My oh my, this is what I get for not paying enough attention to this website. Let me address a few things here.
First off, I don't have any sort of real grudge against Campfire beyond a bunch of stupid and tasteless jokes I made about a year ago on a Discord that I'm no longer in. I give them credit where credit is due, and I genuinely liked the Andro 2020 for what it was. Having said this, I do dislike the vast majority of their products on the basis of, well, disliking them. No different from the reason I dislike any other given IEM, and it's certainly not because I'm out to get Campfire or any sort of bizarre conspiracy theory like that. Beyond drawing connections between related products and talking about past endeavors, I really don't care all that much about who makes what IEM. I'm more interested in how the IEM in question stands on its own, and if it does or doesn't, it has nothing to do with who made it.
Secondly, I don't know how much of the stuff directed at Crin was really directed at him and not mistakenly directed at me, but I'll address it too. On the topic of Chifi, I implore anyone here to go check what I think of something like the Illumination or the Clairvoyance, or something like the Oxygen or the BL-03. I don't know where this bizarre IEM race war mentality came from, but I don't like Asian IEMs any more than American ones, and vice versa. It's the same deal with Campfire, this stuff really doesn't matter to me when it comes down to evaluating the actual IEM itself, though of course I talk about it in the context before and after the actual analysis. I find the whole "token white guy thing" especially creepy given it's effectively politicizing and racializing a completely unrelated topic for no apparent reason. Is this stuff really in good taste?
Thirdly, I don't know how many times I've had to stress this, but my writing serves as the highly subjective and completely opinionated reference point of a single person. Never have I paraded my thoughts or musings as objective, and never will I ever pretend that anything I write is even attempting to speak for anyone beyond myself. I really don't mind, and completely expect people to disagree with any given one of my reviews. That's kind of the point. I'm more confused as to why people go so far as to take offence from what is essentially an incredibly drawn out and verbose impression.
Oh yeah, and by the way, none of the stuff I listen to is Asian pop. I've posted my old test tracks before, and the large majority of it is rock and metal. Nowadays almost all my listening is classical. So unless you're telling me Beethoven and Schoenberg are the hottest Kpop idols, I don't know what to tell you.
