The stock short cable included is 3.5mm mic enabled, meaning I can’t use it on normal headphone amps and DAC’s without a garbled sound. Well…can’t win them all, I guess? I am not at all fond of this cable, but I’d rather not express my subjective opinion here too much. Top marks all around for build quality, no doubt about it. It tends to heat up quickly, but that is to be expected again with this type of design. The dark color scheme is also not helping if you are sitting near a window or outside with the sun shining on you. Heat is an issue, but that is due to it being a fully closed system. True, I am not fond of the size of the headband, a pet peeve of mine, it still is very comfortable and can be worn indefinitely. Combined with very soft leather and velour pad options, the experience is supremely comfortable. The grills are 3D printed and the headband suspension system allows for excellent comfort with a moderate clamp factor. ![]() The NightOwl is a marvelous feeling in the hand and exudes both class and style, top to bottom. It still retains more or less the same engineering and articulating design as the NightHawk so they do look relatively similar in feel and form factor. This is a headphone for those who wanted a bit more seal, some more isolation or generally enjoy a closed headphone over more open design headphones. Note you can now get the NightHawk now in a liquid wood carbon design as well as the original lighter colored liquid wood finish. 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. ![]() ![]() To read more about AudioQuest products we have reviewed on Headfonics click here.įast on the heels of the successful launch of AudioQuest’s first foray into headphones, the NightHawk, in comes a new headphone, called the NightOwl. We thank the team at AudioQuest for giving us this opportunity. It is priced at $699.ĭisclaimer: The AudioQuest NightOwl Carbon sent to us is a sample in exchange for our honest opinion. ![]() This win contributed towards Jim Wilson being the leading jockey at the festival, the last amateur to do so.The AudioQuest NightOwl Carbon Edition is designed to complement the company’s original Nighthawk headphones. At the last Silver Buck’s stamina ebbed away and Little Owl was easily able to fend off his stable-mate by a length and a half. Six fences out Night Nurse took up the running, closely followed by Little Owl and Silver Buck and it became clear that the Gold Cup was heading to Yorkshire. With a circuit to go the two Easterby horses were sat second and third behind Diamond Edge. Rated by Timeform as the greatest ever hurdler, he was attempting to do what no Champion Hurdler had ever done before and that is to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.Īs expected, once the tapes went up the 13 year old Tied Cottage went straight to the front and ran his race the only way he knew how, to make every post a winning one, only to depart the race at the 6 th fence. Joint second favourites at 6/1 were Little Owl and his stable-mate the dual Champion Hurdler Night Nurse. Favourite was the dual King George winner Silver Buck. The 1981 running of the Cheltenham Gold Cup had strength in depth, as there was Midnight Court the 1978 winner, Jack Of Trumps, twice runner-up in the King George, Diamond Edge and the moral winner of the 1980 running Tied Cottage.
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