Amazon.com: Customer reviews: AKG K52 Headphones

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Light weight and great for hours of listening

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

Purchased to use on Ham Radio and does a great job with very good sound quality. Light weight and comfortable for longer periods of listening. Recommended.

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John Browning

Peaky and possibly fatigueing but comfortable, good for speech

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2021

For my ears, these are too peaky in a part of the midrange, and it fatigues me, almost with any recording. I'm rating this from listening to YouTube plugged into a 2020 MacBook Air, which has pretty good sound. And YouTube's sound tends to accentuate more the lower tones, so it's somewhat of a disappointment that the peak in the midrange on these is a little too much for me.

That said, they are extremely comfortable. I actually use them when I work online doing transcription in a Starbucks that blasts their music, so the sound isolation is quite good. And for transcription, hearing poorly recorded vocals, they're excellent.

It's just that they're too much midrange in a delicate area and it causes listener fatigue, at least for me, when I'm listening to music on them. I much prefer the vaunted Panasonic Headphones On-Ear Lightweight with XBS RP-HT21 (Black & Silver), which, at 21,000+ ratings, still receives a 4.5. They sound better than this $50 headphone, on my particular ears. Everyone's ears are different.

But this is a very solid headphone, very sturdy, I carry it around in my car for transcription work. It's just that I don't like it so much for music. That peaky midrange, ugh. Tires me out. Your mileage may vary.

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James P Hopkins

Light weight and great for hours of listening

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

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Purchased to use on Ham Radio and does a great job with very good sound quality. Light weight and comfortable for longer periods of listening. Recommended.

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Gary

Best value/dollar ratio..

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2023

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These are the best closed back headphones I've run across for the money with good bass, smooth sound throughout the range,and no particular coloration above the bass to the highs. The only two drawbacks would be that for closed back headphones, the isolation isn't the best, especially for smaller heads, and the overall sound character isn't as airy and open sounding with that almost laser imaging that can be achieved with the open backs, which would be at least twice the cost for those for such tonal balance as these. Sensitivity is also decent and not hard to drive with various headphone amps.

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Please don’t discontinue this item

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2024

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These headphones are the best bang for the buck. I have been using them for years. They truly give you the best sound for recording and practicing when you are saving money, etc. I went online and I could not find them, except here.

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