Over-Ear
AKG K1000
Not yet scored
$700
Full review dataAKG K1000 vs Audeze Maxwell 2 ANC: which should you buy?
Specs, scores and condensed review verdicts for the AKG K1000 vs Audeze Maxwell 2 ANC, side by side. Where a product has no HearWiki score yet, not enough reviews have been aggregated to rate it.
Score breakdown
Each axis is a 0–10 blend of what reviewers scored, not a lab measurement.
Audeze Maxwell 2 ANC leads on 7 of 7 measures.
- AKG K1000
- Audeze Maxwell 2 ANC
HearWiki score
-
88
Sound
-
9.3
Noise cancelling
-
8.5
Battery
-
8.0
Calls
-
9.0
Value
-
6.5
Price (USD)
$700
$430
Generation & platform
The scores rank quality. This is the other question: is the newer one actually newer technology, or the same platform in a new shell?
Same generation
These are the same generation of hardware - nothing in the radio, the codecs or the noise cancelling separates them. The platform is level; the newer hardware shows up in convenience features instead - the Audeze Maxwell 2 ANC adds USB-C.
- K1000Year unknown
- Maxwell 2 ANC2026
What differsK1000Maxwell 2 ANC
- USB-C
- No
- Yes
Everyday features
Specifications
K1000Maxwell 2 ANC
- Type
- Over-Ear
- Over-Ear
- Price (USD)
- $700
- $430
- HearWiki score
- Not scored
- 88
- Released
- -
- 2026
- Availability
- Availability unknown
- Sold new
- Driver
- dynamic
- 90 mm planar magnetic
- Driver type
- dynamic
- planar
- Driver size
- -
- 90 mm
- Drivers per side
- -
- 1
- Frequency response
- 30 Hz - 25 kHz
- 10 Hz - 50 kHz
- Impedance
- 120 Ω
- -
- Sensitivity
- 74 dB/mW
- 115 dB/mW
- Bluetooth
- -
- 5.3
- Codecs
- -
- SBC, AAC, LC3, LC3plus, LDAC
- Multipoint pairing
- -
- Yes
- Battery life
- -
- 40 h
- Battery life (ANC on)
- -
- 35 h
- Full charge time
- -
- 120 min
- Active noise cancelling
- -
- Yes
- ANC type
- -
- adaptive
- Transparency mode
- -
- Yes
- Companion app
- -
- Yes
- Custom EQ
- -
- Yes
- Wear detection
- -
- No
- Controls
- buttons
- both
- Weight
- 270 g
- 560 g
- Detachable cable
- Yes
- -
- USB-C
- No
- Yes
- Balanced connection
- Yes
- -
- Microphones
- -
- 2
- Call noise reduction
- -
- Yes
- Call NR technology
- -
- AI ENC
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