Audio Technica ATH-AD700 Review
These are amazing for gaming but not a good choice for music playback due to it’s unnatural tonality. Detailed breakdown of the review: Bass Extension: 30% Bass Impact: 60% Bass Quality: 70% Midrange Quality: 70% Highs Quality: 50% Soundstage: 100% Detail: 75% Improvement with…
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not bad review dude. but the reason why you think the music quality throught these is not good is becuse these are audiophile headphones for used with a GOOD audio music source, eg. a audiophile cd player and amp. NOT a ipod playing compressed mp3 rubbish!!! that it why the music sucks, because the sound of the ipod sucks.
I own a pair of $1,099 custom earphones known as the JH13 Pro. I plug those earphones into the same exact setup and I’m always blown away by the sound quality. I don’t use MP3. I only use lossless audio codecs such as ALAC. Also, as you can see in the video my iPod is feeding a line out signal from the DAC to an external portable amplifier. The iPod is a great sounding player. Well, the iPod Touch 2 and 3g as well as the iPhone 3GS are the best sounding iPod’s.
These headphones are priced fairly low for a reason. You can’t expect too much from them. If I’m waaaay more than satisfied with the sound quality of plugging a very very expensive earphone into my iPod setup. Keep in mind that this earphone being so expensive will show a ton of more flaws in the music, source, etc… I then plug in these Audio Technica’s into the same setup and I’m not satisfied with the sound at all.
Thanks for the review. I think I may end up with the A700′s (not the AD700) since they’re supposed to have better bass. I’ll be using it for gaming as well, but I really want that “boom” effect of deep bass for games like MW2 and such. Thanks again!
I own the HD555s for gaming with astro mixamp how will these compare? and how is that wing shit comfy?
The AD700′s will have bigger sound stage than the HD555′s meaning it’ll be better for providing that surround sound effect. Also, the AD700′s are more detailed so therefore you will be able to distinguish between different sound in the game easier. Those wing looking thingies easily adjusts to your head shape and size allowing the fit to be more comfortable.
iPod sound quality is underrated, me I use Wadia docks. These send DIGITAl to my Chord and BelCanto DAC’s. At this point the iPod becomes a formidable player,besting anything portable with ease.
After my Grace Design and Headroom MAX take over to power the headphones.
iPod used only as digital storage,to feed the DAC’s.
The iPod’s sound quality is underrated in fact. But, your setup bsod4u2 leaves the iPod’s sound quality out of the equation. All the iPod is doing is storing the digital files and sending them off to an external DAC. Any device storing degitial music files will sound the same when sending it off to a DAC. Digital is only in the form of 1′s and 0′s and it either gets there or it doesn’t.
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It is favorable to leave the iPod DAC out of the equation. A high quality external DAC will best any of the built in DAC’s.
Audio Technica makes great stuff. I use the ATH-M40fs and I can’t believe I waited so long to get better headphones (I used to buy those cheap ass 10-20 dollar headphones that would break down in a matter of weeks, lol).