The AKG K812 is a beautifully produced studio headphone model. Wearing comfort is taken to new levels with this essential, while the sound capabilities are more or less free of any weaknesses worth noting.

Andy Jones finally gets hold of the AKG K812 headphones, said to be the ultimate reference headphones. Well, they should be at that price…

My first serious headphone was an AKG and I have always had a bit of nostalgia for the brand. However, through endless iterations, and since the early days of K1000, AKG produced more of the same.

These headphones are exactly what I was looking for when I purchased them almost 30 days ago. Basically I like everything about them: The sound is perfect for what I do in the studio, that is a sound and video editing very clear and transparent with a lot of detail.

I have auditioned a lot of the current TOTL headphones on the market. In that price range, AKG K812 is the headphone to sought after if you want something that is very pure, very revealing, while at the same time very holographic and very musical.