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Slip them on and your ears are fully covered, with plenty of cushioning, a healthy yet not overpowering clamping force and pleasing levels of physical noise isolation. They are a wired, transportable closed back that apparently measures along with the Harman response quite nicely. One thing I did love about the Cherry Atticus was it's lush colouration through the mid range, it gave me Sony R10 vibes.
The lack of a noise-canceling feature might not be a favorable miss and ultimately makes it a device that can be used mostly indoors or places without really loud surrounding noise. 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. Earlier when I mentioned that the lack of buttons was probably a move to reduce pressure on the headphones, the reference point for that is the lightweight of the AKG 361. If you’re going to go the wireless route with your cans, it makes sense to invest in headphones that support a high bitrate codec like AAC, Sony’s LDAC, or Qualcomm’s aptX.
However, we cannot heartily recommend a product that is frustrating to use or could break before its time. The Achilles heel of any Bluetooth headphone is latency - the delay introduced when the audio is converted by the codec into a transmissible format and broadcast over the air to your cans. It’s a minor disappointment but hardly a deal-breaker – and of little consequence if you’re mainly plugging them in anyway.
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? Why the more universally-supported, higher quality aptX codec is not included as an option seems strange to us. The K361-BT model is a Bluetooth-equipped version of AKG’s standard, cabled K361 closed-back studio headphone . There’s actually space around a cowbell and other metallic percussion instruments in the mix – sonic ingredients and entire musical passages that can be lost through lesser headphones.stereo adapter and a high-quality, blue-grey material drawstring pouch, stamped with a black AKG logo, to keep everything in. Initial impressions were of a good stereo image but not too much high-end detail, with a bottom end that’s decent and not overdone. Everything is tested by our dedicated team of in-house reviewers in our custom-built test rooms in London, Reading and Bath. Also, the portability and durability is another thing to really commend in the headphone's design as it is handy and doesn't make up for any kind of extra luggage.
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. It has a headband pad made with rubber plastic instead of foam you'd mostly find in several headphones and even though this might not be much of a problem, it would've surely been better if it came with foam.The headphone comes with two cables, a short and long one, and well, the long one surely helps to ensure you can move around, to some extent, when you're plugged in. Plug one of the supplied locking cables into the socket on the underside of the left earpiece though, and not only does latency cease to be an issue, but the sound quality improves considerably as well. I've heard just about every "studio monitor" type can under 200 bucks, and this beat them all in FR hands down.
AKG might argue that these headphones could be put to best use equalising your own tracks, in a home studio. No longer needing to be compressed by the Bluetooth codec, the bass region becomes much warmer and punchier, with a much more forward sound in general and an increased degree of high end clarity. I prefer it over the more resolving ZMF Atticus when it comes to FR, bass quality(Atticus sucks here and is fairly dirty) the mid range timbre is better on the 371, Atticus has a rather bumpy mid to treble. 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.Mastering is important because it makes your song sound perfect on all devices – in the car, your phone speaker and even on Spotify. It can be used by audio engineers, vloggers, gamers, podcasters, and just every lover of music that would be interested in listening to really quality sounds. I don't mind the lack of detail compared to the Atticus for example as it makes up for it with it's timbre and FR. The sound quality is good, it doesnt distort at any volume, It has plenty of clarity up top so when you're mixing you can hear what frequencies should be cut, the mids are well defined and the bass has a thick sound to it.
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