Raven Audio Nighthawk

I have the Raven Blackhawk LE with Reference 3A MM de Capo i speakers and it is a perfect amp for those wonderful speakers. Exceptional build quality and the best sonics of any of probably 20 amps I've owned over the last several decades. Exceptional customer service, as well.

Any details on what the updates are?

Any details on what the updates are?

No specifics, just upgrading some of the internals to reduce total distortion. 

Whatever they update is only making an already excellent value even better. What I know, mostly from Willgolf, its the familiar story of first we make something as good as we can and its great but costs a fortune and so then we figure out how to get most of that performance down to a price point. What Eric did with Moab, Dave has done with Raven's Avian series.  

Then they come back from doing that and figure out how to make the top end one even better. That's where they are now, trying to make the Elite series even better. So at this point in time the Nighthawk you got is close to Elite and just crazy good value. Would love to hear one, see how much better it is than my Melody. On paper they all look pretty similar but the real black art is in the transformers, and the only way to know there is to listen.

i had a nighthawk and blackhawk for a while. they were both excellent sounding and quite similar. at that time they were shipping with nos svet winged c and nos rca, amperex tubes. tubes greatly affect the sound quality.
hard to beat with both low efficiency speakers in a smaller room or he speakers in a med large room.
transparent, colorful sound.
eventually i wanted more scale and moved on to kt 120 based tube amps and then solid state power amp with tube preamp driving large brit mons.
the first time i heard the nighthawk it was driving a set of kef ls 50s.
possibly the sweetest sound i have ever heard regardless of system cost.
enjoy !