Exterior Sound with ATH-AD700's

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HI Folks,

After looking around on CyberGamer and other forum sites it seems the ATH-AD700's are the best out there. I am wanting to purchase them soon however one question that isn't answered (not that I have found) is how much sound actually can be heard outside of the headphones due to them being open ?

Any comments/feedback would be appreciated, thanks.

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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Not much

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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depends how loud you have them.

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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Same as any other open headset.

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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Quote from eDGe~ on the 23rd of January 2012:

Same as any other open headset.

Some are worse than other...

My K702's are like speakers lol.......

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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Quote from eDGe~ on the 23rd of January 2012:

Same as any other open headset.

I personally have only used closed ones before (G35, yeah I know

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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I've got them.

Quite a bit of sound can be heard outside the headset. Great headset though.

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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owned two pairs, very little can be heard.

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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thanks for the opinions, think I will go ahead with them.

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012

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If there's a bedroom door between you and whoever you dont want hearing your music and games they can't really hear you. But if you're next to sleeping people or in a common area they'll hear everything that goes on.

Posted on Tuesday, 24th January 2012

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Quote from l_w_88 on the 24th of January 2012:

If there's a bedroom door between you and whoever you dont want hearing your music and games they can't really hear you. But if you're next to sleeping people or in a common area they'll hear everything that goes on.

Could be a problem as someone works behind me, but I will see how it goes I guess. Pretty much the only choice of headphone I have considering no closed/gaming headset is worth its grain of salt.

Posted on Tuesday, 24th January 2012

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ATH-AD700's are sweet, but i prefer the 900's (closed) for lan / when idiots with chainsaws outside.

Posted on Wednesday, 25th January 2012

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I have the ATH-A900X. It leaks nowhere near as much sound as my Sennheiser HD595's did (which are open headphones). As long as your in game sound isn't ridiculously high, the sound leak is quite minimal.

Posted on Wednesday, 25th January 2012

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