Yep, I did take a lot of photo during the two days event.
At the Entrance
Big thanks to the volunteers especially since they didn't get to enjoy the show as much as the visitors.
...and who are these gentleman?
The Main Show floor
Sennheiser took the prime spot
No CanJam can be without the Orpheus? Didn't get to listen to it as there is always a line there.
From left: Beyerdynamic, Final Audio, Echobox and Jomo Audio
Final Audio
From right: AAW, LendMeUREars
Listened to AAW's flagships W500 and it is quite good, but it is their Nebula 2 and the Q prototype that surprised me.
Jomo Audio - their flagship 6R is also a very solid ToTL CIEM, especially with the Linum cable.
LendMeUREars - representing FLC, VSONIC and DUNU. The FLC8S is kind of the star on their booth.
The DN2002 prototype - as about as good, if not better sounding than DN2001. A but on the bassy side.
DK3001 and DK4001 sounds quite good as well, but the ergonomics probably need more work.
Echobox - quite good sounding, fairly neutral and detail. It looks and feels much better than the picture actually. They said they still need to fix a couple of small bugs before release.
AV Intelligence is representing a couple of brands.
ACS
As far as my own opinion goes, Shangri-La is definitely the star of the show floor.
From left: Oppo, Mr.Speaker, Schiit, Pendulumic and Sony. Pendulumic makes one (or actually two) of the best sounding portable Bluetooth headphone I have ever heard. Definitely going to pick one up in the near future.
From right: Fischer Audio, Soundwave (which representing a couple of brands) and ALO.
Fischer Audio's Planar headphone Odin (no shown here) is quite good sounding as well, but the real hidden gems are the 5 driver and 7 driver prototype IEM that they were showing only to very few to get some feedback. It was actually developed by another Russian guy but Fischer is wondering whether to co-produce it under the Kennerton brand or not. My opinion is that the 5 drivers is just about as good as any flagship universal IEM on the show floor and the 7 drivers is about as good as any CIEM. They are both in very early stage so I didn't take any pictures out of respect, but the feedback from those who got the chance to listen to them are so impressive that they have decided to go into production and we might have a chance to see them before the end of the year.
Headamp on the left and Audionet (representing Lampizator and oBravo) on the right
Got a chance to listen to the few flagship oBravo hybrid IEM with the Planar and AMT drivers - a bit too expensive IMO.
Didn't get a chance to listen to the upcoming Fender IEM, as I don't want to wait for the line.
Ken @ ALO was there.
Didn't find anything interesting on the Sony booth.
From left: Dita, Questyle and the new Korean DAP brand Opus#1
From left: Atomic Floyd, Noble, iFi, Unique Melody, and E1 audio. The Wizard was there.
E1 was showing Cayin desktop gear and the iBasso Oriolus (latest version). The Oriolus is quite a solid IEM as well.
Atomic Floyd
The Opus#1 really got a lot of attention.
Dita was showing their upcoming models as well.
A&K with their DAP and both Beyerdynamic's T8IE as well as the new JH full metal jacket.
Jerry was as busy as usual.
I actually got a chance to listen to all of them a day before CanJam with a couple of guys and the consensus is that the full metal jacket line is overall an improvement over the old line-up and Roxie is by far the most balanced of them all. It will be the one I will get if I am going to get one of them.
Music Sanctuary represented quite a few CIEM and showing a lot of them. There were too many people there all the time so I didn't actually bother to wait.
Meze's Classic 99 is quite a good sounding headphone for the price. The build quality is excellent as well.
Talked to the Brainwavz team and this is actually their first ever audio show.
Kind of surprise that Radius has came as they usually kept to the Japan market only. The two piezoceramic + dynamic hybrid are quite interesting. They are a bit on the warm and smooth side, which remind me of their DDM2 model a couple of years ago. The asking price is however a bit on the high side.
Upper Floor
One of the conference - and this one is about IEM: Wizard @ Noble, Jerry @ JH, Emil @ Lime Ears and Piotr @ Custom Arts talk about IEM, past and future. Hosted by
@warrenpchi.
Talked to the Stax guys on why they didn't bring the CES prototype to Canjam and apparently it is because they have decided to make more chance to the design.
Slight disappointment after listen to the KSE1500 - don't get me wrong, it is an excellent sounding IEM on its own right, but I think it doesn't quite have the airy quality that a typical electrostatic headphone is known for and to me that is a rather important bit of the listening experience for an electrostatic headphone (or IEM in this case). Part of me really want to know if the outer transparent shell can be cracked open or not.
Jaben's room
AV One's room
The Dynamic Duo from Chord, they also give a talk about all the tech detail involving Chord DAC's secret source, Mojo as well as Dave.
Can't remember the model name, but Fotex also showing some fantastic sounding new model.
Listened to the S-EM9 - more balanced than their older stuff, which I always think are more stage monitor tuned.
Cozoy is showing the new REI - which is definitely better sounding than Aegis.
Absolutely love the new WA8 - ER8S sounds as good as any ToTL IEM out of it.
Got to listen to
@warrenpchi Liquid Spark near the end of the show and all is GOOD!
