the work is not only involve in recabling. it also involve some tuning of the driver and element within the driver (reversible)
only the hole drill at right ear cup is unreversible.
anyway
akabane, nicholas had heard it.
sep i think not yet heard it as the headphone were on his brother's hand.

a lot. basically all the internal. like internal damping. internal acoustic film. internal acoustic foam.
driver position.
all i had tried.
getting one of them modified is easy. but getting all altered. and wanna get a good combination is PITA.
i will seriously advice you don't ever mess with the driver.
i have no turning back as i already alter it and found out.. "shhit.. this sounds really sucks compare to an stock AKG701."
and i consider i was lucky to get a great combination of what i alter. material i replaced. to work in a good sound with accurate tonality.
what sep90 wants me to do is.. "maintain the treble and mid of AKG. maintain the soundstage.. and reduce sibilance and increase in bass"

what i tested when recable it with pure copper cable. is the sound stage shrink. although get much more impact of bass. BUT the bass isn't hit deep
it's internal damping makes it sounds soft.
so i took off the internal damping. and it sounds like shit. even much more hollow than the original K701 (i felt the original 701 sounds very hollow especially in mid.)
i put it back again, try different position..
add some more damping at behind of driver... YADA YADA..
including of recabling process. i had opened up that specific K701 for more than 9 times.
and.. honestly. it's a nightmare.. each earcup has 7 screw.. with numbers of hatches and plastic hooks. lol

This post has been edited by PcWork: Apr 3 2009, 02:19 AM

what is APS?
a person?

lol... one and only. i seriously phobia to touch on AKG again.
=X

the neutral and transparency is the nighmare for me to mod and tune. it not only involve recable. but all the driver positioning, spacing, acoustic chamber tuning...
sigh........
so no more AKG 501,601,701 for me.

nope.
dun wanna touch it again. and i seriously meant it.

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Added on April 21, 2009, 1:55 amthe time i spend on it, is just too much. on fine tuning the sound.
with risk that i might kill the driver anytime as the driver can't be place nicely in anythings except it's own enclosure. i have to told my housemate not to even come near my table. and for 3 days i was like maniac guarding my table. lol. if they carelessly knock the table. and i was f***ed up.... some more in malaysia. how much i could charge for that? any price beyond RM 300 might be scolded by ppl. while i work full time for full 3 day tweaking ur 701.


This post has been edited by PcWork: Apr 21 2009, 01:56 AM

then i should at least charge RM 800- RM 1000 for recabling this as what they did oversea.

recabling headphone easily goes to USD250-300

but still a single entry cable.. which is quite a big NO for some audiophile.
and they transfer the audio signal through headband metal.. from left to right side.
maybe that's the best option for monitoring stage headphone as they want it to be convinient. dual entry cable is a bit messy compare to single entry.
but if that's not going to cause problem for u. better get dual entry one.

if u like W3 sound signature.
u definitely hate 701. lol

PS: did u try sep90's 701?

but i mind the mod.. lol
i am not doing it anymore... =)

by the way. ur Beta22 output to balance?
wanna change ur AKG701 plug to balance XLR x 2?