NightOwl is apt, because the stealthy, silent type that doesn’t leak sound into the environment so you can listen to music to your heart’s content while the rest of the family is watching TV or tuning into kittens on YouTube. The easy and over-simplistic way of looking at the NightOwl is it is a (mostly) sealed version of the open-backed NightHawk. The next saga in the AudioQuest story moves back to traditional audio, as the Niagra power conditioners roll out. As night follows day follows night, the NightOwl Carbon followed in the NightHawk’s clawprints. These, too, were followed by the NightHawk Carbon (a revised version of the original, with the most obvious change being a move from wood-ish ear cups to carbon-ish). First came the Digital Critters (the DragonFly DACs and the JiitterBug, alongside the Beetle that’s still floating around the digital aether), but this was followed by the company’s first headphones, the NightHawk. ![]() It still makes those cables – covering every base from ‘cheap as chips’ to ‘I’ll collect them in my Friday helicopter’ – but has recently diversified its range significantly. However that hard to swollow truth is that there are many cables that are simply COSMIC EXPENSIVE and sometimes they really write some snake-oil descriptions to enchance the product.AudioQuest used to be best known for a vast range of high-performance audio cables. Return policy gives you rights to send back the product if tested it few days and changed your mind or just not happy about it. You can try that easy and almost at 0 cost way - just buy one silver cable (interconnect or HP cable) try it at home and send it back to the seller if you not like it. Easiest way to hear differences in cables is to compare silver core vs copper. Similar way like the water is curving the light, its not 1 to 1 analogy but both 'signals' are analog. In audio cables we have analog sinusoidal signal anyway so the material and construction of conductor does matter wheter we want it or not. I just hear that whether I want it or not. Now the thing about Audioquest Hawks/Owls cables etc. They do not feel tight at all but neither do they feel unstable or I also was skeptical about cables and changes in sound however I had to change my mind after I accidentaly have plugged 'wrong' (not stock) cable to one of my HPs. ![]() I know comfort is an entirely personal and subjective thing but I find these wonderfully comfortable with perfect clamping and ear enclosing dimensions and shape. One aspect I would recommend is the mechanical design. Apologies if that sounds like I am making excuses for a poor headphone. I wouldn't call it the best headphone and I'd hesitate before recommending them to a friend because their tuning is clearly not for everyone but I like them. However there is something oddly comforting about the sound signature if you adjust to it, the detail is there but not as you'd normally expect it and it is wonderfully fatigue free listening. However, it is a very different sound signature and my first impression was very negative, finding it muddy and with a strangled high end. The Nighthawk was quite a polarising headphone, a marmite headphone (marmite is a term here for something which people either love or hate with little in between).
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