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Premium audio brand Astell&Kern partners with IEM mainstay Campfire Audio to put out the PATHFINDER with several unique driver and acoustic chamber technologies inside. This hybrid set comes with deluxe accessories and boasts a high-end build and design while aiming to be your personal audio end game.

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$1900 for these and they still only come with a 1 year warranty?????
 

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$1900 for these and they still only come with a 1 year warranty?????
IEM drivers don't die randomly these days thankfully. I'd say any issue you see would be caught immediately.
 
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At this price I'd just be looking at customs.

$1900 for these and they still only come with a 1 year warranty?????

Agree it's kinda odd but a lot of these companies just support stuff outside of the warranty. The price was always going to be insane given the two brands that worked on this.
 
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At this price I'd just be looking at customs.
It's harder to sell customs so people tend to try out expensive UIEMs and see whether they can get custom ear tips at times. Many of the flagship (this isn't even one necessarily) IEMs don't come in CIEM option.
 
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It's harder to sell customs so people tend to try out expensive UIEMs and see whether they can get custom ear tips at times. Many of the flagship (this isn't even one necessarily) IEMs don't come in CIEM option.
Campfires flagship is a little over 3,000. This is just a colab with another high end brand. But yeah Campfire doesn't really do customs. The ones they have are just low kilo buck range, which is about the highest I'd go for a non custom.

I get the don't have a resale value but anything 1900 is a hard think in the IEM range.
 
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