Top marks all around for build quality, no doubt about it. It tends to heat up quickly, but that is to be expected again with this type of design. The dark color scheme is also not helping if you are sitting near a window or outside with the sun shining on you. Heat is an issue, but that is due to it being a fully closed system. True, I am not fond of the size of the headband, a pet peeve of mine, it still is very comfortable and can be worn indefinitely.
Combined with very soft leather and velour pad options, the experience is supremely comfortable. The grills are 3D printed and the headband suspension system allows for excellent comfort with a moderate clamp factor. The NightOwl is a marvelous feeling in the hand and exudes both class and style, top to bottom. It still retains more or less the same engineering and articulating design as the NightHawk so they do look relatively similar in feel and form factor. This is a headphone for those who wanted a bit more seal, some more isolation or generally enjoy a closed headphone over more open design headphones. Note you can now get the NightHawk now in a liquid wood carbon design as well as the original lighter colored liquid wood finish. This closed-back very cool Carbon designed headphone is priced at $699.99 and is designed to complement the companies previous semi-open NightHawk headphone. To read more about AudioQuest products we have reviewed on Headfonics click here.įast on the heels of the successful launch of AudioQuest’s first foray into headphones, the NightHawk, in comes a new headphone, called the NightOwl. We thank the team at AudioQuest for giving us this opportunity. It is priced at $699.ĭisclaimer: The AudioQuest NightOwl Carbon sent to us is a sample in exchange for our honest opinion.
It was stated that the NightOwls would sell for £100 more than the NightHawk in the UK, so I guess $100 more in the US.The AudioQuest NightOwl Carbon Edition is designed to complement the company’s original Nighthawk headphones. Whilst the NO is a closed back design and more isolating than the NH I am of the opinion that the isolation is not as high as some other closed back headphones.
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With the NH type pads the NO had a slightly more traditional headphone sound, I felt that the microfibre pads were somewhere between the two but conditions were not ideal for detailed assessment and I was feeding them from an older iPod (my only portable source, but with familiar classical and jazz). The NH will also be updated with the dark grey cups and new cable supposedly whilst quite liked in the UK for its traditional look the fake wood was a big turn off to customers in other markets and the solid core cable resulted in lots of warranty claims. It will come with a different more flexible cable, I believe not solid core, that has a plastic rather than textile covering. The NightOwl will come with two sets of ear pads, one similar to the NH and the other set with a microfibres covering. The cups no longer have the left and right markings impressed on the outside, rather the dust cover within each ear pad is marked with L's and R's. Externally the NightOwl is very similar to the NightHawk except that the cups are a dark carbon grey colour rather than fake wood grain, although made of the same material, and the grills are replaced by a slightly domed cover. AQ asked for no pictures as they were a prototype and the cable was very much a prototype, being the correct cable but with the splitter being poorly fitted heat shrink.
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