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, ensuring privacy for the listener and those nearby. While NightHawk’s many innovative design elements-Liquid Wood earcups, biomimetic sound-diffusing grilles, and high-performance solid-conductor cable, to name just a few-have impressed listeners worldwide, many have expressed interest in different paint finishes, more versatile cables, and closed-back designs.ĪudioQuest takes the first of many steps toward satisfying those interests with two new around-the-ear models: NightHawk Carbon and NightOwl Carbon. This is evidence of the intensifying convergence between the high-fidelity and high-technology worlds, and testament to NightHawk’s uncanny ability to captivate and inspire a diverse audience of thinkers, builders, engineers, and, of course, music lovers. Offering a unique combination of unsurpassed comfort, state-of-the-art design, and naturally beautiful sound, AudioQuest’s first headphone, NightHawk, has been lovingly featured in the pages of magazines and websites as far-reaching as Stereophile, Rolling Stone, CNET, Wired, Head-Fi, Digital Trends, The Verge, HomeTheaterReview, Sound & Vision, and many more.
In the meantime, here’s the release from AudioQuest: I’m looking forward to checking these out at the next show. This headphone is purposefully still framed within the overall/original design brief - so, I’m thinking of it more of as a “hefty update” to the NightHawk than a whole new thing. But if the kids are sleeping, or the train/plane/automobile is crowded, getting your Steve Bug on while your stuck in the middle of it is a sweet thing.Īlso on deck is the NightHawk Carbon. NightOwl will be the name for the fully closed-back, circumaural cans - which is a very clever zoological reference, because you see, owls fly silently. The most notable - and obvious - change is that NightHawk is no longer alone in the AudioQuest headphone lineup. Long story short - they’ve went ahead and made them and made them better. NightHawk isn’t all that long-in-the-tooth, but advances and refinements wait for no … something something something.
Just got the word that AudioQuest is refreshing their headphone line.
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