[przem]

I've had NH for quite a while now, will be six months now I think, and they have became my favourite dynamic headphones, from natural, yet juicy sound with mighty bass when needed, to ultra comfortable design, and they only get better.
But they do have one major flaw - they smell funny. I've got used to it long time ago, and I don't find it disguisting or anything, it's just very disctinctive and intense. I've seen some of you writing that the smell goes away with time, and some of you actually like it, but it didn't go away for me. If anything there are days they actually smell stronger than before. I wonder if anyone has similar experience with the smell.

 

[chailee80]

  I've had NH for quite a while now, will be six months now I think, and they have became my favourite dynamic headphones, from natural, yet juicy sound with mighty bass when needed, to ultra comfortable design, and they only get better.
But they do have one major flaw - they smell funny. I've got used to it long time ago, and I don't find it disguisting or anything, it's just very disctinctive and intense. I've seen some of you writing that the smell goes away with time, and some of you actually like it, but it didn't go away for me. If anything there are days they actually smell stronger than before. I wonder if anyone has similar experience with the smell.

It was potent when i first got them but its gone away as time goes on, at the moment i cannot smell it at all. The carry case still has some of the smell its been closed and unused since i got them though.

 

[Krutsch]

   
Excellent! I'll be curious to see how you feel it compares to the Black Dragon. 

 
I probably won't comment on that ... see the quote below 

 

  I was about to express my skepticism about cables....and then I remembered that this was an Audioquest product discussion. LOL.

 
I go back and forth on the sound issue; to be honest, if there is any difference, it's extremely subtle. That said, I am fan of Moon Audio's build quality - I love the way they look and feel and I've long ago accepted that for me, this influences my overall experience with Head-Fi. YMMV.

 

[kman1211]

   
I probably won't comment on that ... see the quote below 

 
 
I go back and forth on the sound issue; to be honest, if there is any difference, it's extremely subtle. That said, I am fan of Moon Audio's build quality - I love the way they look and feel and I've long ago accepted that for me, this influences my overall experience with Head-Fi. YMMV.

I always found the cable thing usually quite subtle, but it's the type of subtle that tends to bother you as something doesn't sound right with the lesser cable.

 

[elnero]

   
I probably won't comment on that ... see the quote below 

 

 
Feel free to PM me.

 

[JMCIII]

I've had NH for quite a while now, will be six months now I think, and they have became my favourite dynamic headphones, from natural, yet juicy sound with mighty bass when needed, to ultra comfortable design, and they only get better.

But they do have one major flaw - they smell funny. I've got used to it long time ago, and I don't find it disguisting or anything, it's just very disctinctive and intense. I've seen some of you writing that the smell goes away with time, and some of you actually like it, but it didn't go away for me. If anything there are days they actually smell stronger than before. I wonder if anyone has similar experience with the smell.

 



Funny, I'd read all these comments, yet when I got mine, they had absolutely no smell whatsoever.

 

[elnero]

 

  I've had NH for quite a while now, will be six months now I think, and they have became my favourite dynamic headphones, from natural, yet juicy sound with mighty bass when needed, to ultra comfortable design, and they only get better.

But they do have one major flaw - they smell funny. I've got used to it long time ago, and I don't find it disguisting or anything, it's just very disctinctive and intense. I've seen some of you writing that the smell goes away with time, and some of you actually like it, but it didn't go away for me. If anything there are days they actually smell stronger than before. I wonder if anyone has similar experience with the smell.

 



Funny, I'd read all these comments, yet when I got mine, they had absolutely no smell whatsoever.

 
Mine smelled funny for the first few days to a week. 

 

[FastAndClean]

Anyone still using the NH with velour pads?

 

[elnero]

  Anyone still using the NH with velour pads?

I wasn't even tempted to try velour pads.

 

[JMCIII]

Mine smelled funny for the first few days to a week. 

Maybe everyone's sensitivity to it is different. Like I said, I had no issues with mine. And once burned in, have made the NightHawks my go to choice for headphone listening.

 

[wuhanclan]

  Anyone still using the NH with velour pads?

No. Full velour sounded too thin for me. I settled on the hybrid ones for quite some time and enjoyed them very much but during the last couple weeks, I've been doubting what I'm hearing and have been switching back and forth with the stock pads. Although I might slightly prefer the stock pad sound, the seal makes it FEEL too closed and I get a mild claustrophobic feeling around my ear, which makes me go back to the hybrid. I'm just a confused individual.

 

[FastAndClean]

   I'm just a confused individual.

Me to, i like them with both pads but with velours the sound is so much open and clear, with original pads sound is so dramatic and powerfull, i can't decide which ones  should i use permanently

 

[knowhatimean]

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Anyone still using the NH with velour pads?

No. Full velour sounded too thin for me. I settled on the hybrid ones for quite some time and enjoyed them very much but during the last couple weeks, I've been doubting what I'm hearing and have been switching back and forth with the stock pads. Although I might slightly prefer the stock pad sound, the seal makes it FEEL too closed and I get a mild claustrophobic feeling around my ear, which makes me go back to the hybrid. I'm just a confused individual.

Being a "modular" headphone makes it pretty easy to see if taking the screens sitting behind the driver's off "opens" the sound up a bit.

I think the slight "backwave" of a headphone's driver tends to dampen the driver just enough to interrupt the sound of played musical motes development of a continuation to the harmonic of the note. I don't care for the transient response of Closed Back headphones specifically for this reason.

Semi-open back headphones get you closer to a more reasonably accurate transient response , but you can get closer yet to a more open sound the more you allow the driver to move in a bipolar manner.If you're not comfortable running your NH completely screenless you.can always make up your own less restrictive of air movement out of the headphones, screens.

I can't think of a headphone I've used in the past several years (HFM HE-6, Senn HD800) that was'nt significantly better sounding without anything blocking the headphones backwave. I think that earpads are the wrong place to change air movement in headphones as it's what the driver is doing that has more effect on how open or closed sounding a headphone sounds.

 

[elnero]

Maybe everyone's sensitivity to it is different. Like I said, I had no issues with mine. And once burned in, have made the NightHawks my go to choice for headphone listening.

 
Yes, just stating that even if there is a bit of a smell it should go away within a short period of time.
 
I agree about them being my go to headphone, I've been on Head-Fi for close to 14 years and this is the first time I don't feel like I'm waiting for the next thing on the horizon. I'm perfectly happy with my set up as is. Mind you, I am curious what else Skylar has up his sleeve but that's about the only thing that's really only thing that seems like it would be much of a temptation at this point.

 

[inthere]

  Anyone still using the NH with velour pads?

Haven't used my velour pads for awhile, but I use my Nighthawk for work and the stock pads make it way more accurate.