The brand new JH Audio custom-molded in-ear earphones and JH-3A earphone amplifier
(Credit: JH Audio)The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2011, held a week ago in the Colorado Marriott Tech Center Hotel, not just displayed a huge variety of high-finish audio designs, there is a unique earphone-oriented show inside the show known as CanJam. It had been an incredible chance to sample the earth's best earphones and earphone amps.
The power within the CanJam ballroom was palpable. There's without doubt the earphone marketplace is still growing in a rapid rate, and anybody who spent a while hearing the most recent crop of cutting-edge items needed to come from the experience shaken and stirred.
I have talked concerning the seem of JH Audio's custom-molded in-ear earphones before, but the organization is going to introduce the earth's first tri-increased earphone system. It's known as the JH-3A. The business's owner, Jerry Harvey began building in-ear monitor earphones for rock bands in 1995. He counts Rhianna, Alicia Secrets, Aerosmith, Foreigner, and Linkin Park as clients. The amplifier was created to become joined with Harvey's JH16 Professional earphones that appear to be very similar because the ones I have employed for years. The JH-3A features separate amplifier channels to energy the headphone's low-frequency, midrange, and-frequency motorists.
The JH-3A has digital and analog inputs with as many as 24-bit resolution and 192-kHz sampling rates. The amplifier includes a electronically controlled variable bass output, to help you have flat or increased bass response in the earphones. Production earphones are custom-molded for your ears for that perfect fit, but in the show I auditioned the machine with universal fit earphones. The seem was more dynamic and "open" than I have heard from the in-ear earphone before. I'll be getting my custom-molded earphones and also the amplifier soon. I'll provide a more in depth account from the seem within the full review. The JH16 and JH-3A Amplifier are offered together for $1,748.
V-Moda's Val Kolton
(Credit: Steve Guttenberg)V-Moda's Val Kolton demonstrated us a prototype of the new earphone which should arrive early the coming year. I truly loved it, the industry first for me personally. I have always respected V-Moda's style, however the seem left me cold. This brand new one had punchy, rock-solid bass and extremely obvious seem. Kolton is definitely an intense guy, and it has put lots of thought into seem and just how it affects people. Kolton had another prototype of the approaching design he did not play for me personally, however the styling was absolutely brilliant. V-Moda has already been a large deal, but it will likely be a great deal larger.
I have examined numerous planar magnetic earphones about this blog, but many of them are pretty costly. Fostex continues to be making planars for a long time, and that i got an opportunity to hear their earphones at CanJam. Listed at $150 approximately they've that open and low distortion seem I connect with increased costly planar models.
The Ray Samuels Dark Star amplifier
(Credit: Steve Guttenberg)Ray Samuels just happened to possess available the earphone that lots of think about the best available, the Sennheiser HE90 electrostatic. Sennheiser stopped which makes them years back, so they are quite rare, and used ones in good shape cost over $10,000. That earphone, driven by Samuels' new A10 amplifier ($6,500) was amazing for which it did not do. It did not seem just like a hi-fi the background music like magic made an appearance between my ears. It may sound real. Another Samuels amplifier, the Dark Star ($2,995), designed a infamously difficult-to-drive earphone, the Hifiman HE-6, really come to life. Samuels also provides many less expensive models, with prices beginning at $295 for that Tomahawk portable amplifier.
Audeze has advanced the condition of the skill of planar magnetic earphone design all over again, using the LCD-3 ($1,945). I figured their lately modified LCD-2 was the very best-sounding full-size earphone in the world, however the LCD-3 is better still. It appears nearly the same as a LCD-2, however the brand new one utilizes a different driver. The supersoft lambskin leather pads felt great on my small ears. The brand new earphone is "faster" and sounds clearer and cleaner. I'll evaluate the LCD 3 within the coming several weeks. I can not wait.
The Woo Audio 234 amplifier
(Credit: Woo Audio)Woo Audio revealed their ultimate earphone amplifier, the 234 Mono, the earth's first mono-block earphone amplifier (it uses separate amplifiers for that left and right channels). The 120 pound amplifier was created to utilize a multitude of tube types, to permit the dog owner to fine-tune the seem for their taste. I took in towards the 234 with some Sennheiser HD 800 earphones, and was treated towards the best, wealthiest, and many detailed seem heard from that model. The $10,000 amplifier is really a magnificent work of commercial design, and it is hand made in New york city.
The AlO RX Mk.3 amplifier and Cypher DAC stack, with my ipod device
(Credit: Steve Guttenberg)ALO Audio was showing its high-finish portable earphone amplifiers, and that i fell totally deeply in love with their RX Mk. 3 amplifier and Cypher Labs AlgoRhythm Solo digital-to-analog ripper tools driving Audeze LCD-3 earphones. Strap the amplifier and DAC together, in order to your ipod device or apple iphone and you will get hypertransparent, audiophile seem quality inside a truly portable package. Again, I am wishing to find the amplifier and DAC for review.
If you wish to sample best wishes earphone gear on your own, start likely to attend the CanJam 2012 in Colorado next October.
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