Refusal to take responsibility.
Hi, Just thought I would make a note here of your handling of my issues. I ordered a pair of HD6xx headphones and then earlier today recieved the package. I drive to go and get it, as I like in the UK I had to pay import tax and handling fees. These total £47.92. The breakdown being £35.92 in tax and £12 in fees. These taxes were calculated of the shipping label of the box, which marked the shipment as the 6xx headphones of $199 value. Before leaving the parcel depot, I open the box to find a $35 lord of the rings mousepad. So now the problem is not only do I not have the headphones, but you have marked the shipment wrong so I have paid £47.92 fees for the handling of the mousepad. Which would have acrued £0 of fees if marked correctly as it is under £135. I go back to the desk but as I have already paid the fees I am unable to reject the shipment, but as the box said 6xx, there was no way for me to know before opening it. I contact support and they offer me a replacement, which...
Jan 17, 2025
Would these be just as bad?
It may not be as obvious with normal songs, yes.
But they do muddy up with instrumental focused music such as movie soundtracks.
While they may be superb to most people, it doesn't really fit my needs as I listen to a very wide variety of songs.
Just to clarify, I am a musician and do tend to lean towards more realistic sounding tunings as opposed to what people consider as sweet or euphoric sounding iems/headphones.
I also have a very eclectic taste in music and my experience is the opposite: Campfire IEMs are very genre agnostic. Even the Vega's have great tonality, speed, body, and timbre for orchestral and classical music which is wild considering they're a single DD IEM. They also due very well with the blues and bluegrass.
Not that it matters, I grew up in a musical acclimated family and played flute in the school band as well as acoustic guitar. My uncle is currently teaching me piano and drums as well although I wouldn't classify myself as a musician per se (just a humble instrumentalist). My wife plays clarinet and is currently taking cello lessons. While listening to her play the actual pieces she's learning (the recordings), the Vega does a great job of matching the realistic tones of her instrument. Better than one would think, actually.
I'm sure preferences in general has a lot to do with it but calling Campfire gear "muddy" seems exaggerated. Out of curiosity, what IEM do you use that's realistic and not sweet/euphoric as you stated above?
I also tried the Etymotic ER4XRs before. While, they do sound right tonality wise, they don't convey the texture of the instruments accurately.