Audioquest nightowl
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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. AudioQuest NightOwl Carbon - High-performance headphones made of bio-friendly materials.
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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).
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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. Despite not being the best-designed set of cans compared to what else is on the market, theyre still comfortable as hell. Some of that comes from the unconventional sound signature. Some of that comes from being made by Audioquest, an extremely polarizing company in general.
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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. AudioQuest nailed it w/ the NightOwl Carbons. The Nightowl (NO going forward) and its Nighthawk brethren are very polarizing headphones. A little while back fellow audiophile jaydunndidit mentioned the NightOwl in the context of discussing the merits of the Meze 99 C and the comparing to the Focal Elex. 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. AudioQuest NightOwl Initial Impressions: Life-Changing Good.