Well, I start like this:
With the CA Atlas, I sometimes wished for some bass to be taken back.
At CA Andromeda I sometimes wanted a little more bass.
At CA Solaris, I wanted more compatibility here and there with different musk genres.
At CA Andromeda Gold I wish: Much more time that I can spend with him.
That describes it in a comprehensive way in which direction it is going.
The CA Gold is simply an independent in-ear that actually has little in common with the Andromeda.
The tonal tuning is not to be compared with each other, he has a completely sufficient precise bass foundation to carry the music at all times, not just this analutically correct bass of the Andromeda.
Which is why the Andromeda is often considered boring and cannot be used for every genre.
(I personally don’t really see it this way)
I personally find the balanced and somewhat withdrawn tonality of the midd’s rather pleasant as weird, as crinacle described it.
Voices sound pleasantly reserved but always present.
The wonderful Agnes Obel, for example, with many headphones you have the feeling that she want to crawl into your ear in her recordings, the CA Gold creates a pleasant distance here, but at the same time a Neil Young with his rather thin voice is always present without that I have to use the volume control when playing the songs between these two artists.
Furthermore, I can at least see no discoloration of musical instruments.
And in the heights, Campfire Audio managed to get very close to the Solaris level.
I have a lot of detail, a lot of depth in the room and, unlike the Andromeda, also a fascinating representation of spatial height.
J.S.Bachs Toccata & Fuge sounds like you’re right in the church.
In addition, the voices as well as the instruments and the feeling of space are very well separated, so that it seems possible at any time to recognize almost perfectly where something is in the room and to be able to estimate the size of the room.
The song Little Room by Norah Jones, for example, triggers almost claustrophobic feelings.
In short, I am very, very satisfied and wish from my heart that the CA will do exactly this tuning of the CA Gold in an independent in-ear, or simply keep it in the portfolio.
It would be a shame to simply give up such a successful sound tuning.
Because the only reasonably critical voice that I read or heard about CA Gold in various reviews worldwide was that of crinacle, otherwise only positive comments everywhere.
That speaks for itself anyway.
It gives the impression that we have at least the same sound engineering understanding in some questions.