AudioQuest Nighthawk Carbon - BRAND NEW Factory Sealed Box

AudioQuest Nighthawk  Carbon - Brand NEW in Factory Sealed Box

An Immersive, Semi-Open Headphone

The open-back design of NightHawk Carbon’s speaker enclosures—its earcups—enables
an expanded, three-dimensional soundstage with natural dynamics and smooth,
coherent performance that extends into the lowest and highest octaves.

 As with any open-back headphone, the open area had to be protected by a grille to
prevent damage to the headphone’s precision-made internal parts. Traditionally,
this has almost always been accomplished with perforated metal/plastic, wire
cloth, or some other effectively two-dimensional material. While more or less
successful at protecting the headphone’s internal parts, these materials also
tend to compromise the headphone’s performance, reflecting sound back toward
the driver, creating standing waves and resonant colorations.

The grille is three-dimensional and promote a random scattering of
sound—diffusion—to successfully prevent those destructive standing waves.