Headphones & Earphones
Over-ear, on-ear, in-ear and true wireless headphones from Audeze, Astell&Kern, Focal, Grado and Sennheiser, with the cables and amplification to get the best from them.
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Headphones are the one part of a system where fit and seal matter as much as specification. A pair that suits your head, your ears and the place you listen will beat a technically better pair that does not.
Impedance and sensitivity decide whether you need an amplifier. High impedance designs need more voltage than a phone or laptop can supply and will sound thin and quiet without one. Sensitive in-ear monitors have the opposite problem and can reveal hiss from a noisy output. Planar magnetic designs generally want more power than dynamic designs of similar impedance.
Open back headphones give a wider sound stage and leak sound in both directions, which rules them out on a train or in a shared room. Closed back designs isolate better at some cost in openness. Detachable cables matter, because the cable is the part most likely to fail. Tell us what you will drive them with and where you will listen, and we will narrow it down.
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From£5,832.50Ex. VATThe Campfire Audio Chimera is a flagship nine-driver quad-brid in-ear monitor combining bone conduction, electrostatic super-tweeters, a 10mm True-Glass dynamic driver, and balanced armature drivers in a handcrafted PVD magnesium shell with carbon fibre-brass damascus faceplate.
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£2,499.17Ex. VATThe Astell&Kern CLARUS is a flagship in-ear monitor built around a nine-driver tribrid architecture, combining a proprietary 9mm dynamic driver, seven Sonion balanced armatures and a silicon MEMS tweeter under a six-way crossover. Housed in a CNC-machined aerospace-grade aluminium shell and supplied with a custom Effect Audio cable, it is voiced for even, natural clarity across the full frequency range rather than for emphasis in any one region.
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£83.32Ex. VATThe Campfire Audio Flight is a curated eartip pack for universal-fit in-ear monitors, bringing together five tip families in a range of bore shapes, firmness levels and materials: High & Clear silicone, Green Core silicone, Final Type E, Sponge Foam and the five-style e-pro horn series. It lets listeners refine fit, seal and sonic balance without changing earphones, and includes an IEM cleaning tool and two carry cases.
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£1,832.50Ex. VATThe Campfire Audio Astrolith is Campfire's flagship all-planar in-ear monitor, pairing a 14.2mm planar magnetic driver for lows and mids with a 6mm micro planar driver for highs. A Particle Phase Resonator smooths the treble, and a partially transparent AAOI housing with built-in tuning chambers sits beneath a hand-polished stainless steel faceplate. Supplied with 3.5mm single-ended and 4.4mm balanced cables.
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£20.83Ex. VATThe Furutech FP-703 (G) is a high performance 6.3mm mono jack plug for terminating instrument, speaker and unbalanced line cable. It uses an Alpha eutectic cast copper alloy centre pin with gold plating, a copper alloy rear housing insulated in PBT and fibreglass, and a cast Zn-Mg alloy body. It solders to cable up to 8mm in diameter.
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£23.33Ex. VATThe Furutech FP-704 (G) is a high performance 6.3mm stereo jack plug for terminating headphone cable and balanced or stereo line connections. It uses an Alpha eutectic cast copper alloy centre pin with gold plating, a copper alloy rear housing insulated in PBT and fibreglass, and a cast Zn-Mg alloy body. It solders to cable up to 8mm in diameter.
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£37.50Ex. VATThe Furutech FP-Mono-63 (G) is a high performance 6.3mm mono connector built around a one-piece gold-plated Alpha copper alloy conductor with PBT insulation and a stainless steel housing. It accepts core insulation up to 8.0mm, solders rather than crimps, and weighs 18.4g with a total length of 70mm.
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£37.50Ex. VATThe Furutech FP-Mono-63L (G) is the right-angle version of Furutech's 6.3mm mono plug, built around a one-piece gold-plated copper alloy conductor with PBT insulation and a non-magnetic stainless steel housing. It accepts wire insulation up to 7.5mm, solders rather than crimps, and weighs approximately 25.1g. Furutech have discontinued this part.
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£29.17Ex. VATThe Furutech FP-705M (R) is the male half of Furutech's 4-pin balanced XLR connector pair, the standard termination for balanced headphone cable. It uses rhodium-plated Alpha copper alloy conductors in PBT and fibreglass resin insulation, with a non-magnetic zinc and aluminium alloy housing in a black painted finish. It accepts cable up to 9mm and solders.
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£30.83Ex. VATThe Furutech FP-706F (R) is the female half of Furutech's 4-pin balanced XLR connector pair, used where a balanced headphone cable terminates in a socket rather than a plug. It uses rhodium-plated Alpha copper alloy conductors in PBT and fibreglass resin insulation, with a non-magnetic zinc and aluminium alloy housing in a black painted finish.
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£45.00Ex. VATThe Furutech FT-7445 (R) is a high end 4.4mm TRRRS balanced connector, the five-pole standard used by Sony's Signature Series and now across portable audio. It uses a one-piece rhodium-plated Alpha copper alloy conductor with audio grade POM insulation and a non-magnetic stainless steel housing. It accepts core insulation up to 6.0mm and weighs 11.8g.
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£62.50Ex. VATThe Furutech CF-7445 (R) is the carbon fibre version of Furutech's 4.4mm TRRRS balanced connector, the five-pole standard used by Sony's Signature Series. It shares the one-piece rhodium-plated Alpha copper alloy conductor and audio grade POM insulation of the FT-7445, in a stainless steel housing with a carbon fibre finish, and weighs 8.8g.