hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my review of the AKG M 220 headphone so full
disclosure this was sent to me by massdrop for the purposes of a review but
that does not affect any of the things that I'm going to say about this there
are some things that I was a little iffy on and I would let you know
but overall I'm not gonna lie I was actually really happy with these and
I've been on kind of a headset kick lately because my everyday driver
headset that I've been using is kind of getting a little long in the tooth so
I'm kind of actively looking for a replacement and well these are kind of
what I've switched to for the time being so let's talk about the overall
construction you have this very lightweight very flexible as you can see
a headset surprisingly this was much lighter than I thought it was going to
be especially you know how it was told to me that it was you know professional
it was studio grade I was expecting something much heavier than this so yeah
a little AKG branding up there but the the overall construction is very similar
to a lot of the headsets that I've tried you have this tube construction here
which will pass the wire from left to right and this tension wire here which
is self adjusting tension wire to put over your head and keep it in place now
this to me is kind of the Goldilocks of the headsets that use tension wires I
had one that was way way too tight and then one that was so loose that I had it
actually kind of pulled back in a weird fashion just to keep it on my head so
this one actually stayed in place and when I say stayed in place I mean I
tested this very thoroughly through like marathon sessions of both gaming
video editing and even used it for music and movies
which is something I normally don't do but figured I would try since you know
headset got a thoroughly tested and you know I'm gonna keep flexing that because
I'm surprised at how flexible these actually are alright so we're gonna come
down the left-hand side here and start talking about the ear cup and this is
something that I didn't hear a lot of other people talk about when I looked up
reviews of this particular headset they all talked about the band up here and
how its self adjusting but nobody talks about the fact that the ear cup here is
actually gimballed so it swivels a little bit to help it sit better on your
ear so that aids in the comfort of these particular headsets it does use kind of
this faux leather material around the cup itself now the beauty of that is it
is replaceable so you can take this off and change it if you so want it now the
one problem is this the foam backing is separate so if you're gonna replace that
just make sure you don't lose this here I will say that while using them I was a
little concerned about the circular ear cups because I kind of have a love-hate
relationship with them but I will say that these are large enough that they
did not bother my ears at all and make me wish that I had a more oval or ear
shaped ear cup so that's that I also do wear glasses so I will say that these
are comfortable enough and do not disturb your glasses I won't say that I
wear big chunky glasses but I do wear wireframe glasses and these did not
bother me now with the M 220 here this is something new for me they are semi
open back so meaning you actually can hear what's going on so it's not
isolating the sound just into the headset that's both the plus and minus
the minus is well other people will hear what you're listening to but if you're
using these for gaming and doing the land party you don't have to yell
because you can't hear the other people and think they can't hear you so I was
sitting here playing games with my wife and normally I'd be yelling louder than
I should be but with these I could hear her perfectly fine I could keep my tone
of voice down to what it should be and that was a new experience for me that
was that was actually really cool now the semi-open back also helps with
the pleather here because pleather does get hot and
make you sweat the open-back nature allows air to move through that and
keeps you cool like I said I was marathoning with these I went from
editing YouTube videos to playing a little bit of video games to watching
Netflix on my computer I was like five six hours of just having these on and my
ears stayed remarkably cool and like I said comfortable to wear now one of the
big talking points is it has superior soundstage now I looked at that and I'm
like okay so fancy terminology for what what does that mean well not being a
super audiophile myself I looked it up and pretty much it's just the ability of
the headset to give you spatial awareness so things sound like they're
far in the distance or they sound like they're really close I will say playing
video games with these and even listening to music even though I don't
pick up on those things a lot I did with these and that was really cool I will
also say while editing YouTube videos these are extraordinarily helpful
because there's a couple of youtubers that I watch their smaller channels so
they're just starting off getting their things together there's one in
particular that I was watching and I never noticed it before with any of my
other headsets there's a whine like a high-pitched whine that I never picked
up but did when I was wearing these and I think it's because he uses his
camcorder and microphone set up while the camcorder is plugged in now that's
why I don't use this camcorder plugged in is because it causes that frequency
issue with these I was able to pick that up and I don't know if that's a good
thing or a bad thing it's good if you're the one making the video but if you're
watching somebody else's it really hurt I will say the the base is flat with
these you're not gonna get like those boom boom boom sounds but I don't listen
to my music like that so it really did not bother me driver size for these are
only thirty millimeters but size doesn't always matter I assure you that these
are excellent sounding and I was I was actually really surprised I thought that
I was not gonna get the sound that I was going to out of this so moving down the
earcup here you have this cable this cable is a detachable cable it
a mini XLR and we'll try and bring that up so you can see it there we go
mini XLR cable goes right back in there now I will say that it does clip into
place so if you do happen to snag that it will not automatically come out again
plus and minus depending but here's the kicker this cable is long and when I say
long I mean super generous this is just a few inches shy of a 10-foot cable you
can see I have it like all wrapped up there just to be able to get it into
frame so you're really not going to worry about pulling this out of your
headphone here or your computer it does have this 3.5 millimeter jack down here
and like I said it's a mini XLR cable up there it does come with a adaptor which
will be for the 3.5 to a six point three millimeter so you just kind of put that
on there and screw it in place if you needed to so the question is who are
these for so myself being a gamer and content creator I would say they're for
you if you like listening to music I would say they're for you they're
supposed to be mainly for editing music and making sure that you're hearing the
truest sound possible now apparently the m 220s here are based not the same as
but based off of the k 240s which apparently is like the standard for
headphones when you're in a studio so that's kind of cool so for a fraction of
the price of those because let me tell you those are very expensive you can get
these which are lightweight good sound quality and super durable because like I
said I'm just sitting here flip it around alright so now the fun
part let's talk about pricing now these are a massdrop exclusive headset so you
will have to go to massdrop to get them so on massdrop up you are looking to pay
about $50 I'm rounding up for from $49.99 but if you happen to watch this
video within the first 30 days of it going up there will be an exclusive link
down in the description area below which will give
you $15 off bringing these to $35 again rounded up from $34.99 and you know what
at either price these are an excellent headset at $35 I would jump on these in
a heartbeat so with that you also get a 2 year
warranty so if you are somebody who's looking for a good headset and I mean a
good headset I know there's no microphone on this but if you've watched
a lot of my other headset videos for the headsets that I have tried the
shortcoming has always been the microphone so the majority of twitch
streamers or people who do anything like that they have a separate microphone so
you're not missing out really with not having a microphone on this so like I
said if you're looking for a excellent headphone with this semi open back
design it was new to me it's really really cool if you've never heard what
one sounds like I would highly recommend checking out the AKG M 220 headset here
and remember in the description area below if you're watching this within the
first 30 days of it going live there will be a $15 off discount so I have
been Wanderer001 if you have any questions or comments please leave
them in the area below and as always thanks for watching