Forget about making backhanded compliments about "For a 'such & such' headphone. I was going to ask if youre letting them play a few hours every day through some means of putting a player of some type on Auto Play & just let them. But Ill need a few weeks with NO to flesh out the sound before making those comparisons. 1 more thing these headphones are anything but simply Open Backed & Closed Backed designs (He,he.he. Working on a review with eventual comparisons. Noticeably better ? That might just be how it works for someone's definition of what Soundstage should sound like to them. Soundstages simply don't exist in real life to the semi-infinite degree of openness that a lot of people like to think of as Soundstage (The recording location would have had to been several times larger than it actually was & that's being conservative). It may be easier to hear more non specific non localized sound coming from a generalized area location, but for it to be actual SS information you have to be able to hear some specific inner localization of sound for it to be Soundstage information. I look at statements about the SS being created by one design versus the other as being "noticeably better" as being an individually subjective. AudioQuest Big Sur: 129.95/1m AudioQuest Golden Gate: 79.95/1m AudioQuest Evergreen: 39.95/1m AudioQuest Tower: 29.95/1m AudioQuest's Bridges & Falls interconnects (of which these are the four least expensive models) put left and right channels in a single cable, thereby minimizing manufacturing costs while maximizing termination. However that hard to swollow truth is that there are many cables that are simply COSMIC EXPENSIVE and sometimes they really write some snake-oil descriptions to enchance the product.I'm pretty sure I know what open as opposed to closed backed headphones are doing to handle the sound differently specific to how much of the frequency spectrum response is (normally) allowed to resonate in either design. Return policy gives you rights to send back the product if tested it few days and changed your mind or just not happy about it. You can try that easy and almost at 0 cost way - just buy one silver cable (interconnect or HP cable) try it at home and send it back to the seller if you not like it. If your someone that thought the Nighthawk. They are likely one of the few truly audiophile quality closed headphones you could buy. The NightOwls at 699.00 will give you exceptional sound and terrific value. At 1499.00 USD the Ether Cs are flagship priced too. The soundstage still sounded pretty much the same as the hawk which is great for a closed headphone and over all I'm really liking this headphone a lot. The Ether Cs are faster and are my choice for king of the closed headphone world. Easiest way to hear differences in cables is to compare silver core vs copper. The bass which is one of my favorite parts of the Audioquest headphones was still punchy and thumping but had a bit more control than the Nighthawk. Similar way like the water is curving the light, its not 1 to 1 analogy but both 'signals' are analog. In audio cables we have analog sinusoidal signal anyway so the material and construction of conductor does matter wheter we want it or not. I just hear that whether I want it or not. Now the thing about Audioquest Hawks/Owls cables etc. They do not feel tight at all but neither do they feel unstable or I also was skeptical about cables and changes in sound however I had to change my mind after I accidentaly have plugged 'wrong' (not stock) cable to one of my HPs. I know comfort is an entirely personal and subjective thing but I find these wonderfully comfortable with perfect clamping and ear enclosing dimensions and shape. Source: CHORD Hugo2Go, CHORD Mojo2Poly in 3D printed case Headphone: Focal Clear w. One aspect I would recommend is the mechanical design. Apologies if that sounds like I am making excuses for a poor headphone. I wouldn't call it the best headphone and I'd hesitate before recommending them to a friend because their tuning is clearly not for everyone but I like them. However there is something oddly comforting about the sound signature if you adjust to it, the detail is there but not as you'd normally expect it and it is wonderfully fatigue free listening. However, it is a very different sound signature and my first impression was very negative, finding it muddy and with a strangled high end. The Nighthawk was quite a polarising headphone, a marmite headphone (marmite is a term here for something which people either love or hate with little in between).
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