found a decent excuse to use them, videogame wise. Very few videogames excite me nowadays and even the recently purchased Arma 3 has seen little playtime. So, I ended up using them as a complement to the M50's when it comes to music listening. I kept the M50's to the rock, metal and electronic stuff and dedicated the AD700x's to classical (John Williams scores), jazz (Turnabout jazz soul), prog (Genesis, Yes) and more "sludgy" rock and metal (Mastodon, Intronaut) (believe me, you won't call it sludge anymore, it just brings out all the details that were initially buried beneath the walls of distortion. I'm hearing new things in albums I've listened to hundreds of times). Initially, I was very underwhelmed. The bass was extremely lacking and the sound quality wasn't that outstanding, to be honest. Boy did that soon change... Please note I am very sceptical of the purported "burn in" phenomenon but against facts there are no arguments: after a few weeks, maybe a month of burn in through the occasional videogame and music play these puppies came alive! I am 85% sure these are not just my ears getting used to the equipment. I am now prefering them over my long beloved m50's for most uses as with a smidge of soundcard EQ on the 60 and 120hz ranges (I know, I know: "EQ?! Shun the Heretic!") they are now just bassy enough to be considered "exciting" while still retaining their amazing clarity on the mid and upper ranges. Great headphones that need time, patience, home-use (their size negates portability) and someone who isn't a die-hard basshead to take full advantage of. Edit (26.12.2013): I have decided to downgrade the score I gave to 4 stars. Although I waited a few months before writing the initial review (so as not to be biased by the initial excitment of owning the product) and I stand by everything I said before, I have also come to realize through comparison with other headphones that the cable on these could be a lot better. It is both too long and could benefit from being coiled at some point. Like other users have said (and I attest to this): the cable never really stretched properly and although they are working fine I have rolled over them with my chair wheels because of the cable size and its aforementioned unwieldy crookedness.

These things have lasted me for over a decade and are still going with excellent sound.

I use it for music production and mixing and I love it. However, I found that without proper EQ, it doesn't sound as good as I expected. That's why I use the EqMac app, where I found EQ settings by Oratory and Rtings. It helps me to find a balance in the mix. Additionally, I have Audio Technica M50x and I use it with the AD700X to find a nice balance between stage presence and balance in the mix.

From the time I received these headphones when I want to listen to music, these are the one's I go for. Wonderful open back headphones

If you have a small head or even a regular head size this might not fit you well unless you make some small modifications. As far as sound quality goes it great especially if you have a sound card. The dual wing support is a joke they are far too weak to hold the headphones up most people use the rubber band mod to fix this issue. In my case i slightly bent the top support since the headphone dont have pivots so it does put a lot of pressure right under your ears. as far as comfort goes it is terrible when used without any adjustments (stock) sound quality is great it also has a huge sound stage which makes it great for gaming paired with a 5.1 sound card these headphones are top notch. They are also ridiculously light i remember picking up the parcel it felt like i was carrying an empty box. TL:DR who ever designed these headphones should go kill themselves but as far as sound quality goes its really good.

I absolutely love this pair of headphones, it works great, the sound is amazing. However, the size and lack of adjustability on the headphones is pretty awful. I like to think I have a regular, perhaps even slightly larger than normal sized head, and the headphones are still too big for me to use, they get rather uncomfortable to wear after a while, which is quite unfortunate as the sound quality is great.