Campfire Audio at Audio46

Campfire Audio Alien Brain Universal In-Ear Monitors

WIRED in-ear HEADPHONE

mmcx connection

Audio46 Logo
 

SKU: IEM-CFA-ALB

$999.00 Sale

OUT OF STOCK
zero units left
0

Email me when available

Email me when this product is in stock again

(Fun fact: By filling out this form, you let us know there's demand for this item!)

We will only send you a follow-up email once the product becomes available. Your email address will not be shared with anyone else.

✗ Out of stock - See our form to sign-up to be notified when it's back in stock!

✓ 2 year limited Campfire Audio warranty

 Earn 5% back in rewards! Learn More

Need help or product is sold out? Call (212) 354-6424, Live Chat or Email us

Product Details

Audio46's Opinion

While the Alien Brain doesn’t aim for the ultra-wide soundstage seen in some open-back designs, it carves out a satisfying sense of space that feels deliberate and immersive. The dynamic driver lends a weighty, responsive character to the sub-bass without ever sounding bloated or over-enhanced. The mids are articulate and densely layered, allowing both vocals and instrumentation to shine without smearing or congestion. There’s no aggressive peakiness, which makes the Alien Brain suitable for long sessions, but it still manages to extract a lot of information from the upper registers. While the soundstage could be wider and the treble slightly more natural, the detail retrieval and low-end performance punch well above its weight.


Our Full Review

↓ Details provided by Campfire Audio
(Specifications and appearance of this product are subject to change without notice)

Alien Brain

Out of this world five-driver hybrid in-ear-monitor

Campfire Alien Brain close-up

Close-Encounters of the HiFi Kind

Alien Brain is Campfire's latest in our long legacy of premium hybrid-design IEMs with a new five-driver internal architecture. Drawing from over a decade of engineering, experimentation, and innovation, Alien Brain

Campfire Alien Brain close-up again

New Hybrid Internal Architecture

Alien Brain's new, five-driver, internal architecture is built on the long legacy of Campfire's world-class hybrid IEMs.

A new iteration of our renowned Dual Magnet Dynamic Driver forms the bedrock of Alien Brain's powerful sonic performance. Alongside this incredible new bass driver are four, high-performance balanced armatures; two dedicated to mid frequencies, and two for highs.

These drivers coalesce to form a smooth, musical, and engaging listen through Campfire's careful treatment and tuning.

New Dual-Magnet DD Iteration

First introduced in Bonneville and Cascara, our Dual Magnet DD quickly became a fan-favorite. This latest iteration features an exciting new glass-pu diaphragm; with a glass dome and polyurethane coating.

Experience incredible bass texture and impact, without being over-bearing or too forward. Giving you just the right amount of low-end power to infuse energy into your tracks without crowding out the rest of the frequency spectrum.

Peak Performance

Alien Brain is precision engineered inside-and-out by the same engineering team that has brought you all Campfire IEMs for years. Bringing decades of experience to the creation of an all-new style of Campfire earphone.

Campfire Alien Brain frequency response graph

Tuned With Intention

This curve displays relative volume levels at each point across the frequency spectrum, reflecting Alien Brain's careful balance and refinement in tuning. Though FR curves are a great general guide, they can't convey technicalities like soundstage, imaging, layering, etc

Phase Harmony Engineering

At Campfire Audio, our philosophy regarding driver treatment informs a considered approach that emphasizes quality over quantity. In the arms-race to fit a higher and higher number of drivers into an earphone, we find that a results-driven technique to driver treatment produces superior results with less room for pitfalls and ever-expanding variables that can undermine product consistency.

One of the products of this approach is our Phase Harmony Engineering, that allows us to segment the frequency spectrum and assign these segments to specific drivers, and allows those drivers to apply their strengths to that area. Using a combination of precision engineered driver housings and shell geometry, coupled with custom damping values we are able to physically shape the tuning and response of the drivers, and further, their interaction with one another. This driver-to-driver interaction is crucial to eliminating points of potential phase cancellation and creating the intangibles that don't show on a frequency response curve; imaging, separation, resolution, and soundstage.

Campfire Alien Brain with amp/dac

All-New Portable DAC

Alien Brain comes equipped with Campfire's all-new, high-performance, portable USB-C DAC dongle. Enjoy streamlined, lightweight, high-res audio on the go, right out of the box. With 32 bit / 384 kHz resolution, plug and play your Alien Brain and ascend to new musical heights on your commute, in your workday, or anywhere you may be listening.

Premium Build

Alien Brain's precious cerebrum is firmly protected in a black PVD stainless steel shell made from full billet CNC capped off by our new, transparent, iridescent, lightweight dome lid, revealing the inner-workings of each neuron.

Crafted with Care

Each unit of Alien Brain was fully designed, engineered, assembled, tested, QC'd, packed, and shipped by Campfire's small team of professionals from our singular location in the heart of Southeast Portland, Oregon, USA.

Campfire Alien Brain with cable

Contents:

  • Alien Brain - Premium HiFi Earphones
  • Time Stream - SPC Conductor cables in 3.5mm & 4.4mm balanced
  • New Portable DAC Dongle - 32 bit / 384 kHz - 1 Vrms
  • New Compact IEM Case - Portable, magnet-closure case in Solar Yellow
  • Breezy Bag Micro - Black two-pocket IEM pouch
  • Silicone Eartips - Small, Medium, Large
  • Foam Eartips - Small, Medium, Large
  • New High and Clear Eartips - Small, Medium, Large in high traction silicone
  • Microfiber Cleaning Cloth
  • IEM Cleaning Tool

Tech Specs:

  • Impedance - 7.8Ω
  • Frequency Response - 5-20 kHz
  • Sensitivity - 8.97 mVrms
  • THD less than .5%

Explore a whole new sector of sonic engagement with Alien Brain

Product Reviews

Loading...

Your cart