The design is accented with a solid aluminum plate to the side with the Nightingale logo and ‘Planar Magnetic’ strapline etched into it. The visual is really dominated by that front open-back ‘window shade’ faceplate and silver alloy grill behind. It does not have those deep contoured dips and valleys which I suspect is more to do with the constriction of the more rigid and wider planar driver design than any lack of design ambition. The form factor is not quite custom universal. Given it is packing magnets inside and using a CNC machined aluminum housing as well as some metal on the faceplates that is not surprising. It is also fairly solid and heavier than most acrylic monitors. It is not a huge monitor either and placing the Nightingale beside the ME.1 and iSINE 10 it does look far more compact. The black and silver combo matte black aluminum design is plenty cool and has all the trademarks of a planar open-back headphone design miniaturized to fit in your ear. The driver is a little smaller than the 18.5mm used in the ME.1 and a fair bit smaller than the 30mm variants found in the iSINE and LCDi4 but it does allow AAW to shrink the size right down to something far more compact so it does look very much like an everyday in-ear monitor. The internal wiring is finished with UPOCC Copper and that might just give you a hint of the type of sound signature you can expect from the Nightingale. In fact, most every planar monitor I have seen is semi-closed or open-back.Īt its heart, the Nightingale uses a 15mm MPMTM micro planar magnetic driver with a PVD deposited voice coil planar diaphragm. That does mean you will not get top levels of isolation but, in order for the planar driver to properly breathe and sound spacious, it does need to have an open design element to it. The Nightingale is a universal monitor but with an open-back design. AAW’s SG$1399 Nightingale could well be another with a tuning that I immediately recognized as one that most planar fans will enjoy. They are also quite a contrasting sound to 2019’s almost dominant electrostatic craze.ĭesigns from Unique Melody and Audeze’s very eye-catching iSINE and LCDi4 open back have created many talking points. Planar IEM’s excite me because they have, to date, sounded and looked very unique. This is by no means our first in-ear planar magnetic review. So, we have played around with the Nightingale now for a few months and anyone reading our initial First Contact article earlier in the year feel free to jump to page 2 for an in-depth on performance and comparisons as there may be a degree of overlap on page 1.įor those coming to the Nightingale for the first time feel free to read on regarding Advanced AcousticWerkes, or AAW’s debut planar magnetic open-back universal monitor.
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