Audio Technica
I have never been the biggest fan of AT but they had a quite popular booth at the show, displaying their lovely wooden designs.
Auralic
Auralic was quite well represented and the setup below got the most attention from the visitors
My personal favorite is the Auralic Gemini which sounded incredibly good with the Audeze’s. The base gets quite hot though. These picture was taken at the Mr. Speakers corner. You can also see the excellent and beautiful Cavalli Liquid Gold.
B&O
It was a pleasure meeting the famous Rasmus in person. He brought the excellent closed H6 which I still love…
…and also some other flashy B&O headphones.
Bakoon International
Ever since I reviewed the Bakoon HPA-21 I couldn’t wait to listen to it again. The Bakoon amps, using the Current output, are excellent with the Audeze and Hifiman headphones. The picture below shows little brother of the HPA-21, the HPA-01. Quite a good amp but I do think the HPA-21 sounded better.
One of the amplifiers I was most interested in listening to was the new portable Bakoon amp (HPA-01M). As the picture shows it’s more transportable than portable, but it sounded incredibly good on the current out with my AK240 as source.
This is a brand new design btw and the sample Canjam had was an engineering prototype. Exciting!
Beyerdynamic
I think Beyer had the most tables at the show and they were right at the entrance. Most of their product line was available for listen, even the new A2 amplifier we will for sure be reviewing soon. I also got a listen to the DX160 iem which I really loved.
The A2 glows like a tube amp, but without tubes 😉
From the Custom One Pro to the DT880, DT990 and T1, they all were present. Most of them connected to the A20 amp yours truly also likes alot.
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dalethorn
I love, love my K812.
Headfonia_L.
Review it for us?
dalethorn
Absolutely. I’ll send a text file.
Headfonia_L.
Great!
Patrick
Was indeed a great show 🙂 Come back at monday morning and had to work at the same day… But it was worthy it!
George Lai
Nice report. Like almost being there.
Headfonia_L.
Thank you George
Rasmus Horn
Ohhh – thanks for the memories Lieven! There were so much stuff I did not get to listen to this time. Next year we have to remember to go get a pilsner too 🙂
Headfonia_L.
Deal!
Headfonia_L.
And you do have a pic of the pretty UE girl. Thanks for that 😉
MuZo2
Was there on Sunday, was my first time at Canjam and really enjoyed it, was worth the trip and day spent well. Shure will go next time too. But hopefully on first day. Didnt manage to hear or see some of products you pictured here.
Headfonia_L.
I don’t even have enough with 2 full days… Glad you enjoyed it
Tibor
Awesome mate 😉 Now I am looking forward to next year and hopefully I will be there. We want more pictures! (of girls O:-))
Headfonia_L.
thank you! To be honest I don’t even have a pic of the UE girl.
Ste
Such cool pictures..Being an stagediver sd2 owner,Im very much looking forward to your thoughts on the sd4!!
Headfonia_L.
I find it the best Inear so far. of course I only listened for 10 minutes
Ste
The fit of those little things amazes me more than anything else! While the sd2 is good,its quite linear and could due with a bump of a couple of db in the bass,and more extension in the highs to my ear,and a bigger soundstage if possible..
Headfonia_L.
And that is exactly the Stage 4…
Ste
Looks like il be inflicting further poverty on my wallet then lol..any idea when they will hit the market or when you will get one to review proper?
Headfonia_L.
Not sure yet. Demo sample maybe in a few weeks. They dont have them yet
Albert_T
Wow, great weekend! Imagine my surprise seeing my picture on the first page of this review ^^, i’m the guy with the Aëdle headphones. It was our first time at Canjam for my friends and I. We come from Geneva, Switzerland and drove about 1500 km over the weekend just for this incredible opportunity to listen to every single headphone we could get our hands on. Call us crazy if you want, but it was well worth it! We’re definitely coming back next year!
Headfonia_L.
Hope it’s ok to use the pic? It was great wasn’t it 🙂
Albert_T
Of course you can use the pic, no harm done. The show was great, everybody was really friendly and gladly answered any question we had. Too bad we couldn’t stay longer.
Next time, come say hello! I’ve been reading reviews on Headfonia for ever, it would be nice to have a chat once at a meet 😉
Headfonia_L.
Same goes for you, you should have said hello 😉
Albert_T
Haha you’re right, but to be honest I didn’t really know who to look for… never actually met you before
Headfonia_L.
Google me man, I’m Indexed hahaha
Albert_T
Got it 😉 Next time, I won’t miss you!
What did you enjoy most at Canjam this year?
Headfonia_L.
The Calyx M and the Auralic Gemini. The Stage 5 and SD4 were great iems, like the Shure 846. the LCD-X was great and the HD800 is always nice to listen to
BlurRhino
Will we be getting an iem shootout in headfonia soon? 🙂
Headfonia_L.
I don’t know. I have a 4 driver, 5 driver and 10 driver incoming but they shouldn’t be compared to eachother really
Albert_T
I agree on the Calyx M, it sounds great! I tried it with the LCD-2 and thought it was quite a good pairing. Too bad they didn’t tell me about the 3 hour battery life at the show…
As for in ears, I own the Westone 4, but I’m tempted to get some customs. What would you suggest? BA4?
Headfonia_L.
I don’t know your musical preference or budget but the CE6P is very good. the new CE4E is great too. CE4E si a great starter though
Albert_T
I usually listen to jazz, instrumental/electronic music and occasionally rock/metal. I found headphones with a very linear response to be harder to enjoy musically compared to headphones with slight colorations. Typically, I prefer the HD650 to the HD800. Also, I find it hard to accept to pay double for headphones that most certainly don’t sound twice as good.
The difference in price between the CE4E and CE6P is not enormous, would you have some more details to share concerning these earphones?
Headfonia_L.
Checkout my ce6e review. I think it will be thr one you want
Nickjan Glas
great review, unfortunatley i wasnt able to listen to the violectric v200. will have to try next year.
Headfonia_L.
Next year you’ll have the V281!
ghost2031 S23
Nice pics,
although i had to chuckle a little bit about the looks of Shozy Alien DAP. I just looks so awkward or silly? (to me at least)
All i know is that i really want to try the Hifiman He-560 and AKG K812 and maybe some Audeze, but mostly the He-560.
Headfonia_L.
Shozy sounds good though
Pinuccio
Good report as always here. Do you know something about the new Violectric dac v820?
Was it exposed there? I’m very interested in this product (the new Violectric flagship dac) but I cant find anything.
Headfonia_L.
It’s not ready yet. Next year he said
Pinuccio
First of all my greatest THANK YOU for this precious information. It was a long time I was trying to know something about it.
So you can confirm that this v820 exists and isn’t a product of my imagination and that it will be available in 2015 probably in the summertime.
For me this means that I won’t buy Anedio D2 anymore and I’ll wait for the new v820. But……was a v820 prototype exposed there? Did he say to you something more specific about launch time and price? Thanks again…..and Germany rocks!!!
(Me Italy)
Headfonia_L.
No. Just that he can work on it now. That’s all
Albert_T
One of the Beoplay H6 on the B&O stand had a silver cable. Does anybody happen to know which brand it was? Its really hard to find aftermarket cables for this headphone, and I’m not a fan of the inline mic…
Headfonia_L.
Probably Rasmus knows 🙂
Albert_T
He was the one holding the stand right? how can I contact him?
Headfonia_L.
He’s on here from time to time 🙂
Nickjan Glas
Rasmus told me he got it on ebay, if I am not mistaken, but I couldn’t find it myself. I did try it at the stand and it clearly emphasizes the treble (higher frequencies). If you like that, it’s worth investigating, but personally I prefer the stock cable, because of this.
Albert_T
I don’t really like the stock cable, because of the 4 pin connector, and because it makes noise everytime i touch it… but i’m using the Aëdle cable now with my H6 and it’s much nicer! And it only costs 19 euros
Nickjan Glas
ok, perhaps a bad cable. no noise here, whatever I do with it. But that aedle sounds interesting just to try. you mean the aramid fibre cable on their site?
Albert_T
Yeah! That’s the one. I didn’t hear any significant improvement in sound but at least i don’t have the microphonics problem anymore, and I can connect it to my desktop amp with no worries.
Nickjan Glas
I ll keep it in mind. I use a 1/4 inch adapter and that works too. This is the first commercial quality cable replacement I know of now that will fit next to the earcup. thanks for that.
Albert_T
No problem, happy to help 😉
rich
Looking forward to your review of the Asus Essence 3 which was awarded the European Award by EISA as the the best USB dac/ amp of 2014. This is a good follow up to the review of the Asus Muse done by Mike.
Headfonia_L.
Probaly not going to happen though :/