{"id":10244,"date":"2015-09-16T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2015-09-15T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T04:27:34","slug":"audioquest-nighthawk-headphones-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/09\/16\/audioquest-nighthawk-headphones-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"AudioQuest NightHawk headphones now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AudioQuest NightHawk headphones are now available. In the increasingly crowded high-performance headphone market, NightHawk is said to &#8220;redefine luxury, beauty, comfort, sustainability, construction quality, sound quality, and overall value.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AudioQuest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AudioQuest.jpg\" alt=\"AudioQuest\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AudioQuest.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AudioQuest-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0NightHawk designer\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Skylar Gray,<\/span>\u00a0&#8220;we reevaluated and reimagined every aspect of headphone design to create a product that might serve to advance the state of headphone art\u2014one that we hope inspires music lovers, headphone enthusiasts, thinkers, engineers, and creators of all kinds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Designed for low distortion and maximum performance, NightHawk features a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/personal.audioquest.com\/nighthawk-measurements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">alternatives to typical headphone design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the overwhelming majority of headphones that use driver diaphragms made of Mylar, NightHawk&#8217;s cone drivers are constructed from bio-cellulose, an all-natural material largely incapable of creating the harshness and ringing that so often plagues Mylar.<\/p>\n<p>NightHawk&#8217;s bio-cellulose driver is equipped with a compliant rubber surround. This enables pistonic motion of the cone and provides a proper energy-killing termination to preserve the coherence of timing information.<\/p>\n<p>Also unlike most headphone driver baskets, NightHawk&#8217;s basket is designed for perfectly even distribution of its air vents, thus avoiding distortion-causing rocking of the voice-coil, enabling improved low-frequency control and extension.<\/p>\n<p>NightHawk&#8217;s patented split-gap motor precisely focuses the magnetic field toward the extremes of the voice-coil&#8217;s travel, resulting in lower intermodulation distortion and a cleaner, more balanced overall presentation.<\/p>\n<p>NightHawk comes equipped with two headphone cables: one designed for minimum distortion and maximum sound quality, and a second cable designed for outstanding durability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AudioQuest NightHawk headphones are now available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,2],"tags":[3459,2628,3458],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-headsets","category-mobile-products","tag-audioquest","tag-headphone","tag-nighthawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}