Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I was completely underwhelmed. Maybe it was the source audio, but on day 1 of CES (i.e. I don't think it was due to the headphones being blown from extended high-volume play) 2 or 3 different tracks played from their devices (straight out of iPad Air 2s) had significant distortion in female vocals and bassier bits, even at moderate (75%) volume. That was across two different pairs of headphones in all modes (Bassy, ANC, and passive).
The construction of the headphones was OK at best. Metal and leather - yes, but it just felt cheap in my hands, and the 'detail' (logo, faux-industrial brackets on the cups) was all plastic as far as I could tell.
Audio quality (when not crackling/distorting) was nothing to write home about, which makes the selling point of these purely aesthetics - and I really cannot stand the aesthetic they went with. To me, these are in the category of low-to-mid end cans that you shouldn't spend more than $50-$75 on based on my experience with them.
A $150 pair of Grados would blow these out of the water. $299 is purely a price set so that people will compare them to Beats, and is NOT an indication of quality. The guy chatting with me focused on "style and appearance" as the selling points, rather than "quality of audio and durability."
TL;DR - I really didn't like them and wouldn't buy a pair at any price.
Again: emphasizing that their target market is NOT people interested in the best possible audio quality, but the people who want to look cool while wearing headphones in public.
I didn't get the chance to play with anything in Wireless mode, and I avoid wireless headphones as much as I can so I would have zero point of comparison on that point.