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| Audio Technica ATH-AD700 Open-air Dynamic Headphones | 
 enlarge | Brand: Audio-Technica
Category: CE
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Media: Electronics
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
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MPN: ATH-AD700
Model: ATH-AD700
UPC: 042005141654
EAN: 0042005141654
ASIN: B000CMS0XU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Open-air dynamic headphones for a natural and high quality sound with deep bass and accurate vocal projection | | • | Vibration-proof, 3D capsule support housing | | • | Lightweight aluminum honeycomb casting with a rigid magnesium frame | | • | 53mm neodymium driver, CCAW voice coil | | • | Frequency response: 5Hz-30kHz |
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Product Description
With a lightweight honeycomb aluminum casing and magnesium frame structure, these open-air headphones produce no sense of pressure on the ears, offering a completely natural listening experience. The sound is smooth and relaxed, with deep resonating bass and vocal projection. The self-adjusting wing support automatically adjusts to your head size for easy-wearing listening comfort. A straight cord at the left earpiece terminates to a mini plug with included ?" adapter.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Good sound, but ultimately disappointing headphones December 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really wanted to like these headphones. They sound really good - very clear and three-dimensional. However, notice carefully as you look at the pictures of these phones: The earcups can adjust/rotate about a more-or-less vertical axis, but they cannot adjust/rotate around a horizontal axis. They are firmly attached to the spring wires that go over your head. The only way to make the earcups parallel to one another is to pull them apart until they're parallel. If your head happens to be narrower than that, too bad.
I'm male, 6'1", 175 lb. I have normal size head. When I put these headphones on, the earcups were about an inch closer together at the bottom than at the top, so they clamped against my lower jaw quite firmly, but then there were gaps between the tops of the earcups and my head. For these to fit right, my head would have to be like an inch wider. (No thank you!) There is no way to adjust for this other than bending the rather stiff spring wires.
As I said, I really wanted to like these phones, and I really liked the way they sounded, but the very poor fit on my head and their lack of adjustability were total show-stoppers. I replaced them with JVC HA-RX900, which is a comparable circumaural headphone, but is fully adjustable.
 Very good for listening, not for pro November 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought it because I was curious why so many people (including some studio pros) recommended it and I just could not believe the price.
This are excellent headphones for listening to your computer or ipod.
However, for stereo positioning or freq-dist ithey are completely unusable. I guess we still have to stick to our 702s. It' strongly overemphasiszing above 2.5K, specifcally 3rd and 5th.
I also want to stress that the build quality is way below par. I cut my fingers (literally) on the outer shield.
 A+ Headphones November 2, 2008
These headphones are amazing, simply put. I had been researching headphones for over a month and these just seemed like the best quality for my price range and they certainly have lived up to my expectations. They deliver perfect sound and fit comfortably for hours. Also, they do not require a headphone amp for my Zune so listening on the go is easy.
Very nice sound October 18, 2008
I got these because I wanted a really good pair of headphone and I wanted some that didn't make my ears itch. Problem solved.
The Good: They have a rich, well-balance sound. I like these because of the open-air which doesn't hold moisture in my ears. These headphone also fit very well, no adjusting, though if you started dancing or something they might come off.
FYI: They a bit bigger than I expected, but they don't feel big because of the way they fit. The screen color is purple, perhaps not the most masculine of colors. I might end up taking a sharpie to the screen. Both positive and negative is that you can hear sounds around you. In a way I like it so I don't miss something, but on the other hand drowning out others is a purpose of wearing headphones.
Great sound, large, weird color choices August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been using these headphones for about a full month now for mainly gaming and music. So far they perform superbly and actually worked amazingly well before I bought a new sound card to enhance them. They sound even better now but not enough to justify a $100 sound card purchase. It took about a week to get used to the largeness of the headphones since I have a thin head but they adjusted quite quickly. My only gripe with these headphones is that they look dorky with their gold and purple color design. Who picks those colors for headphones, honestly?! It may have royal colors but they don't really look good with a black case, black monitor, black mouse, and so forth. Just stupid. Oh, they seem super sturdy and I've almost tossed them around a bit and them haven't cracked or made any sign of breaking. The flexibility to them probably has a lot to do with that.
Defintely a good buy and I don't regret the purchase but the color scheme is awful in conjunction with other parts of your computer. Oh, I upgraded from some $60 sony headphones that I bought from 2003 and it was night and day in comparison when wearing these, fyi.
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