PSA to all metal heads. This headphone is really good for Metal music. Nice neutral even response. Sub bass to bass is quite powerful but the mid bass is neutral with the rest of the frequency response which means these never sound boomy. Guitars have a lot of grit, these have pretty good vocal intimacy, everything seems well separated despite the soundstage being narrow. So far I really like these. Now to test the gaming performance.
Not sure if you can see it in the picture but thereās a small dent on the driver. Mine still works perfectly fine and I havenāt noticed anything wrong with the sound. This could be why some people have issues with the sound of there unit.
Is this a good representation of the harman target? Is there anything better specifically for that under $500 cad ($380 usd)?
This is a pretty solid option to get a taste of harman lol, can recommend if you want that
Yeah Iād like a reference for that Iām thinkingā¦ and theyāre at a local store hereā¦ very surprising
Thanks mon
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Just sayinā (grin) ā¦
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Lol, have you picked them up yet?
Nope. The latest Harman target jest aināt ma thang. But if it were itās always just an EQ change away.
OTOH, I could always cover a cardboard box with marble-pattern shelf paper, put my laptop inside, run the K371ās cable through a hole in the box and tell people theyāre listening to a $70K Orpheus headphoneā¦
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Well, I would say anyone who has experience with even decent headphones wouldnāt believe that lol, but it would be very fun to do to uninformed
What? You own the K371 and youāve heard the Orpheus. You tellinā me thereās an actual difference? The king really has new clothes, lol? Ya gotta be kidding, grin.
Lol, idk, Iām sure someone would fall for it eventually
how do these compare to a Sennheiser HD650?
The k371 is pretty much a perfect
harman target signature so the bass and treble are more elevated whereas the hd650 is mid forward and darkā¦ quite different but both really nice
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Can it keep up in detail, resolution, soundstage and imaging with the HD650? Or is it a class lower like HD58x?
its a tier under the hd650 in terms of technicalities imoā¦ soundstage is about the same though
How about the sound leakage? Would others hear what I am hearing? And would I sweat in these? (not doing any sports, just studying)
When you search for graphs on google images just to find your own shitty photoshop-clone jobs on your favorite forum. 
Looks like I completely forgot to answer you. Turns out that, since then, I got HD58Xs and realized these were too bright for me, same for KZ ZS10 Pros, but my old HD280 Pros were just perfect for me ā and were basically harman without 10khz+ treble. So buying K371s or K361s, for me, with all the random peaks above 10khz, would be a coin toss.
As much as I love 10khz treble and āairā, Iāll enjoy it on my Fluance SX6s and other future speakers, but now I avoid āneutral to 20khzā headphones.
Also, for info, thereās now the AKG 361-BT and AKG 371-BT, and these do not use DSP (that would be stupid for something advertised as harman-tuned and studio-ready, too).
Anyway, bluetooth without DSP is rare andā¦ under appreciated. Thatās nice to see (and hear).
Soā¦ thatās the cheap version of Drop Pandas. BT5.0 but no AptX/LDAC/whatever, as far as I know.
Just got them today Iām fkin shocked, I feel bad about my HD 598sr now.
The sound is so good the vocals itās so fkin close to the real sound Iām speechless and even tho they have pretty 0 bass they still sound very good with edm music.
Not more comfortable than the hm751 tho not even close.
I feel sad that Iām gonna give them back at some point cuz Iām gonna pick up the COPP cuz I need some bass monsters.
And they sound so gawd damn good from my phone to JEZUZ
I feel like I canāt go back like Z said itās like that time morty was on a perfectly flat thing and he couldnāt go back anymore.
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Holy crap I love these, not even an hour in
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