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guyvik · Jan 5th, 2007, 05:44 AM

Hi there.
I have recently been borrowing my mates MDR-v700's and thought they were amazing, so as most people do these days, i logged onto ebay to try and get a bargain. Surprisingly enough i found a pair just like my mates and even better news is that they were the model up- the MDR-Z700's, and were only £25-bargain!
Now i should have known better than to not check them out on the actual Sony website first, but they seemed to good to miss out on, so went and bought them.
Anyway, they arrived today and i eagerly opened the strange boxing, only to find a pair which felt totally different to those which i had been using for the last month or so!
For example, they are much lighter and feel really cheap, the padding around the headphones is totally different to the MDR-v700's, the coil is a lot shorter (which i hate) and for some odd reason they havent got 'made in Japan' written on them anywhere!!
So as you can imagine i was fuming, i quickly logged onto both the UK and American Sony websites and couldnt find the MDR-z700's anywhere!
Then i thought i'd try my luck on the Japanese Sony website (hoping there were lots of pics!) and sure enough i found the headphone section and even found the MDR-z700's! Now i cant post the thread onto the site because i am a new user, but if you go onto the japanese sony home page and type in headphones in the top lefthand corner and click the orange box next to it and then click the very first heading, you will then see a DJ logo on the right-click on this and you will then see the MDR-Z700's.

It seems as though they are a cheap version of the V700's, i dont like them nearly as much and the sound quality is definately worse.
I personally would stay clear of these cheap versions, but at least for piece of mind i know they are real!

Hope this helps!

Jan 5th, 2007, 05:44 AM	#15 (permalink)
guyvik Addict in Training Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: uk Posts: 1	The truth about MDR-Z700's!!! Hi there. I have recently been borrowing my mates MDR-v700's and thought they were amazing, so as most people do these days, i logged onto ebay to try and get a bargain. Surprisingly enough i found a pair just like my mates and even better news is that they were the model up- the MDR-Z700's, and were only £25-bargain! Now i should have known better than to not check them out on the actual Sony website first, but they seemed to good to miss out on, so went and bought them. Anyway, they arrived today and i eagerly opened the strange boxing, only to find a pair which felt totally different to those which i had been using for the last month or so! For example, they are much lighter and feel really cheap, the padding around the headphones is totally different to the MDR-v700's, the coil is a lot shorter (which i hate) and for some odd reason they havent got 'made in Japan' written on them anywhere!! So as you can imagine i was fuming, i quickly logged onto both the UK and American Sony websites and couldnt find the MDR-z700's anywhere! Then i thought i'd try my luck on the Japanese Sony website (hoping there were lots of pics!) and sure enough i found the headphone section and even found the MDR-z700's! Now i cant post the thread onto the site because i am a new user, but if you go onto the japanese sony home page and type in headphones in the top lefthand corner and click the orange box next to it and then click the very first heading, you will then see a DJ logo on the right-click on this and you will then see the MDR-Z700's. It seems as though they are a cheap version of the V700's, i dont like them nearly as much and the sound quality is definately worse. I personally would stay clear of these cheap versions, but at least for piece of mind i know they are real! Hope this helps!