AKG Reference Headphones K702 Studio Quality!

0:00 A bit of a video explanation on these guys here

Alright folks, a bit of a video explanation on these guys here. They are known as headphones and for the people out there who don't know what headphones are, these will let you monitor music. In other words, you put them on like so and you'll be able to listen to the music from a music source. Now, okay, we've got the preliminaries over. Now these guys are from a company called AKG. The model is the K702s. I will put a clickable link in the description. Now also, they're known as reference headphones and we'll broach that subject in a second. Now first of all as well, I want to show you size. If you imagine, you stick that one over one ear and that's the size of a CD. They are absolutely huge, massive. But before we look at these, I just want to explain something. Your basic DJ headphones

1:20 Why do they call them reference headphones?

If we look at the milliwatt output, basic DJ headphones can push out. It could be anything, let's say, from 1,000 milliwatts to 3,500 milliwatts. Now, 1,000 milliwatts is equivalent to one watt, so 1,000 is one watt, 3,500 milliwatts is 3.5 watts. Now these guys will only take 200 milliwatts, but don't panic. Now, the reason you have high output for DJ headphones is logically because you have to increase the volume enabling you to, let's say, hear, monitor the music through your headphones over the music that's playing. Reference. Why do they call them reference headphones? Well, these guys are for studio purposes. That's it. You could take these into a DJ nightclub environment and you could probably use them with ease.

2:41 These guys are individually tested and individually numbered

But in a sense, you'd be spoiling the whole philosophy and the whole reason why they were made. These are meant for studio purposes. In other words, the clarity of the sound out of these is to the extent whereby if a guy, a girl in a studio had them on and someone in the other corner of the studio had a needle and they threw the needle or the pin on the floor, the person listening would be able to tell you the precise The audio bandwidth is anything from 10 Hz, which is the low frequency, up to 39,800 kHz, which is the high frequency. 200 mW, 62 ohms. 235 grams. Now these guys are individually tested and individually numbered. They are not cheap, but then again they are meant for studio purposes like I said earlier. Now basically if you imagine a lot of people watching these sorts of videos I do are mainly DJs. Now when we're in a nightclub DJ environment the sound's booming all over the place and all the frequencies are bouncing all over the walls and everything's happening.

When you're in a studio environment, quite often all of the walls will be padded. The volume will be relatively low. It won't be booming loud because the more the sound booms, the more the speakers are moving, the more chance as the speakers move, you're going to miss fractions of sound behind the movement. In other words, as the speaker moves out, you're going to miss for a few milliseconds that sound that you could have heard. Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor.

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