Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
Am a little bit disappointed that I received white, as I emailed staff and requested black, should any additional stock become available. The secondary drop suggested that more stock did open up.
Now to the good stuff.
I've always loved AKG and have been using the K550, which is the best closed back I have ever heard at a reasonable price. Nonetheless, the sound stage on the Q701 is brilliant. These give huge bang for your buck. Like anything hifi, the law of diminishing returns applies here. Have tested far more expensive Sennheisers (HD700 and HD800) and they don't sort out messy recordings like AKGs do.
Love the detailed and balanced sound signature. They're far from warm, but its the detail and the shining mids of the piano that I'm after. Not going to undertake the port mod, as the bass levels are spot on for me (although strangely not as tight as the K550), but this is just a personal preference.
Currently listening to Jamie Cullum's 'Momentum', Three Cane Whale's 'Holts and Hovers' and The Wallflowers' 'Red Letter Days'.
I think some of the differing feedback with people will come down to personal preference (not everyone loves the AKG sound signature as much as I do!), while others may come down to choice of amp or if they are using an amp at all.
These aren't bass heavy, but the bass is extremely well controlled. Without an amp, they might sound a bit thin on bass, though.