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Originally Posted by DoubleF
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.
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The hifiman 400i are very different from the k702. They seem to have quite a bit more bass and less soundstage. But the end result is a very warm 'in your head' type of experience. I actually like how different they are. Comfort wise I modded the headband and if I were to purchase again would probably go with the sundara that seems to have the better strap.
Sorry to all the people in this thread that are more interested in 'hifi' and not ~$250 headphones lol.