Comments on: Review: Shinola Canfield Over Ear – Audiostyle https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/ Quality audio reviews Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:47:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: SL https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-111460 Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:26:40 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-111460 In reply to dale thorn.

Do you have an eq graph on what you’re changing?

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By: dale thorn https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-83019 Mon, 21 May 2018 10:52:25 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-83019 In reply to Ray.

I have the Canfield on-ear, and while the cable per se is OK, it gets partly or completely disconnected very easily. So I always check it before use now, to make sure the plugs are fully inserted into the jacks.

In some ways, that’s not as bad as the Sennheiser 5xx and 6xx series, since those would micro-corrode inside the jacks over many months and very gradually lose connection. In the Sennheiser case, when the lost connectivity became obvious, I’d be asking myself whether I’d been listening to a compromised signal for the past month.

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By: Linus https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-83008 Mon, 21 May 2018 05:45:53 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-83008 In reply to Ray.

Thanks for the comment. I thought so, thanks for confirming. Unfortunately I don’t have a cable that would fit the Canfield’s connectors.

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By: Ray https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-83005 Mon, 21 May 2018 04:41:01 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-83005 These phones need a better cable. It’s causing the phones to sound congested in the treble, which makes the have a bass hue or tint to the sound similar to Beats by Dre over the ear 1st edition headphones. After I upgraded the cable to a Neotech 8 Core 19AWG UPOCC cable. The sound is more balanced, without the hue and can be used with rock music now which was impossible before. Its audiophile worthy.

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By: Lieven https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-82007 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:34:10 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-82007 In reply to dale thorn.

cool, thanks Dale

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By: dale thorn https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-81984 Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:56:06 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-81984 In reply to dale thorn.

Impression of Canfield On-Ear: Weak lower bass, slightly weak upper bass, slight emphasis in mid-mids, recess in upper mids/lower treble, steep rolloff above 8 khz. The overall effect is a slightly hollow mids-oriented sound with very little upper treble sparkle or harmonic detail. Still, fine for non-critical portable use, since the “loudness” emphasis in modern recordings is somewhat alleviated here. On the downside for portable use, there is very little isolation. On the upside for critical listening, the sound when EQ’d properly is quite good, with no apparent graininess or other irritations. Oh – and the cosmetics as well as build quality are amazing.

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By: dale thorn https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-81932 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:58:02 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-81932 I ordered the Canfield On-Ear version today, and I’ll add a note here about my impressions of it compared to this review. I’m hoping the On-Ear is tuned more like the B&W P5, the B&O H6, or even the Master&Dynamic MH30.

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By: Charles https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-81881 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:49:15 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-81881 In reply to dale thorn.

“And I wonder if this now-popular tuning for mid-priced to low-tier premium headphones has anything to do with the Loudness Wars, to compensate by reducing the impact of the upper vocal ranges.” –

Very interesting thought and it could be very true. Listening to some chart music with bright and “foreward” sounding headphones can be very annoying.

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By: dale thorn https://www.headfonia.com/review-shinola-canfield-over-ear/#comment-81871 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:29:17 +0000 https://www.headfonia.com/?p=35763#comment-81871 It seems from your description that the Canfield is tuned very similar to the AudioQuest NightHawk, the Sonus Faber Pryma, and to some extent the Focal Elear, etc. For a long time I’ve been thinking that this is going to move Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, and a few others away from their more-or-less neutral tunings.

That might be OK if the best recordings called for that tuning, and there were a switch on music players or DACs to compensate for the older recordings, but I don’t really know how that could work. And I wonder if this now-popular tuning for mid-priced to low-tier premium headphones has anything to do with the Loudness Wars, to compensate by reducing the impact of the upper vocal ranges.

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