Audio Technica ATH-R70xa Professional Open-Back Reference Headphones

The ATH-R70xa is Audio-Technica's flagship pair of professional open-back reference headphones. This enhanced version of the ATH-R70x delivers the natural and balanced sound of its predecessor but with refined accuracy and detail, providing a heightened listening experience with precise imaging and depth.

Fully open-back sound relies solely on the performance of the driver, with each diaphragm movement directly translating into sound – without reliance on acoustic cavities or resonance for frequency enhancement. While the ATH-R70x utilized damping and acoustic design for added low-frequency emphasis, the ATH-R70xa delivers pure sound directly from the transducer, offering an authentic open-back experience and minimizing distortion. This ensures accurate, natural sound with realistic sound staging.

Made for critical listening, the ATH-R70xa headphones allow engineers to make the right decision at every step of the production process. With an extended frequency range, every detail of a mix is transparently reproduced. The unrestricted airflow and absence of internal resonance allows for an extremely quick transient response, ensuring the clarity and separation needed to handle complex contemporary mixes.

These featherlight (199g without the cable), fully open-back headphones feature streamlined construction and a new headband design, allowing the headphones to virtually disappear during use – perfect for long working sessions.

The ATH-R70xa is handcrafted in Audio-Technica's Machida facility. Each unit is meticulously assembled from components built in-house, then rigorously tested before leaving the factory.

Whether mixing, mastering, or creating, the ATH-R70xa is the perfect production tool, delivering accurate and dependable reference across stereo, surround, and immersive formats.

I was immediately impressed with the uncolored presentation of the ATH-R70xa headphones. I found them very revealing with a lot of depth spatially. A very wide frequency response that was void of distortion. I was hearing information that I'd never heard before on music I'm very familiar with.

Superb. The ATH-R70xa has now become my favorite headphone for mixing. The quality of the imaging is amazing. And the frequency response is nearly perfect. Amazing low end for an open earphone. The high end is silky and smooth but always there. And the midrange - wonderful. I own some of the world's most expensive high-end headphones and these belong with the best. I can't praise them enough. These heaphones defy physics!

I generally use closed-backs. These ATH-R70xa open-back headphones were remarkable. I listened to something I had done and knew very well. The sonic characteristics were clearer than I could imagine. Impressive.