AKG K701 with HeadRoom Fat Pipe Upgrade

AKG has brought their considerable audio engineering skills into sharp focus on their high-end dynamic headphone designs and produced an astonishingly good-sounding pair of cans in the K701 model. Getting it absolutely right at this demanding level of reference-grade audio performance is tough and the K701 gets pretty darn near perfection. These cans deliver a dynamic and punchy sound, articulate and clear over the full audio spectrum. Bass lovers should appreciate the clean punch and tightly focused bottom-end control of these headphones. Classical and acoustic music fans will likewise love the fact that the dynamic control moves right on up the frequency range to distinctly articulate every finger pluck and rosin-on-gut string texture in the sound mix. About the only thing that we can possibly say bad about these headphones is that those who like a very laid-back, mellow or heavy bass presentation might want to look elsewhere since these are certainly highly refined, audiophile-oriented headphones that deliver a smooth impact, textural detail and liquid immediacy that demands your attention. And…oh!...what a lovely demand it is.

How to get it even better? Custom headphone cabling on your AKG K701 will offer even richer musical/timbral detail and a more spacious overall sound. How do we do it? We start with a custom fabricated, highly upgraded Cardas Audio 10-foot cable length, specifically designed, trimmed, tinned, and finished for AKG K-701 headphones. Then we carefully disassemble the 701s and remove the stock cable. We get rid of a couple of extra connections and solder joints; thread the longer right channel cable through the headband; and join the new cable to the driver terminal blocks. The result is a completely professional and fully warranteed upgrade that will long serve your listening pleasure.

Our HeadRoom connector cables are hand-terminated in our Bozeman Montana plant by highly skilled technicians using only the very best materials available. No cheapo, noisy wiring here, babe! The Cardas Audio 'Fat Pipe' geometry is a four-conductor with braided shield cord featuring Golden Ratio, oxygen-free, pure copper Litz wire with pure teflon dialectrics just like the stratospherically-priced big boys. The connectors are terminated by hand using Cardas Ultra Pure Quadeutectic solder. The connectors are mechanically inert, fully isolated from electrical noise, and completely resonance-free, producing a very quiet, musical and superbly accurate headphone cable capable of beautiful sound reproduction.

*The additional costs on this headphone as seen below are comprised of our in-house HeadRoom labor charges for disassembling the AKG k701 hard-wired headphones, replacing with the new Cardas Audio Fat-Pipe cord, (in the process removing some internal earcup wiring contact points), and restoring the 'phones to brand-new condition; it's a professionally finished & fully warranteed cable upgrade done by our best HR techs.