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The impedance on these is only 38 ohms, but unusually for a low-impedance design they seem to respond better when driven quite hard. The AKG K361 has an all in one package that is suitable for quite a number of professionals and is one that can be recommended due to its various functions as well as its affordability status. Mastering is important because it makes your song sound perfect on all devices – in the car, your phone speaker and even on Spotify. Brilliant all-rounder studio reference headphone with a gentle but satisfying bass boost and added Bluetooth features. Whether this is a good or bad enough feature especially with no Bluetooth connectivity attached to it will depend on some users, and with some users, I'd say audio engineers mostly who might not necessarily enjoy having to reach for the connected device to make the required adjustments.
The AKG K371-BT boast a seriously impressive claimed 5Hz to 40kHz frequency response, largest-in-class 50mm drivers with pure oxygen-free copper voice coils, Bluetooth 5. The headphones sometimes slowly slip off my head toward the back, nothing a quick adjust doesnt fix but I do feel them slowly crawling off sometimes.In Sia’s Chandelier, meanwhile, the intentional compression, noise and grainy texture that helps dirty up Sia’s range later on is revealed, as the K371-BT continue to dig up more detail than you’d expect for the money. Don’t know if this post would be considered that; I’m just wondering if anyone here has had the chance to give these a try and what they think? The draw of wireless listening is a big plus if you’re prepared to overlook the compromise in sound quality. In our tests, it turned out that our 2019 Apple MacBook Pro communicated just fine with the K361-BT over AAC, although with a noticeable deficit in quality when compared with the sound achieved when used with one of the supplied cables.
This still sounded a little harsh to our ears at times, with what seemed to be a pronounced bump around the 1-2kHz region, making these quite fatiguing to listen to for long periods at a moderate volume. The transmission range seems decent - whilst listening, we left the computer playing and wandered through the next room into the hallway and up some stairs with no dropouts or degradation whatsoever.There’s something pleasingly enveloping about a really big pair of closed-back over-ears, and if it’s a design you enjoy you may initially rejoice here. Again, this feature is awesome depending on how you are looking at it as it surely makes it an easy enough device to carry about without the thought of having extra baggage to contend with.
jack cables supplied for wired listening, including a 3m coiled cable that some wireless headphone users will have seen only on old landline telephones. The AKG K361 headphone is among the cheapest that you'd find, well that's if you're looking for something that offers quite as much as the AKG K361 does.It’s a minor disappointment but hardly a deal-breaker – and of little consequence if you’re mainly plugging them in anyway. Where the slider and the headband meet, there’s a weak point where it looks like the frame almost comes apart when the headphones are worn.
The AKG K361 doesn't have any buttons or controls on it and it is probably something they thought of to reduce pressure on the headphone or just for an adorable design. This leaves SBC - the ‘lowest-common denominator’ codec used as the baseline standard for all Bluetooth devices - as the only option for Windows users. The headphone was released together with its counterpart, the AKG K371, and even though AKG has now gone further to delivering a kind of upgrade to both devices by launching Bluetooth enabled versions, the wired K361 and K371 do pretty well and manage to hold their own when compared with several other headphones.The trade-off for this though is a noticeable difference in sound quality compared to when using them with a wired connection - but why should this be? Dave has been making music with computers since 1988 and his engineering, programming and keyboard-playing has featured on recordings by artists including George Michael, Kylie and Gary Barlow. It has a trick up its sleeve though, in the shape of two detachable cables also included in the package, but does its ability to be used either in cabled or wireless guises make the K361-BT the best of both worlds? The Verum 1 for example I feel beats all Audeze phones outside of the 4 and offers an amazing tone, FR that many planars pack. Asides from technical features, the AKG K361 does brilliantly as well in terms of physical features though there is one major downside.
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