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Originally Posted by calumniate
I find the k-702 is pretty awesome. Can use it for gaming very easily, as it's no slouch for soundstage. It gets criticized a lot but to get better soundstage you're almost looking at the hd800, which I've never tried. The main criticism being lack of bass but it's super tight and detailed.
Sundara was on my list but I have the 400i as well which is quite similar. I don't think you'd have any complaints.
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My brother uses (used?) the Q701 for computer gaming and music stuff for a long time (decade plus). He always said it was pretty good, but returned like half a dozen headphones and headsets he bought trying to replace them. AKG is a great versatile headphone for sure. I gave it to him because it was hard to power those 250 ohm Q701 with a portable mp3 player.
No regrets going down from the Q701 to the Beyerdynamic 770 pros/990 pros, but I wanted something in that realm again. I recently bought a pair of ATH AP2000Ti at half off retail because used. I totally get what you mean when you say you'd probably need a pair of HD800s to unequivocally defeat the Q701/K702. It's crazy that after those $300 headphones, you're looking at around the $1K range to truly upgrade it.
How are hifiman headphones? They kinda look like if Beyerdynamic and Grado headphones had a kid together visually. But how's the comfort and performance? I almost bought them, but ponied up extra for the 2000Ti.