Valued customers,
AKG has recently announced their new headphone lineup, comprising of both a revamped line of studio headphones (K141, K171, K240 and K271) and 3 new models (K77, K99 and the new in-ear IP2).
Even more promising is the rumor of the new AKG K702, intended to replace the fantastic K701. While there has been no concrete news as yet, the K701 has now ceased production, and as a consequence of units becoming harder to get, we have stopped ordering from our US distributor. I believe the lack of an official announcement is due to AKG wishing to sell the little stock that remains of the K701 before the K702 is released, to avoid a desperate underpriced clearance of the remainders.
With the sales of the K701 recently passing an estimated 20,000 units, it makes little sense for the new K702 to be drastically different from the original. We suspect that AKG will address the comfort issues of the original K701 with the K702, and leave the rest of the headphone largely unchanged, as previous AKG product decisions have followed the very sensible option of not fixing what isn’t broken, even at the risk of selling some products well past their maturity.
At this stage, we expect stock of the K702 to arrive within one or two months, and to be priced at a similar level to the K701. We will not be taking preorders of the K702 until it is on its way to us.
Secondly, we would like to welcome Stephane to the Headsonic team. Stephane will be managing a complete upgrade of our website over the next month, and the end result should be truly world-class, with a web 2.0 style rating system and brand new discussion forum.
Thanks again for choosing Headsonic.
Dimitri Vasdekis
Director