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Our first collab with Campfire Audio

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We’re beyond excited to announce our first collaboration with the boutique IEM brand Campfire Audio. It’s a partnership several years in the making—and now, the Drop + Campfire Audio IEMs are just weeks away from launch. This collaboration has been several years in the making. Drop/Massdrop has worked with a number of IEM companies over the years bringing a variety of IEM collaborations to our Audiophile community. Campfire Audio has been in the IEM game for many years now, often setting high marks for their flashy designs and great sounding line of IEMs. Although both teams had been interested in working together for a long time it was only recently that the stars aligned to where we were able to make something happen.
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The idea for our first product came from Campfire Audio founder Ken Ball, who proposed taking the brand’s limited-run Black Star IEM and revamping it with their never-before-seen bio-film membrane bass driver into a newly tuned, competitively priced IEM. We’re calling it the Dark Star. See Ken’s description below: "I am happy to report that the sample "Dark Star" is a more evolved version of our popular Black Star IEM. It made sense to extend this new tech to you instead of us re releasing something that uses the same engineering architecture as the Black Star. So, to clarify, the "Dark Star" uses the same Black Star acoustic systems, 3D models for front end, back-end acoustic loads, the same Sonion mid balanced armature driver, and the same dual Knowles SWFK balanced armature high-end driver. However, it uses a new, more advanced bio film 10-millimeter dual magnet dynamic driver that I absolutely love. We will be using this 10-millimeter driver in a lot of new models moving forward. But I am happy to say this is the first offering using this new tech. So the bottom line is that while the Dark Star is using the same Black Star bones, it is somewhat different. The frequency response is similar to the Black Star but the Dark Star tuning—coupled with the new dynamic driver—is greatly improved." We are pleased to be able to bring this limited run IEM back with an all new bass driver at a more accessible price than ever before.  Stay tuned for more information on the Drop + Campfire Audio Dark Star IEM, and be sure to hit “Request” to be notified as soon as it launches.
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Mageborn23
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Oct 16, 2024
Yes!!! 👏
Mike_WI
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Oct 16, 2024
Can you clarify on "Our first collab with Campfire Audio"? I purchased the Campfire Audio Vega 2020 IEM on Drop in Jan 2024.
SaintR17
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Oct 16, 2024
Mike_WIDrop has sold and currently sell campfire audio products. The collabs are when they offer a Drop / whoever version in this case (Drop/Campfire audio) headphone or IEM. They usually have altered tunings and are offered at a lower price than if they were from the the manufacturer alone. One of the most popular collabs on Drop being the Sennheiser / Drop 6xx Based upon the popular Sennheiser 650hd. As an example.
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Mike_WI
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Oct 16, 2024
SaintR17Gotcha. And I have the 6xx also.
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