[Beagle]

Available in 2015......big promotion in November 2014.....it's going to be expensive. Design looks very promising.
 
Yup, the cable looks dodgy. If you are making a serious headphone, make a serious cable terminated 1/4" if you want to be taken seriously.

 

[HeyWaj10]

While I'll agree with the 1/4" side, I certainly don't think that cable will look "dodgy" in person.

 

[mrscotchguy]

Available in 2015......big promotion in November 2014.....it's going to be expensive. Design looks very promising.

Yup, the cable looks dodgy. If you are making a serious headphone, make a serious cable terminated 1/4" if you want to be taken seriously.

As we all know from time spent on headfi, any full-size, open headphone is perfect for portable use these days, right?

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

I prefer a 3.5mm cable, with a 1/4" adapter, preferrably of the screw on variety where it looks like it came with a 1/4" cable.

 

[DisCHORDDubstep]

I prefer a 3.5mm cable, with a 1/4" adapter, preferrably of the screw on variety where it looks like it came with a 1/4" cable.

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[mrscotchguy]

I prefer a 3.5mm cable, with a 1/4" adapter, preferrably of the screw on variety where it looks like it came with a 1/4" cable.

Gamers...

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

Functionally-speaking, it's easy to just have a screw on or snap on 1/4" adapter. The same can't be said on 3.5mm adapters for 1/4" cables, since 3.5mm inputs aren't as durable, and the stress of a chunky adapter will break them. You're then left with something like a grado short 1/4" adapter cable which relieves stress on the 3.5mm input but is more cumbersome and likely to negatively affect SQ over a simple screw on/snap on adapter.

 

[MrTechAgent]

 
 
Looks like the NightHawk will be using a modified Fostex dynamic driver.
 
That's not a bad thing.  Some of the best sounding headphones use similar Fostex drivers.
 
Can't wait to hear 'em! 

 

 
Wrong..Fostex-Denon's use BoPET with Nanofiber on top of it.
Bio-Cellulose is a straight copy of Sony who copied Beyerdynamic who knew about Break-Up with BoPET.

Recipe of Old-Technology is what I see with this new AudioQuest.

 

[Eide]

I hope this headphone lands in the HD800 territory of price and quality. I'm looking for a companion to my TH900, but I don't like the HD800s. (Too analytical and bright.) But I do like the looks of these. Hope they sound as good as well.

 

[sm31]

The Audioquest marketing material refers to a goal of "a reasonably affordable cost." I'm all for that, because I think headphone pricing is insane. But I wonder what they mean by "reasonably affordable."

 

[XERO1]

   
Wrong..Fostex-Denon's use BoPET with Nanofiber on top of it.
Bio-Cellulose is a straight copy of Sony who copied Beyerdynamic who knew about Break-Up with BoPET.

Recipe of Old-Technology is what I see with this new AudioQuest.

 
I don't know.....  They look pretty close to me.
 
While the NightHawk may use a somewhat different diaphragm material, it appears that the NightHawk's driver is indeed manufactured by Fostex.

 

[wnmnkh]

  The Audioquest marketing material refers to a goal of "a reasonably affordable cost." I'm all for that, because I think headphone pricing is insane. But I wonder what they mean by "reasonably affordable."

 
From past examples, Audioquest has very different meaning of 'affordable'. Even more so on 'reasonably'.

 

[Billheiser]

As AQ develop the headphone and their costs and pricing, I doubt that our forum comments have any effect whatsoever on their calculations.
 
But as a bet, I'll say hey Audioquest, I'll bet you $500 that you will price it higher than $1000.  Shake?

 

[Arttt]

Night hawk? Sounds like a name of a character from world of Warcraft or something...
Hmmm, always fun to try a new headphone!
For example , Beyerdynamic makes good headphones and sell it with horrible cables, they buy in cheap cables from somewhere else and that's something I don't understand . Why bother making a great headphone and put a cheap cable on it... even with flagship models like t1 and t5p.

With audioquest this problem won't exzist, I hope )

 

[kman1211]

Night hawk? Sounds like a name of a character from world of Warcraft or something...
Hmmm, always fun to try a new headphone!
For example , Beyerdynamic makes good headphones and sell it with horrible cables, they buy in cheap cables from somewhere else and that's something I don't understand . Why bother making a great headphone and put a cheap cable on it... even with flagship models like t1 and t5p.

With audioquest this problem won't exzist, I hope )

Are the cables really that bad on Beyers? Another problem I noticed is most Beyers don't have detachable cables either and the ones that do, good luck finding an aftermarket cable with the proprietary 6-pin Beyer connector. Senns and AKGs tend to have bad cables as well, but at least most are replaceable. True, hopefully this headphone has a good stock cable.