Just as the title says, it is the best headphone for mixing/mastering/monitoring for the money, BUT!- after about 3 weeks buying it, the cable has an electric contact problem ,(effecting the left side of the unit) and no,not at the base of the jack or the 3 pin connector where mechanically it usually takes the most wear and tear.No! It is somewhere inside the cable,and I have managed to detect the exact spot where it is. The cable is not damaged at all from the outside,and I've also taken good care of these headphones,barely using -and thus, moving it much. And the 3 pin desing is although something that we might all see as a logical design choice,but because of the damn connector,I have to buy an AKG cable in this unfortunate case(faulty cable quality) ,which is much more expensive than just buying a long jack-to jack cable. I know that faults like these are bound to happen sometimes, but at least they could've integrated a jack socket instead of this awful thing! I cant affort 10 times or 6 times the price of a cable,that is just a simple jack cable! And what if I buy the replacement AKG cable,(for the extra price)and it would turn out that the new cable is also faulty-or will get faulty just as soon as the previous one? What do I do then? Do I have to switch using this pair of phones to another, just because a couple of stupid engineering decisions? Or hopefully the problem will be sold,if I get the new cable? But then againg, how can I be really sure? otherwise the headphones themselves are amazing, but everything about it's cables and connectors are just a pile of junk. Sorry to say all that.
