AudioQuest NightHawk Full-Size, Around-the-ear, Semi-Open Headphones. Although NightHawk, designed by Skylar Gray, is AudioQuest’s first headphone, it takes full advantage of the California-based company’s experience and expertise as a longtime provider of high-performance DACs (digital-to-analog converters), phono cartridges, audio/video cables, and numerous accessories. Maximizing potential while minimizing excess, NightHawk combines advanced manufacturing techniques, innovative driver technologies, sensitive ergonomics, and sustainable materials in an elegant, attractive package, with an overall look and feel that exudes quality and belies its modest price. Every aspect of NightHawk was carefully optimized for high levels of sonic, ergonomic, and aesthetic performance, with much of its engineering inspiration taken from today’s most sophisticated loudspeaker designs. NightHawk is the first completely original production headphone to use a 3D-printed part—a biomimetic grille (inspired by the underlying structure of butterfly wings) that uses a complex diamond-cubic latticework to diffuse sound and defeat resonances. NightHawk’s 50mm pistonic drivers have a biocellulose diaphragm designed to take advantage of the material’s outstanding rigidity and high-frequency control, while its patented split-gap motor has been devised to significantly reduce intermodulation distortion. So buy this AudioQuest NightHawk Full-Size, Around-the-ear, Semi-Open Headphones Now £499.00.