AKG K 518 LE Limited Edition Folding Headphones - Red | 
 enlarge | Brand: AKG
Category: CE
List Price: $139.95
Buy New: $57.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Color: Red
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8.5 x 3.1
MPN: K518LERED
Model: K518LERED
UPC: 885038025061
EAN: 9002761025064
ASIN: B0028N78DY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Lightweight, over-the-ear design features soft ear pads for a comfortable fit that is perfect for everyday use. The isolating ear cups block more ambient noise for a more personal listening experience. | | • | Wide dynamic range and exceptional bass response delivers accurate, high-output sound and makes them the perfect upgrade for virtually any portable device | | • | Unique 3D-Axis folding design allows the K 518 LEs cushioned headbad to collapse along a three dimensional axis so they tuck easily away. |
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Product Description
Closed-back design 3d axis folding mechanism for easy transport isolating ear cups extremely rugged attenuates ambient noise high spl red
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| Customer Reviews:
 Company does NOT honor warranty! January 29, 2010
D. A. Lewis (Austin, TX)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I purchased these headphones for my 16 year old for Christmas. He used them for two weeks and then BOTH earpieces broke in the exact same spot. One earpiece I would have suspected he wasn't treating them properly, but both in the same spot indicated that there was a defect in the manufacturing. I had my receipt and warranty so I didn't see a problem with getting them replaced. I was wrong! This company didn't even want to see the earphones. They told us over the phone they would not replace them. I insisted that they should inspect them, certain they would come to the same conclusion I did. Wrong again. I sent them into the service dept. at my own expense and they promptly told me NO they would not honor the warranty. I could of course buy a new pair from them. I wouldn't spend another penny on this company let alone $140 for defective merchandise with a bogus warranty!
 Awesome December 17, 2009
Whenwillitsnow (Minnesota)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just got a set of these. I love them. they play really loud and have great bass. They also really block out the outside noise. I use them on the airplane. They fold small for travel and just really make my ipod sound great.
 Nemo's MyMac.com Review August 27, 2009
Tim E Robertson (Battle Creek, Mi United States)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
There is nothing wrong with a set of $140 headphones that a $250 set won't cure. If your budget is $140, not $250, and you need on-ear headphones to be compact, folding, rich in bass, and strong in midrange, the "Limited Edition" K518LE series from AKG may satisfy your requirements.
The official description for this model is: "Closed-back earphones with isolating ear cups that attenuate ambient noise, keeping even quiet passages clearly audible." Try saying that a hundred times in rapid succession! It is accurate, to be fair.
What you get for $140 is attractive, stylish, well-built headphones in your choice of color accents: blue, fuscia, green, orange, red, white, or yellow. See photo below for the red version being evaluated.
Its folding, swiveling, padded ear cups are nicely engineered. The "R" and "L" to designate right and left ears are not easily located, which is ridiculous. Once you know where to look, you will remember which is which. Each earpiece slides out up to one extra inch, demarcated in ten increments, but if you have a large head, big hat, or a mountain of hair, the overall fit will be more snug than comfortable. The U-shaped headpiece is internally sprung, but not padded on its underside.
The rubbery cable is only three feet long, which is about three feet too short. Included accessories are a pull-string tote case and a 1/4 inch (6.3 mm) stereo plug adapter. AKG provides a two-year warranty.
Sound isolation is very good. Audio delivery is robust. Bass response is substantial. Midrange "punch" presence is well-focused. High-end is lacking, but these are not audiophile headphones. They are portable, DJ-style, geared to situations where flutes and piccolos are less in evidence than are rappers and pop artists.
If you don't already know how to alter the Equalizer settings in iTunes, do yourself a favor and learn today: Window -> Equalizer. The best presets for optimum playback using K518LE are Dance, Piano, and Spoken Word. You'll get much better high-end presence by customizing your Equalizer to something resembling the screen shot below, when using iTunes.
On a typical stereo receiver, keep the bass EQ at your standard "zero" setting, and boost the treble halfway between "zero" and maximum. On an iPod or other portable player, first try the three presets recommended in the paragraph above.
Careful equalizer tweaking can approximate the immersive, transparent, full-spectrum experience that arrives out of the box with more expensive headphones and earphones. In-ear phones in the $150-200 range sound roughly the same as these AKG on-ear 'phones, but premium in-ear headphones in the $250-400 range vastly surpass K518LE.
For $140, these headphones are good value, well-constructed, attractive, and compact, with powerful bass/midrange audio presence. AKG is a top-tier European company, and MyMac welcomes them to the North American Harman International family of personal and professional products.
MyMac rating: 4 out of 5
Bonus! I wore K518LE On-Ear Headphones during a two-hour walk across and back the cold, windy Golden Gate Bridge. My ears remained warm and protected from wind gusts. Audio output was surprisingly thin, probably due to the relentless white noise interference of of a thousand cars roaring past, but the overall experience was positive. Sound isolation was quite good.
See original Review with pictures here; [...]
 Good Sound - Fits Bad July 21, 2009
shine (Sweden)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I ordered these headphones cause I already had another pair of their headphones. I was satisfied with the sound (and I paid 50 dollars in Sweden that is) BUT they did not fit on my head and I haven't got the smallest head, about size 57. They are to wide on top of the head so when I leaned a tiny bit forward or backwards, they fell off. I recommend this product most for men but also women with quite broad heads, otherwise they won't fit you.I actually returned them to the company where I bought them due to bad fitting.
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