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Campfire Audio Chimera
Campfire Audio launches Chimera quad-brid in-ear monitor
The new model sits at the top end of Campfire’s portable-audio line and brings several driver approaches into one in-ear design. Presales are open, with early June 2026 shipping estimated by the brand.
Georg S. Kuklick
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Campfire Audio has launched Chimera, a new quad-brid in-ear monitor for listeners looking at the upper end of the portable hi-fi market. The Portland company lists the model at $7,500 USD and has opened presales ahead of an estimated early June 2026 shipping window.
Chimera is built around a nine-driver architecture that combines bone conduction, dynamic, balanced-armature and electrostatic driver technologies. It also marks Campfire’s first IEM to use a bone-conduction driver, built into a CNC-machined magnesium shell.
The supplied cable is an ALO Audio Valence-6, a six-wire balanced design. Its inclusion also marks the return of the ALO Audio name within Campfire’s accessory package for this release.
Key specifications
Driver system | Nine-driver quad-brid architecture |
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Driver complement | 10mm bone-conduction driver, 10mm True Glass dynamic driver, three balanced armatures and four electrostatic supertweeters |
Impedance | 5.5 ohms at 1 kHz |
Frequency response | 5 Hz-20 kHz |
Sensitivity | 94 dB SPL at 1 kHz/14.6 mVrms |
THD | Under 0.5% |
Cable | ALO Audio Valence-6 six-wire 4.4mm balanced cable, with four pure-copper conductors and two 50/50 pure-copper/silver-plated-copper conductors |
Chimera is in presale now at $7,500 USD, with orders estimated to ship in early June 2026. HiFi PiG lists global presales from 16 May 2026 and suggested retail pricing of £6999/$7500, while secondary coverage also places the model’s public preview at CanJam Singapore 2026.
Sources
- HiFi PiG - Campfire Audio Chimera IEMs
- ecoustics - Campfire Audio's Chimera Flagship IEM Debuts with Nine Drivers, Bone Conduction, and Electrostatic Tech: CanJam Singapore 2026
