Cascade Headphone by Campfire Audio
Feb 1, 2018 at 8:13 PM Post #16 of 2,726
Interesting. I'm assuming that at $800 US, it's all aluminum/stainless, no plastic in the housing?

Cups and hangar arm is cast and CNC machined aluminum... Very little plastic is used on the Cascade. The pivots and sliders are all stainless steel.

KB
 
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Feb 1, 2018 at 8:50 PM Post #17 of 2,726
Looks very interesting! Will this be available to try at CanJam SG?
 
Feb 1, 2018 at 9:23 PM Post #19 of 2,726
How do the dampeners work?
 
Feb 1, 2018 at 10:29 PM Post #21 of 2,726
“Unmistakably Campfire Audio Sound” — should be “Unmistakeable” no?

Apologies for the OT writing tutorial, but I’m a writer and I can’t help myself :beyersmile:. Whether it’s correct depends on how you interpret the phrase. If you consider “sound” the noun/subject, then “campfire audio” would be an adjective and “unmistakably” would be an adverb, and it would be correct as written. Kind of like saying “unmistakably wonderful sound.” But if you consider “campfire audio sound” collectively to be the noun/subject, then yes, you’d want it to be “unmistakable.”

And btw, I’m unmistakably interested in hearing these headphones.
 
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Feb 2, 2018 at 1:13 AM Post #25 of 2,726
Looks great. I’m a big fan of your IEM’s given their insanely good price / performance ratio. I will check these ones out if I can find them somewhere.
 
Feb 2, 2018 at 2:42 AM Post #27 of 2,726
Hey Guys,

So yeah its a real big personal milestone for us here and me personally. This has been my dream for over a decade now, and I cant believe its finally done. This was not easy or cheap to do and took a good 4 years to complete, lots of set backs but each one we learned a lot as we pressed forward. As most folks know Campfire is not a big company, with only 14 full time employees and a 5000 SF shop in Portland Oregon we are managing to work our magic :wink: / fight the good fight and stay true to ourselves. I started out making cables and then modifying headphones for people a long time ago, did a ton of re cabling and headphone tuning and always wanted to start from scratch to make my own. Fell in love with the early Ultrasone Edition 7 headphone and noticed that there were not a lot of really good small portable closed back cans, so decided to shoot for that.

Ours uses a lot of premium materials and very little plastic. Tuning was really spot on so the sound is very good, if you like the Vega you will love these cans. I think all the years of making cables, re cabling and tuning headphones and just generally listening to everything out there has given us a pretty good view of the landscape to craft our own sound. I hope that Head-fi people will appreciate these subtle things we have injected into the Cascade.

Cheers,

Ken

Hi Ken I would love to review the headphone in the Netherlands and bring it to their attention!!

Kind regards

Rick
 
Feb 2, 2018 at 4:14 AM Post #28 of 2,726
Btw, is this a 100% pure beryllium driver like in the Focal Utopia?
 

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