Sonically and visually a real prize

If you have the AKG K 545 freed from its packaging and holds it for the first time in his hand, immediately stands out the close relationship with the widespread and highly acclaimed K 550 in the eye. AKG itself advertises the K 545 as an update and improvement to its predecessor, but he is much more portable version of the K 550. The diameter of the ear cups has been reduced quite a bit, keep the size of the driver, however, so that the listeners made a lot more compact fails ,

Otherwise, the AKG K 545 is at the same high level as the K 550: The steel headband passes into two rotatable aluminum brackets, in which the earpieces are suspended mobile. The headband and ear cups are covered with very good cushioning made of soft leatherette. The length of the headband can be adjusted to 12 steps and allows the user to quickly find the most comfortable setting. The proper fit of the headphones is particularly important in closed headphones, as only then seal the ear pads and the entire sound spectrum is perceived. A Note for eyeglass wearers: If we use the K 545 while wearing the goggles, it is unfortunately repeatedly to clear Knartschgeräuschen.

AKG has apparently taken the wishes of many owners of K 550 to the heart and the K 545 donated a detachable cable. It comes with two fairly thin cords, one of which has its own microphone and remote control for iOS or Android devices. With each 1,20m length the cable run extremely short, which especially in view of the intended use as a portable headset, however, is quite reasonable. If you want a longer cable z. B. for the operation of the headphones to the AV receiver or TV, it should be noted that AKG is unfortunately departed at the headphone jack side of the mini jack Size (3.5mm). So you can not just use a cable of another manufacturer, but is forced to work with an adapter cable. After all, a mini-jack is on normal jack adapter (3.5 mm - 6.3 mm) supplied.

Sonically the AKG K545 shows up on encouraging a high level, but differs from the overall impression a good deal from the AKG K 550 ex. During this rather strikes up with something more neutral, back Genome Menem Bass, the K 545 with deep, accurate bass, good midrange presentation and beautiful, never sharp-sounding highs for a fuller, spassorientierteres sound experience makes. When operating at a tube headphone amplifier K 545 was able to convince only right and just made at higher levels extremely fun. Here, the AKG is unaware of the music played in each direction and sounds convincing both in opera / classical music as well as rock / pop. Comparing the closed K 545 with the open AKG Q 701 is the stage quite a bit less far and female voices do not sound quite as nice. But that falls mainly on in jazz, opera and classical music, and happens to be the best discipline of Q 701. FIG.

Disturbing is the somewhat too low efficiency. Particularly with regard to the use of mobile devices this could be really higher. Both my iPhone 4s and the iPad 4 I lack a little of the maximum volume. Remote and Mic function properly in both my Apple devices as well as on the LG smartphone.

Conclusion: AKG K 545 makes when almost everything right and provides a very good sounding, portable version of the popular K 550. The sound tuning is based particularly pronounced in the bass range is not so much the predecessor, but which I personally like very much. Only the bit to low efficiency and the thin, slightly inflexible connection cables are still capable of improvement. Unfortunately, AKG sets not even a cloth bag or a case with the cardboard - with a portable device that was supposed to be self-evident.