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    Audioengine A2+ with S8 sub, not impressed

    I realize this post is old, but I am going to add my two cents for those that are lurking or searching and come across this thread, like I did. The Audioengine A2+ are extremely WELL engineered speakers for their size. The problem is the manufacturer only provides you with a "get the job done"...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    I understand that, to a degree.  Obviously, if you cover the driver with any material the sound waves have to penetrate it or disperse when it hits it. I suppose I should narrow my question to, how to do you pick such a small frequency range of 3Kh and roll just that off. If you have damping...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    I am personally having a hard time with comparisons of what the NH's can and cannot do. I am slowly discovering that it has more to do with what equipment you have it attached to rather than the cans themselves. However, I will admit that I do not have any experience with other audiophile...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    Interesting.I also use the Jitterbug. The only thing I hadn't tried was taking the Jitterbug out of the equation. o__O  
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    Actually, I can speak to this.  I use the DragonFly Red and the NH. I have not been able to confirm my theory, but here's what I have found. The DragonFly red intermittently produces rich, punchy, clean mid bass like those from kick drums and sometimes it does not. I have narrowed the scope to...
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    Nobsound tube amp impression

    eBay From this guy: www. ebay .com/usr/thetubecenter?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2754
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    It wouldn't the reviewer on Youtube who goes by "Z" would it?
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    I have some tracks that have extremely low frequency melodies that I had only heard through floor standing speakers and separate subs. I was not able to hear it through headphones until I got the NHs.
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    Nobsound tube amp impression

    I just got the Nobsound 08-SE and rolled the tubes for JAN 6688s from 1970.  It is a near ridiculous improvement over the stock tubes. Not only is the sound richer and broader, but the power output has to be near triple.  Why?  First of all, if I turn the knob ALL the way down to the end...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    Well...knowing not a whole lot about tubes..I have "rolled" the tubes in the Nobsound 08-SE headphone amp. I replaced them with JAN 6688s from Sept 1970.  With only a 10 minute warm up, the soundstage is even wider and sound even richer. Also, I had to cut the volume by half what I was listening...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    Should you switch?  Well that depends. From 62 to about 68 all the Beatles recordings were final engineered to be Mono. They released them in stereo, but they lose some of the fine detail information.  I mean, if you record a vocal while playing a guitar on the same track, it's not going to...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    No joke!  I recently got back into Beatles when they released the 2014 direct to mono masters along side of the stereo masters which are less compressed than the 2009 masters. IN many of the stereo masters, the vocals have receded so far in the background you just have to shrug. But in the mono...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    Fair enough.  I just played Swingle Singers III Minuetta Alllegretto and sense no drop in mid-Trebble. It is probably there, but I don't sense any loss in melody and this covers most of the range that exists in human voice from 500 hz to 18 khz. I wish we could share music files. :(
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    I never said it disappeared.  You don't need the graph.  Play any straight Sine log and listen as the volume drops around the 1k to 3k range and then the volume spikes back up. What I was suggesting is that a lot of recordings seem to have that drop. I tested those tracks outside of the NHs to...
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    AudioQuest NightHawk Impressions and Discussion Thread

    I admit that in the beginning of using NH HPs I noticed the sharp drop in mid-treble sound.  The more I used them, the more I realized that a majority of that sound drop is in the recording itself and the HPs weren't trying to make an effort to fix that...like some headphones do when they...
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