Topic: AudioQuest NightHawk impressions? (Read 11545 times)

Musical_Element · « **Reply #60 on:** July 10, 2015, 09:53:21 AM »

I get that with a lot of headphones. The £200-700 price point is just full of flavours and not really any upgrades overall.

audiofrk · « **Reply #61 on:** July 10, 2015, 06:20:51 PM »

Hey there seems to be some confusion on terminology we have a thread for it here

http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,2468.msg68830.html#msg68830

Griffon · « **Reply #62 on:** July 12, 2015, 12:38:25 AM »

OK I've got back an the impressions of NH just got worse.

1. There's definitely a strange dip somewhere in the upper midrange, which makes female voice almost unlistenable;

2. The NH isn't very revealing of source quality, which is a bad thing in my book;

3. It echoes and doesn't have a sense of air of open-back headphones

OJneg · « **Reply #63 on:** July 24, 2015, 06:07:33 AM »

Boy, it sure would be nice if the marketing people at Audioquest could organize a NightHawk loaner to send around to some of the more experienced SoCal pyrates. It would be so easy given the proximity! I think that could clarify the somewhat mixed impressions that are out there on the internet. I for one am excited to sit down with the Nighthawk in my own listening environment and be able to run it through the gauntlet.

if you agree

Schopenhauer · « **Reply #64 on:** July 24, 2015, 06:13:22 AM »

Quote from: OJneg on July 24, 2015, 06:07:33 AM

Boy, it sure would be nice if the marketing people at Audioquest could organize a NightHawk loaner to send around to some of the more experienced SoCal pyrates. It would be so easy given the proximity! I think that could clarify the somewhat mixed impressions that are out there on the internet. I for one am excited to sit down with the Nighthawk in my own listening environment and be able to run it through the gauntlet.

if you agree

lachlanlikesathing · « **Reply #65 on:** July 24, 2015, 07:00:47 AM »

I had a very brief listen at my local headphone store.

I wasn't very impressed. It sounded quite lush and somewhat congested. I couldn't imagine buying it over say the Shure SRH1540, which has a somewhat similar tonality but with a less confused midrange. It also had a weird adjustment mechanism that felt like it was constantly pulling 'up' on my head. Fresh out of the box though.

audiofrk · « **Reply #66 on:** July 24, 2015, 04:15:37 PM »

I probably shouldn't be involved in the loaner I'd want to test my theory the the sonic imperfections are due to the rubber enclosure around the driver. I think it's causing inflections and distorts the bass.

Marvey · « **Reply #67 on:** July 24, 2015, 07:08:43 PM »

Did they ever tweak it to have less bass? I believe a few people here, including Tyll, had mentioned to Skylar directly that the NightHawk had too much bass / warmth that intruded into the mids.

What I heard had some serious potential.

Musical_Element · « **Reply #68 on:** July 25, 2015, 10:27:53 AM »

Still didn't get to hear these. The impressions are still all over the place. Some say lush and thick and others say detailed and natural. Will definitely have to try these. One aspect that seems common in peoples impressions is they upper mids seem recessed.

Anaxilus · « **Reply #69 on:** July 25, 2015, 04:04:39 PM »

They did appear to have different synergy with different amps.

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