ATH-AD700X Audiophile Open-Air Headphones Black

Initial impressions are great, they're very light, sound great and easy to drive even using a smartphone. What's holding it back is that for an open back pair of headphones, the soundstage isn't nearly as spacious as the reviews made it out to be, still for the price these are excellent. For comparison, I'm coming from a pair of bose quietcomfort ultra's.

If hunting for open air HP, this should be on your list.. nice wide soundstage, excellent highs and lows.. very speaker like.. easily driven.. I normally use it with a chord mojo but even with an ipod touch, you can get enough volume at 50% level.. super comfortable.. no clamp, very good fit Right now my go-to pair (in comparison to HD598 HD650, K701, K702, PS500)

Je recommande por son rapport qualité/prix.

El sonido es excelente, pero hay muchos auriculares que se pueden preciar de eso. Lo que distingue a Audio Technica es el no tener una banda superior, sino la famosas "alas", mucho más cómodas. No he probado los AD2000X, pelo estos son mucho más nítidos que los Sennheiser HD 598.

Fone excelente. Conforto impecável e som de primeira. Tem uma assinatura sonora semelhante ao M40x porém, por ser aberto, tem uma espacialidade muito melhor e o som embola menos do que nos M40x, que tem mais graves mas com uma pressão que me causa dor de cabeça após algumas horas de uso. Pra quem quer um fone de entrada e não busca um isolamento sonoro está recomendadíssimo.

I grew up amongst a bunch of stereophiles, dwelling in speaker boxes, horns, electrostatic and ribbon speakers from brands like Roger, Audio Research, Apogee, Krell, etc......as well as vinyl turntables, vacuum tube amplifiers. So I only knew speakers could sound really really good. And the recording makes a huge difference as well. Before this pair of ATH-AD700x, I already had a pair of ATH-EM7 on ears since 20 years back. They sound ok, but never like the speakers. Fast forward 20 years, my gal asked for a pair of headphones. She had never heard of Audio Technica before this and after letting hear my 20 yr olds ATH-EM7, she was shock that such an old pair still sounded so good. So she finally chose a pair of ATH-ANC900BT (tha all black one). Gosh I was amazed by the sound quality. Definitely better than my 20 yr old EM7. Then I went on a small spree and got myself a cheap pair of ATH-AVS200 (for movies), a pair of ATH-EQ300M (modern version of the EM7), and a pair of ATH-250AV (for movies). The AVS200 and 250AV sounded better than most headphones, but defniitely not as good as the ANC900BT. Then I compared it with my wife's pair of ATH-WS660BT (which seems to have more bass than the ANC900BT), and also my nephew's Sony WH-1000XM5. The 1000XM5 has plenty bass and good for someone who loves bass, but pales in comparison with the AD700X and the other Audio Technicas. The AD700X (IMO) beats even the ANC900BT and the WS660BT (which are more dynamic). The recording definitely makes a difference. Listening to mediocre recording on the AD700X sounds similar to listening to high fidelity flac recordings on the AVS200 or 250AV. Or like the ANC900BT or WS660BT on average recordings. The AD700X with hi-fi flac recordings just sound sublime, crystal clear. Really the monitor headphones you would want to have. They elevate mediocre recordings. Now I wondering how will the AD900X/1000X/2000X will sound like. Or how the A1000X or W1000Z will sound like. I cannot imagine.

The Audio Technica AD1000X is an amazing sounding open headphone with great clarity and separation of sound, has great highs, not too much bass but it's there and it's good, everything's in the right place sound quality wise and they're easy to power. To get the best, most optimal listening experience out of them you should only get these if you're looking for headphones to listen to while you're at home or other isolated environments since their driver is practically exposed so you will hear everything around yourself as if you weren't wearing them at all, and they leak A LOT of sound so you will definitely disturb anyone in the same room or behind a poorly isolated wall. If this is a problem for you or you need something portable then look for a closed or at least semi-open pair of headphones or something that's meant to be portable. Big downside for many people might be that the cable is NOT detachable, but it's a nice, long, high quality cable with a robust metal connector and the build quality of the headphones themself is very good as well. One thing I must note is that while the pads on them are comfortable, they're relatively thin and due to the size of the earcups and their round shape your ears will most probably touch the drivers and this can get very uncomfortable or slightly painful for some(I can't speak for everyone since everyone's head and ears are different), but someone on Ebay is selling very good thick replacement pads for the AD series which can fix this easily without altering the sound at all(I think for me they actually lowered the amount of sound leak a bit). It took me a while to choose a pair of headphones in this price range but now that I have them I am definitely very satisfied.