Akg K553 Mkii Studio Headphones

At this price point, and after having owned 5 studio headphones over a few decades, AKG K240 MKII, K553 MKII, Sony MDR-7506, KOSS PRO 4AA & 4AAA, I have found THE Referred Personal Listening Tool.

Arrived quickly (Sunday FedEx delivery) during Xmas-New Years Holiday week. Co-existing alongside my Audio=technica ATH-M50 for music keyboard use. The Audio-technica is louder, and has always performed satisfactorily. The AKG-K553 MKII is gorgeous with a professional appearance. Clear, pure sound quality. After extensive comparison amongst numerous equivalent brands, I'm quite pleased with my choice of the AKG-K553 MKII. Would buy it again. 5 stars!

Perfect AKG studio headphones

I have 2 of these sweet cases. One for my mastering lab AKG K712 headphones and one for my location headphones (AKG K240 MKII). Protection galore. I highly recommend this case.

These headphones are exactly what I was looking for when I purchased them almost 30 days ago. Basically I like everything about them: The sound is perfect for what I do in the studio, that is a sound and video editing very clear and transparent with a lot of detail. I think these are the best headphones I have ever owned. The AKG K812 headphones are very comfortable, well/solid built, and easy to adjust while on your head. I also like very much a stand that comes with these headphones. I purchase the headphones with the AKG HP4E 4-Channel Headphone Amplifier - all works great!

Comparing this to AKG K240 Studio monitoring headphones it is not as good. But it's very close. This was the only headphone I could find with a removable cable at this price point. Sound quality is very good but not excellent. This may be that I haven't broken the headphones in yet, but the sound stage is stiff and the treble with percussion is a bit muddled without good separation like on the AKG. These headphones have more emphasis on the low-end than the AKG 240's though. Comfort-wise these headphones fit better than AKG from the get-go -- it took awhile for the AKG's to loosen and stop squeezing my glasses to my head. However, I wish the pads were slightly bigger or oval shaped to fit the ears more comfortably. The padding is very soft. Another reviewer noted that the Polsen's 32ohm drivers cannot be driven by an iPad, but this is not the case. I had no issues when testing with normal volumes on an iPad Mini 2. The AKG K240's are 55 ohms in comparison and are decidedly quieter. A good purchase for good quality monitoring.

It's a simple adaptor. It works. not much to it except what you think the fair price is. Fits my AKG 240 mkII:-)

I use these headphones for mix n mastering. The wire they come with also works for the K240 MKII headphones as well.

A good product to keep your headphones. (I have the AKG K371-BT), and they very well secured inside this case.

We love our AKG items, and this is the newest addition to our Studio tools box.