The Campfire Audio Andromeda 10 is a ten-balanced-armature universal IEM (4 low, 4 mid, 2 high) in a faceted aluminium shell, $1,799 (a steel Launch Edition is $2,499). Reviewers broadly agree on a wide, deep stage with precise imaging and layering, strong resolution and separation, a lively and dynamic presentation, and excellent build; the move to recessed 2-pin sockets is welcomed. Measured on four rigs it is warm and bright at once: sub-bass close to the Harman target with a mid-bass and lower-mid shelf about 2.5 dB above it, roughly 6 dB less 2–4 kHz presence than Harman, and a strong peak around 8–10 kHz. Next to the classic Andromeda on the same rigs it has 4–6 dB more sub-bass and about 5 dB more upper treble. So most hear clean, punchy, mid-bass-led bass that is good for balanced armatures but short of dynamic-driver slam, and mids that are clean and well separated, with lower mids a touch lean and vocals sometimes set back. The treble is where opinion splits: a narrow majority hears airy, controlled sparkle, while a large minority, including several owners, hears a bright top end that can turn sibilant. Fit (an unusual shape that some ears reject), isolation (a vented shell) and value are also split. It is easy to drive and sensitive: most sources work, but some add hiss, and a source with low output impedance is recommended.
About this product
The ten-balanced-armature 10th-anniversary Andromeda (late 2025): the green anodised-aluminium Standard Edition at $1,799 with Campfire's modular Time Link cable (3.5mm, 4.4mm and USB-C DAC plugs), and the limited Launch Edition at $2,499 in black PVD stainless steel with a Damascus-steel lid (black or gold) and a fixed 4.4mm cable. Both use the same drivers and measure within about 1 dB of each other; the Launch Edition is heavier. It is a new design, not a revision of the classic five-driver Andromeda, and distinct from the Andromeda S, Gold and Emerald Sea.
Campfire Audio's Andromeda 10 marks a decade of the green in-ear that made the Portland brand's name. Rather than tweak the classic five-armature Andromeda again, Campfire doubled the count to ten balanced armatures — four for bass, four for the mids behind a new noise-suppressing circuit, two tweeters firing into its long-running TAEC chamber — in a new, oddly faceted shell, and switched from MMCX to 2-pin sockets for the first time. The green aluminium Standard Edition costs $1,799; a limited steel-and-Damascus Launch Edition costs $2,499.
The early press has been glowing, and a clear picture emerges from the reviews: the stage and imaging are as good as the name promises, and the bass is a big step up from the old Andromeda. The arguments are over a bright upper treble that some hear as air and others as sibilance, an unusual shell that disappears in some ears and wobbles in others, how well it blocks the outside world, and whether $1,799 is a fair price or an anniversary premium.
