Just got home from JH Audio. What a treat! They brought out a box with all their headphones for my audition. I own the Roxanne’s and JH 16’s with 3A. I didn’t bother with the Roxanne’s as they are exactly the same sonically as the series I.
As the heat turned up I fixated on the Lola’s and Layla’s through my portable rig, A&K 320>Vorzuge amp (I usually also insert my Mojo but left it in my bag), used mostly flac files and a few DSD.
The Layla is a brutally honest iem, the best I have ever heard. Instruments had more texture, they were true in tone, soundstage was as good as my on ear phones and bested any iem I can recall including the lcd i4, attack and decay were startling! Switching to the Lola’s I got a more relaxed presentation a slight narrowing of the soundstage in both width and depth, they actually made me sink back into the couch, a fun headphone with less pressure on the musical experience for sure. I’d say every bit as good as the Campfire Andromeda.
The Layla is an intense musical experience with every instrument sounding right, I don’t want to call it perfect but it is a fierce unyielding musical instrument. I sold my Campfire Andromeda and Jupiter’s to search for the end game iem, I went there to get the universal fit Lola’s or Layla’s but ended up ordering the custom Layla’s as they did my impressions there.
After selling a bunch of equipment to raise $$$ to fund a long exhausting search for new headphones in the next few weeks my lineup will be:
1. Custom Layla’s left ear clear white, right ear clear red shell, wood caps, with flying lady and JH Audio logo for a little bling with clear cable
2. Noble Audio Massdrop K10 (Dec delivery)
3. Noble Audio Massdrop X (for gym), great inexpensive iem to hold me over for a few weeks...
3. Focal Audio Clear and Elear
4. Hifiman HE 1000V2 (may sell)
5. JH Audio 16 pro with 3A (selling on Audiogon)
T minus 10 days and counting...
