Seems pretty good for $230, the current price for folks in the U.S. For on-the-go hi-res listening with a smartphone, some of us have used wired "audiophile" earbuds like the Shure 215 or 425 paired with a portable DAC, like a Dragonfly, Fosi Audio, or FiiO. A combo like this typically costs more than $229 or even $299, the retail price of the Questyle NHB12's after the Kickstarter campaign is over. So if the Questyle's SQ is roughly comparable to these more expensive options, it will be a compelling choice - for $$$ and for convenience (don't have to carry around a separate DAC dongle). I'm guessing that purchasing the Questyle's during the Kickstarter doesn't come with a return policy if you don't like the way they sound. Maybe it does, but I haven't seen it at the product's Kickstarter page. However, Scott's opinion carries a lot of weight with me. I've bought a dozen or so records that he recommended that I previously wasn't too familiar with, and I love all of them. Scott wouldn't recommend something if it were mediocre. So maybe I'll give the Questyle's a try. Thanks for the video, Scott!
Thanks so much for your comment! I think there was a $230 level for the first 100 people who signed up, now during the rest of the month $259, them $300 on release, said to be in September. I will be spending more time with the product while on vacation later this month. I'm sure I'll be able to add more commentary after that. I will also check on the return policy. This is important. I think this is a company to keep an eye on. If their debut into this product category was so well done, I'll be interested to see what they follow up with.
I don't have enough comparative experience to recommend anything else, but I did find I had the wrong size tips after some more experimentation. A smaller tip gave me deeper bass, just right.
Interesting subject matter Scott. Apple headphones made by Apple were never on the lips of audiophiles. But a new company, more expert at making buds, teaming up with them could be interesting. Not personally knowing how good the headphones are, according to you, the combination of high res lossless as a source + these headphones are good enough to equal great sound. If you have a great source and amplification, everything (just about everything) sounds great as far as loudspeakers go. You can hook up a cheap but decent speaker to ultra good equip. and it will sound at least very good. Streaming using a lesser quality source into potentially greater quality headphones and the resulting sound versus the sound quality you are getting would be interesting.
I originally assumed (perhaps wrongly) that the Q name was a company that Apple had recruited to make headphones for them. I realize now that it could be the catchword the brand gave to it's product line. If it sounds great; it doesn't matter who made the headphones. Apple is certainly a company with high tech capability.
Thank you for your comment. I felt the earphones offered something that I had not seen before or experienced before. An all in one plug and play solution for hi res lossless playback of a service that offers that. That's really all there is to it. Is it going to rival disc playback, either vinyl or cd on a home system. No. Can i enjoy it for what it is? Yes.
If I had an Apple phone, I would probably buy one. I assume it's only Apple compatible. It's amazing the sound quality headphones have, compared to speakers; even though the way speakers image and other things, make them quite more believable. It might be that for some things like detail, low coloration, low distortion etc., a good headphone can compete with speakers costing 10 or 20 times as much. A lot of people get their first taste of high end sound at home through their headphones. Their $100 headphones could sound many grades better than their $200 speakers. I just replaced my tube preamps factory included tubes with some tubes from a company called JJ. They're a well known established company that makes modern tubes. Usually old vintage NOS tubes from the 1950s will sound far better than modern tubes. In fact if you find tubes from 1954, chances are they'll sound better than the same companies tubes from 1958; all things being equal. They don't make things like they used to was happening even way back then. I got the JJ tubes with the gold pins. For the first time ever, I don't feel like doing any further modding of my equipment. I would be satisfied if my tonality stayed exactly the way it is now, forever. When I mod, the tonality always seems to change a little, and sometimes you can never get that very exact same tonality back.Tube rolling pays big dividends. You can't overgeneralize with tubes though. A company like JJ might make a near world beater 12au7 tube, but another type of tube by them might not be a leader of the pack.
Sounds like a nice iem; however one must take into consideration that the future iPhones will be converting to an usb-c interface by the end of next year at the latest…per E.U.’s mandate (which will probably result in all global versions soon to follow, if not at the same time).
Hi Zeram, thank you for your support! We are closely monitoring Apple's official announcement regarding the next generation of iPhone. Once the new iPhone is released with a USB-C port, we will offer a Free Upgrade of the True Lossless cable to USB-C Only for Kickstarter backers of NHB12.
At the time I chimed in, nearing AM (or AM), you had less than 100 views, when you normally would have a thousand views by then. Seems what looked like "your faithful" are pretty much totally dependent on the subject matter. These decent looking women on here can talk about shoe polish and still get their thousands of views every time. Maybe you should have done the exercise bike thing. LOL.I don't feel slighted that you're not getting back to me. I'm more interested in my own two cents anyway. At least a lot of people didn't see your blunder of thinking and implying that streaming is higher up than cd playing. At least it wasn't as bad as someone thinking FM is better than playing a cd or record. If in the future, there ever is streaming that sounds as good as records or cd playing, will audiophiles be dumping their $30,000 cd players and turntables and their lp collections?
Sorry in the delay to getting back to you. I was at work all day and had held comments until I could address them. No slight intended! Yes this was something I wanted to try, and it's a slow burn. I knew my core audience might not be that interested hence the low showing. Yet surely music lovers need something to listen to on the go so I agreed to try it out. I think the company, though the e been around for some time, is not a household name. Hopefully they gain more of a foothold. I didn't mean to suggest that the headphones and service can equal a cd played on a home system. Just that CD resolution is the minimum claimed on the Apple platform. Sorry if that was unclear.
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Seems pretty good for $230, the current price for folks in the U.S.
For on-the-go hi-res listening with a smartphone, some of us have used wired "audiophile" earbuds like the Shure 215 or 425 paired with a portable DAC, like a Dragonfly, Fosi Audio, or FiiO. A combo like this typically costs more than $229 or even $299, the retail price of the Questyle NHB12's after the Kickstarter campaign is over. So if the Questyle's SQ is roughly comparable to these more expensive options, it will be a compelling choice - for $$$ and for convenience (don't have to carry around a separate DAC dongle).
I'm guessing that purchasing the Questyle's during the Kickstarter doesn't come with a return policy if you don't like the way they sound. Maybe it does, but I haven't seen it at the product's Kickstarter page.
However, Scott's opinion carries a lot of weight with me. I've bought a dozen or so records that he recommended that I previously wasn't too familiar with, and I love all of them. Scott wouldn't recommend something if it were mediocre.
So maybe I'll give the Questyle's a try.
Thanks for the video, Scott!
Thanks so much for your comment!
I think there was a $230 level for the first 100 people who signed up, now during the rest of the month $259, them $300 on release, said to be in September.
I will be spending more time with the product while on vacation later this month. I'm sure I'll be able to add more commentary after that.
I will also check on the return policy. This is important.
I think this is a company to keep an eye on. If their debut into this product category was so well done, I'll be interested to see what they follow up with.
since you're a basshead, which iems fo you recommend?
I don't have enough comparative experience to recommend anything else, but I did find I had the wrong size tips after some more experimentation. A smaller tip gave me deeper bass, just right.
Interesting subject matter Scott. Apple headphones made by Apple were never on the lips of audiophiles. But a new company, more expert at making buds, teaming up with them could be interesting. Not personally knowing how good the headphones are, according to you, the combination of high res lossless as a source + these headphones are good enough to equal great sound. If you have a great source and amplification, everything (just about everything) sounds great as far as loudspeakers go. You can hook up a cheap but decent speaker to ultra good equip. and it will sound at least very good. Streaming using a lesser quality source into potentially greater quality headphones and the resulting sound versus the sound quality you are getting would be interesting.
I originally assumed (perhaps wrongly) that the Q name was a company that Apple had recruited to make headphones for them. I realize now that it could be the catchword the brand gave to it's product line. If it sounds great; it doesn't matter who made the headphones. Apple is certainly a company with high tech capability.
Thank you for your comment. I felt the earphones offered something that I had not seen before or experienced before. An all in one plug and play solution for hi res lossless playback of a service that offers that. That's really all there is to it. Is it going to rival disc playback, either vinyl or cd on a home system. No. Can i enjoy it for what it is? Yes.
If I had an Apple phone, I would probably buy one. I assume it's only Apple compatible. It's amazing the sound quality headphones have, compared to speakers; even though the way speakers image and other things, make them quite more believable. It might be that for some things like detail, low coloration, low distortion etc., a good headphone can compete with speakers costing 10 or 20 times as much. A lot of people get their first taste of high end sound at home through their headphones. Their $100 headphones could sound many grades better than their $200 speakers.
I just replaced my tube preamps factory included tubes with some tubes from a company called JJ. They're a well known established company that makes modern tubes. Usually old vintage NOS tubes from the 1950s will sound far better than modern tubes. In fact if you find tubes from 1954, chances are they'll sound better than the same companies tubes from 1958; all things being equal. They don't make things like they used to was happening even way back then. I got the JJ tubes with the gold pins. For the first time ever, I don't feel like doing any further modding of my equipment. I would be satisfied if my tonality stayed exactly the way it is now, forever. When I mod, the tonality always seems to change a little, and sometimes you can never get that very exact same tonality back.Tube rolling pays big dividends. You can't overgeneralize with tubes though. A company like JJ might make a near world beater 12au7 tube, but another type of tube by them might not be a leader of the pack.
Sounds like a nice iem; however one must take into consideration that the future iPhones will be converting to an usb-c interface by the end of next year at the latest…per E.U.’s mandate (which will probably result in all global versions soon to follow, if not at the same time).
There is some information about this in the Questyle page. It is something to think about and research what the plan is when that happens.
Hi Zeram, thank you for your support! We are closely monitoring Apple's official announcement regarding the next generation of iPhone. Once the new iPhone is released with a USB-C port, we will offer a Free Upgrade of the True Lossless cable to USB-C Only for Kickstarter backers of NHB12.
For $300, one can definitely achieve better and cheaper
At the time I chimed in, nearing AM (or AM), you had less than 100 views, when you normally would have a thousand views by then. Seems what looked like "your faithful" are pretty much totally dependent on the subject matter. These decent looking women on here can talk about shoe polish and still get their thousands of views every time. Maybe you should have done the exercise bike thing. LOL.I don't feel slighted that you're not getting back to me. I'm more interested in my own two cents anyway. At least a lot of people didn't see your blunder of thinking and implying that streaming is higher up than cd playing. At least it wasn't as bad as someone thinking FM is better than playing a cd or record. If in the future, there ever is streaming that sounds as good as records or cd playing, will audiophiles be dumping their $30,000 cd players and turntables and their lp collections?
Sorry in the delay to getting back to you. I was at work all day and had held comments until I could address them. No slight intended!
Yes this was something I wanted to try, and it's a slow burn. I knew my core audience might not be that interested hence the low showing. Yet surely music lovers need something to listen to on the go so I agreed to try it out. I think the company, though the e been around for some time, is not a household name. Hopefully they gain more of a foothold.
I didn't mean to suggest that the headphones and service can equal a cd played on a home system. Just that CD resolution is the minimum claimed on the Apple platform. Sorry if that was unclear.