Reviews by GirgleMirt

GirgleMirt

500+ Head-Fier
Pros: Comfortable
Cons: Dark sound, uncompetitive at price point
Heard these with Chord Hugo and boy oh boy was I unimpressed...  These are not worth anywhere their price point where their sound is concerned.  Decently comfortable though.  
 
The sound signature is just not pleasant, it's not very detailed or musical, just too dark and there was definitely something weird going on with the bass; rather overwhelming and kinda unnatural sounding, couldn't get passed it, anyway, it's way too expensive for its performance IMHO...  Even at half the price it would have serious competition, at full price there's no reason not to pickup a better sounding headphone...   I just really didn't dig these audioquest headphones...
 
I guess YMMV, as per comments below and other reviews, many seem to enjoy them...  Personally,  Hifiman 400i imho easily takes the cake at ~300$ less (650 vs 350 cdn$).  Even AKG Q701 have much better tonal balance, I think they may even just plainly be just a better headphone...   My advice would be definitely audition and compare them to other headphones, definitely not ordering blind...
h1f1add1cted
h1f1add1cted
Sorry but even this is not really a "review" this guy is right, this head phones are bad, especially for the price, it's a bad joke - that's my opinion. No different source or longer time using these will change anything, if the sound signature does not fit with your taste - there is no way to change anything. If you like dark, muffle, wrong sounding head phones than this is the right choice.
misteral201103
misteral201103
I've been really happy with my Nighthawks but recently heard them via an ifi Micro iDSD amp and my lord that took them to another level, especially with regard to high frequency clarity and definition. To see them dismissed so abruptly here I find quite sad - I would also 100% agree with @FastAndClean : with so little insight demonstrated in this 'review', a complete lack of definition of what was unsatisfactory about the sound, I wonder why the review was even submitted.
GirgleMirt
GirgleMirt
Yeah sorry might not have be worthy of a review...  Tell you the truth I was shocked at their price/performance, and when I saw that 7 out out of 10 scored it 4 or 5, I was equally shocked and just felt compelled to lower the score...  I'm still shocked/wondering how these can be so expensive and sound so off...  For the price, I just couldn't find any redeeming factor to their sound...  Name it, soundstage, imaging, bass, treble, mids, just not good at this price point...  I'll just have to agree with h1f1add1cted in saying that, for me, they just sound bad...  Ok maybe not that bad, just not good, for the price...  :\
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