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I purchased some AKG Q701 phones. I am still waiting for them to come.
The equipment I will be using them with is a Shanling PH100 class A headphone amp. The amp sounds good with my AKG 240 mk2.The CD player I have is a old Rotel RCD-971. I am thinking of upgrading the amp but thing the digital source would be a smarter move. I can get a new dac to use with the Rotel or get a new CD player with a better internal dac. Which should I get. I only have $400.00 to spend. ThanksOH, I forgot, I listen to all kinds of music from classic, jazz, rock, and anything that I hear that pleases me.
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I bought a portable DAC to take the digital output of my iDevices which would also sound good enough to use at home in a pinch. Sounds great. Very happy with it and the cans I got. It is good enough to dramatically show the differences between different makes of very good cans. Very light and small. Wish it had a slightly bigger battery but as I carry it in a bag (or sit it on my desk at work) rather than a pocket, I bought an external 10kmAh battery as a backup and so now I have music all through a 15hr flight.
I have the AKG 701's too. Also have Sennheiser HD-650 at ATH W1000X.
With a new DAC, that has better performance than your CD players internal DAC, you will enjoy both your CD player(using digital output and MP3's especially if you own iDevices products on a different level. Nowadays, very good DAC's are cheap (I have tried JDS Labs ODAC and Schiit Bifrost and the latter is head and shoulders above the former for me)compared to prices a few years ago. Yes, to buy a CD player with a very good internal DAC is not difficult to accomplish, but it will cost much more.
I have some AKG K702s, which don't sound any different than the ones you bought. My advice (and that of some other people) is to break them in for at least 100 hours before you reach verdict on how they sound. I am not a "Golden Ears" type, but I noticed more bass extension and cleaner highs after break-in. I broke them in by playing a CD with a lot of different types of music (including some deep organ pedal) on repeat for 100 hours.
I wasn't wearing the headphones during break-in :)
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