KORG NC-Q1 Smart Noise Cancelling DJ Headphones – White
KORG NC-Q1 Headphones receive Stuff 5 Star award
Receiving the highest accolade from Stuff Magazine in their Active Noise Cancelling Headphone group test.
- Clear, precise high-resolution audio
- Outstanding Noise Cancelling and Sound Filtering
- Attenuation function for noisy environments
- Smart monitoring with Sound enhancing
- Intuitive and flexible controls
- Supports hands-free calling and Siri/Google digital assistant
- Connect to any audio player device, mixer or audio interface
- Built-in rechargeable battery
KORG NC -Q1 SMART NOISE CANCELLING HEADPHONES
Unparalleled hearing protection and sound control; a new era in headphone monitoring.
We all know that your most important tools for any performance are your ears! That’s why KORG spent years researching the environments where performers – especially DJs – monitor their music, resulting in the development of a whole new level in headphones which combines a unique blend of features to provide a seamlessly integrated and safe DJ experience.
KORG’s NC-Q1 is a very new kind of Bluetooth headphone technology, developed to protect your ears even in very loud environments while delivering unsurpassed high definition sound and noise-less monitoring. Combining state-of-the-art Active Noise Cancelling, incoming sound attenuation and an array of smart features, the NC-Q1 headphones provide a flexible, controllable, powerful and great-sounding experience. With this unique blend of Noise cancelling technology and high-quality sound, the NC-Q1 is perfect for DJs, drummers, front of house engineers – anywhere that’s hard to tame sound levels.
The DJ’s new best friend
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Protect your earsDJs and musicians are often exposed to extremely dangerous sound levels. Without correct ear protection, even a few minutes of exposure to these dangerous sound levels can lead to permanent ear loss. (Even 5 minutes of exposure to 105-110 decibels can cause irreversible damage.) Besides effective noise cancelling in extremely noisy environments, the NC-Q1 is ideal for use in a DJ booth. The “Smart Monitoring†and “Sound Enhancing†functions allow users to customize their hearing of external sounds by selecting an EQ preset, adjusting the volume balance, and even choosing the ear from which to monitor (right, left, or both). Cue and monitor external sounds without having to remove any part of the headphones, to maximize your performance while protecting your ears. | ANC (Active Noise Cancelling)The NC-Q1 features an advanced Noise-Cancelling system, utilizing both Feed-forward and Feedback Active Noise Cancelling technology that is tuned to withstand and process the high levels of sound found in many monitoring environments. Where other ANC headphones begin to distort, NC-Q1 delivers Noise Cancelling in extremely loud environments. Unlike most other Noise Cancelling headphones, the NC-Q1 has microphones on both the inside and outside of the ear cup that accurately suppress a wide range of frequencies and auto-adjust according to the external sound environment. Its powerful attenuation function allows the NC-Q1 to work better than other headphones at minimizing high noise levels = the ideal choice for noisy environments. | PNC (Passive Noise Cancelling)The adaptable ear cushion (made of viscoelastic memory foam), over the ear cup provides not only the highest comfort, but also the best fit around your ear, providing excellent noise isolation not letting any sound in or out, and assuring the microphones placed inside and outside the earcup pick up the appropriate sound for highly precise and accurate noise cancelling. The NC-Q1 goes one step further than most other headphones: the noises we hear come not only from the outside world, but also our own body, transmitted to our ears through the headband of our headphones. By using a special frame structure, the NC-Q1 minimizes these noises and provides an unparalleled noise cancelling experience! | Full-Connectivity, Easy controlCompatible with a wide variety of Bluetooth codecs (SBC, AAC, aptX, aptX-xLLC, APTx-HD), the NC-Q1 also gives users remote access to both Google Assistant and Siri, and its dedicated beamforming processing assures the clearest voice signal during hands-free calls, so you are always well connected with the world around you! The NC-Q1 combines physical buttons and switches with a tactile responsive earcup, for a fast, precise and intuitive control. With just a simple tap, or hold, it is easy to activate or deactivate monitoring function for one or both ears. “Multi-Function switch†makes it is easy to activate play / pause / rewind / fast forward / skip functions! If you need to remove your headphones, the smart transport control function will automatically stop remotely the audio stream on your playback device and restart it automatically when you put them on again, so you don’t miss a note of your favourite music! |
Additional information
Swappable Earpads
The NC-Q1 earpads are easily detachable and replaced with new ones when needed. Replacement Earpads (NC-EP1 BK / NC-EP1 WH) are sold separately and come in the same black and white colours as the default ones included with the NC-Q1 BK / WH Headphones.
Carry case (pouch), flight adaptor, connection Stereo minijack cable and 3.5mm→6.35 mm stereo converter plug (in addition to Bluetooth) included with Headphones.
| Weight: | 320 g |
| Size: | 158.5 x 204.0 x 84.0mm |
| Dimensions: | 15.85 x 20.4 x 8.4 cm; 320 Grams |
| Model: | NC-Q1 WT |
| Colour: | White |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required. |
| Colour: | White |
| Size: | 158.5 x 204.0 x 84.0mm |
Well known Korg has done it again. These Headphones satisfy all my needs. I play in an orchestra and have to plug in to a close circuit system. They give me all the options I need to adjust to what makes playing amazing. I highly recommend them.
It took me forever to find a good pair of headphones, with noise canceling, comfortable, and with AptX-LL Bluetooth codec. I watch movies on a projector, and I didn’t want to experience any lipsync delay, but nowadays, headphones with a Low-Latency codec are extremely rare!
Noise-canceling is ok, nothing compared to Sony Sony WH-1000XM4 or Sennheiser PXC 550. The audio quality is great! I can wear them for hours and forget they are on.
Overall I’m satisfied. I used to use Sennheiser Momentum 3, but they are quite uncomfortable but with a similar audio quality. I also tried the Sennheiser PXC 550-II, but they still got an audio delay.
The headphones were comfortable and the after a long time for the initial charge the sound quality was great. Unfortunately the internal battery lost charge within 2 days and refused to re-charge at all. Amazon’s typical solid customer service were unable to replace the item as it was a warehouse sale? Sounds odd I know but that’s their phrase not mine.
“As the item is a Amazon warehouse item we cannot issue a replacement . I request you to please return the item so that we can issue a full refund.”
Hope I can find another pair at a great price.