On this evaluation, I’ll study the professionals and cons of the Yanyin Canon Professional. The unit prices $399 USD and will be purchased from Linsoul.
Disclaimer: Linsoul and Yanyin usually are not associated to Headfonia. They despatched me the Yanyin Canon Professional freed from cost to be featured on Headfonia.com.
Yanyin
Fuzhou Yanyin Expertise Co. Ltd. is an IEM producer situated in Fuzhou, China. It was based in 2020 by a bunch of audio fanatics. The brand of Yanyin comprises the Latin letters “R” and “D” which signify the corporate’s dedication to analysis and growth. By using in-depth acoustics know-how Yanyin try to supply high-quality IEMs for a good worth.
Total, Yanyin IEMs have been crowd-favorites and an open secret within the IEM fanatic neighborhood as a good selection for well-tuned merchandise. Yanyin don’t attempt to wow with unorthodox driver configurations or different gimmicks with comparatively easy multi-driver implementations being their specialty. Lots of their IEMs have switches to fine-tailor the tuning.
Yanyin’s hottest product appears to be the Canon II, which Yagiz selected to award with the “Headfonia Advisable” badge. I’ve additionally spent appreciable time with it, and for the longest time, it was my favourite within the $300 vary. I’ve not too long ago taken for a whirl their all-BA flagship the Carmen, which shocked me by not being a vocal professional. It’s a critically enjoyable 10 BA IEM with a formidable low-end punch.
Yanyin Canon Professional
The Canon II was my first encounter with Yanyin. I used to be fairly clueless concerning the model and didn’t understand it was an underground legend amongst IEM fanatics. For sure, like my colleague, I used to be fairly impressed by the present the Canon II placed on. Whereas it wasn’t a very impartial IEM, the nice and cozy tuning did wonders with most music, and I’d fortunately suggest them to most individuals.
Constructing on the legacy of the Canon II, the Yanyin Canon Professional can also be a hybrid design with a dynamic driver mixed with 6 balanced armatures. The diaphragm materials of the dynamic driver has been modified from natural to liquid-crystal polymer, and the design is a 4-way as an alternative of a 3-way. This transformation has additionally elevated the variety of output nozzles to 4.
What’s unchanged is the 3D-printed resin shell and two micro switches to tweak the response of excessive and low frequencies. As I did with the Canon II, I shortly discovered my most popular setting and caught to that for many of my listening. To me, each switches up gave one of the best stability and a signature that I deemed to enhance the Canon Professional one of the best.
Options
- 1 dynamic driver and 6 balanced armature vented shell acoustic method
- 4-way digital crossover
- 4 output ducts
- Medical-grade resin shell
- 20Hz-25kHz frequency response
- 18-ohm impedance
- 104dB/mW effectivity
- 121.4dB/V sensitivity
- 0.78mm 2-pin flush connectors
- 1.2m single crystal copper, 22AWG 140 core cable
- Soldered 3.5mm, 2.5mm and 4.4mm jacks accessible
- Two 2-way tuning switches, improve and reduce bass
Design, Construct & Haptics
Casing
The field that the Canon Professional is available in is nothing out of the extraordinary – onerous cardboard in a shiny sleeve. The one factor I miss is a measurement curve on the again and a extra thorough clarification of what every of the tuning switches does. The IEMs themselves sit fairly within the foam cutout, and many of the mox is devoted to holding the pleather onerous case.
Utilizing the IEMs on the go is made fairly simple with the puck-shaped carry case. It’ll simply maintain the Canon Professional and the chunky cable. Possibly even a dongle DAC, if it’s sufficiently small. I additionally pack one other pair of ideas in order that I can swap them round for enjoyable. Total, each the carrying case and the carton are first rate for his or her objective. It baffles me that the costlier Carmen had fewer equipment.
Construct High quality
Asian producers have just about perfected the artwork of the 3D-printed acrylic IEM ear shell. The Canon Professional has a reasonably catchy design on the faceplate, however I’m not offered on the font they’ve used for the “Canon” label. What I’m very offered on is the truth that Yanyin use metallic output nozzles. As with each different hybrid design, they’re not small, however I had no hassle with the match.
The cable that comes with the Yanyin Canon Professional can also be fairly first rate. Like with most of their IEMs, it has just one non-removable jack to lower cable impedance. You possibly can select from 2.5mm TRRS, 3.5mm TRS, and 4.4mm TRRRS when ordering. The one downside I had with mine was the size; for some cause, it was simply 1m lengthy! Linsoul apologized and advised me that I certainly hadn’t grown 20cm in a single day, and Yanyin manufacturing had a minor blunder.
Isolation
When commuting or within the workplace, the isolation is greater than ample to get pleasure from music with out distractions. Like all ported IEMs, the Canon Professional lets some noise in, nevertheless it’s solely audible when nothing is taking part in. Total, I believe that the port is a good compromise to get additional low-end and guarantee that there’s no strain build-up upon insertion.
Sound Signature and Technicalities
My important testing system for the Yanyin Canon Professional was the Topping x Holo Centaurus driving the DROP + SMSL HO150 and two transportable rigs – the (trans)transportable FiiO Q15 and the cheerful Snowsky Retro Nano.
Out of all of the units I examined, the Yanyin Canon wasn’t significantly onerous or fussy to drive. Even dinky dongles had been capable of ship greater than sufficient energy for even extraordinarily dynamic classical data, and my desktop gear didn’t have hassle with noise or extreme acquire.
The Canon Professional, like its predecessor, comes with two tuning switches that may improve or lower the bass. The inventory impartial tuning is when one swap is up and the opposite is down. I flipped each microswitches to the ON place, which will increase the bass and makes it extra in step with the mids. The default setting to me appeared a tad too mid-centric.
I additionally tried the Canon Professional with sign chains of many alternative calibers and the IEMs usually had been capable of sustain and show a rise in general constancy because the accompanying gear elevated in high quality.
Total Tonality
Just like the Yanyin Canon II, the Canon Professional nonetheless retains quite a lot of midrange prominence that made its predecessor revered by many listeners. The default tuning to me appeared a bit bass mild, and I most popular the elevated low-end because it balanced out the midrange. There’s additionally a diminished low-end possibility with each switches down, which was too shiny for me.
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