Just got my Noble Falcon Max! Really impressed with how fast the delivery was from Japan, bought them through Ebay on friday, and they sent me a message almost instantly saying that they couldn't send them that day because it was late friday in Japan. So they sent them on monday, and I got them today, early Wednesday (around 11AM), which is pretty nice.
First impressions are actually really nice:
+ Very detailed and fast, snappy sound - I mean, really really good!
+ Nice, mid-focused tuning - bass focus on quality rather than quantity, more on the faster side but can certainly rumble if the track requires it.
+ Very comfortable
+ Noise Cancelling seems to be at least decent - but haven't tested them out outside yet.
- Case is probably the flimsiest-feeling plastic I've ever felt on a set of TWS earbuds, the case feels like it's entirely hollow and like you could break the plastic by holding it wrong. I'm obviously not expecting it to, it's probably stronger than it feels, but it doesn't inspire confidence from feel alone.
Which of course can be turned around into a plus - it's very lightweight.
Still not sure why Noble wouldn't release these in the West though, I don't know why we wouldn't want this type of tuning.
It feels very much in line with more audiophile tunings - more balanced, bass tuned slightly lower than one would expect on your average consumer-type earbud - which is fantastic. I love bass, and these earbuds actually do have bass, just not the overwrought, bloat-y bass that many of the more mainstream brands tend to offer. But Noble Audio is not exactly JBL or Beats, I think most of the people in the know of Noble Audios products generally aren't the people that are mostly looking for that V-shaped type sound, yet many of NA's western offerings tend to go towards that direction - sure, done a lot more tasteful with better hardware than JBL and Beats stuff (so also sounding a lot better), but still that mid-bass and highs-oriented sound.
