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Just came back from CanJam NY. I had a blast! I broke down and ordered the Effect Audio Thor iem cables when I heard what they did to my SE846...phenomenal. The Meze 99 Classics are really good headphones, and the price is right. Got to listen to some Campfire iems. I listened to the bassiest ones I was told, the Dorado and Vegas...really nice. The one that really blew me away was the 1More triple driver. I put them on and my jaw dropped, I purchased them on the spot for a show price of $85. Believe me, these things blow away iems many times the price.
The highlight of my day though was after listening to the Cardas A8 and EM5813. Stephen Ambrose was at the booth and wanted me to audition the new Adel in ear monitors. I sat with him for over a 1/2 hour listening to all his different Adel options he's developing with Indiegogo. I had been eyeing the Adel campaign and even posed the question here if anyone knew anything about it. Well, I'm sold. The adels he let me listen to were really good, especially with the cardas speaker. He's a really nice, humble guy, and I was impressed with his passion. He recorded me, took my pic and asked for my permission to be placed on the website. I gave it and told him I would back the campaign. He's going to be selling all different types of adel modules to get differ sound signatures...really good stuff.
Daps I listened to:
Fiio X5 gen 3 and X7: The X5 gen 3 sounded better. I don't know which amp the X7 had. The new AK chip with velvet sound is really smooth, especially balanced out.
The opus II: sound is phenomenal, but no streaming, so not for me
The new Sony daps: ridiculous sound. They just look like sex, the build quality, they are so heavy. I don't know what's inside. Musical gold?
Heard the iSine 10, Didn't get a good seal so my impressions weren't fully realized.
On another note, I've had my new TFZ 5S burnin for over a day now. I like them, but need more time.
I wasn't very impressed with the Opus 2. I liked the x5 and the AR (not sure the model but the higher end one). Didn't care for the AK daps and def would never spend 1500+ on a DAP cause i wasn't wowed, at all. To be fair, my sd card didn't work on the device and by the time i rebuilt it on my device i was ready to leave the boothe.
It was a fun day but i can't see going for 2 days.