![]() ![]() Ergonomic high-end headphones with luxurious finish The headphones feature a closed construction and boast excellent isolation from ambient noise. What's really special about the NightOwl Carbon headphones is that the drivers are equipped with a special biocellulose diaphragm surrounded by rubber and a real voice-coil that eliminates unwanted noise as a result of resonance. ![]() The low impedance makes these headphones suitable for use with mobile devices. The SACD format itself is a much better thing than MQA, because it actually brought us DSD which was something new and different at the time, not just another downsampling-upsampling tech.The luxurious NightOwl Carbon headphones by Audioquest provide clear, neutral audio thanks to the extra-large 50mm dynamic drivers. * Same in terms of royalty and restrictions. Since then I switched to NOS DAC, ditched both MQA and Chord upsampling and feel very happy without it □ ![]() When I had Meridian DAC with MQA support, MQA was clearly playing much better than just 16/44 stream. When I had HMS-DAVE in my system, MQA "first unfold" played worse than "pass through" which was simply feeding the HMS with 16/44 stream and allowing Watts filter to do it's job. Which is very good for the industry, because it made everyone involved react in some way. Their marketing sparked people's interest in sound quality. Introduction of MQA-CDs, which hopefully will lead to increase of market interest in physical media.ģ. Their attempts to improve recordings at the mastering stage, by working with recording studios.Ģ. Sony did the very same * thing with their SACD format and this led to the fact that the wonderful format never became widespread.Īt the same time, I really like few things that they do:ġ. They also introduced some artificial restrictions, that are introduced only to push people into buying "MQA capable" gear. They collect royalties from everybody (DAC manufacturer, recording studio, streaming platform, et.c.), who's using it. MQA codec itself did not bring anything new or useful.Ģ. That is the same thing that was done in the industry before. Although in fact this technology is a downsampling and upsampling. They are trying to present everything in such a way that their technology is some kind of "compressed" music which supposedly can be "unpacked". Steel Hifiman grilles in pretty colors.ġ. My humble cannery: Sennheiser PX 100, HD 25 plastic, Aluminum, and 75th Anniv., HD 600, HD 800, Fostex TH900mk2 SB, TR-X00 Mahogany, Audeze LCD-2C, 3F, HIFIMAN HE6SE V2, HE400i 2020, Beyer DT 1770, DT 880/600, Shure SE535, SE215, RHA MA-750, Dunu Trident, Cables by .uk and skyaudiocables. Music: FreeBSD ZFS running on Xeon, CIFS/Samba and minidlna | Tidal MQA | Deezer Hifi | Amazon HD | Foobar2000 | ASIOProxy | BluOS | Yamaha MusicCast Headstation: Lenovo M75t Audio-gd DI-20, coax Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ RME ADI-2 DAC FS (AKM, 2nd Ed., first batch in Europe) Violectric V280 SPL Phonitor 2 Bluesound Node 2i Wireworld Chroma 8 coaxĢ Channel: Lenovo M90n IoT, Audio-gd DI-20HE, Master 19, R8 MK2 Mutec REF10, MC-3+ USB, MC-1.1+ TASCAM DA-3000, RW901MKII Oppo UDP-205 Bluesound B100S Musical Fidelity M5si, Klipsch R-26F floorstanders on custom isolators DIY AES/EBU and balanced analog cables from Sommer cable stock, Hicon connectors Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 HDMI & coax Damar & Hagen bydpete ![]()
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