![]() The ear cups are finished in a metallic Porsche Carbon Fiber finish and look very beautiful. They are closed-back headphones with fully wrap-around ear cushions so they provide good isolation from extraneous sounds. 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 headphones weigh 346 g. 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. The closed-back NightOwl Carbon further advances the state of the headphone art, replacing NightHawks sound-diffusing. 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 closed-back NightOwl Carbon further advances the state of the headphone art, replacing NightHawk’s sound-diffusing grille with an intelligently designed aperiodic damping system for excellent isolation of external noise. AudioQuests Industry-Leading Cable Technology Included AudioQuest has designed and refined high-performance cables since 1980. The NightOwl will come with two sets of ear pads, one similar to the NH and the other set with a microfibres covering. 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. 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. AudioQuest NightOwl Carbon Headphones 2015 marked an exceptional leap for AudioQuest and brought an entirely new element to their impressive catalogue. Fast on the heels of the successful launch of AudioQuest’s first foray into headphones, the NightHawk, in comes a new headphone, called the NightOwl. 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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