Now I have my Tripowin Olina with the Carbon Nanotube diagram. Though I suspect, I hope it does well for the hype it created. So let’s start before the hyping cloud the mind.
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Box, Tripowin Olina and the Cable
Box is a cool looking box. Design elements are all over the box. But what’s within are slightly meh. Besides storage box for the cable, meshes and the tips, there is nothing else save some documents.
Olina is the design pattern of Tripowin iems since Mele. Looking mundane and doing their jobs with no fancy design elements.
Cable is nicely braided, dark gray in color. Connectors are thin. Wearing it is easy.
- Brand & Model. Tripowin X HBB Olina.
- Driver. 10mm High Performance Dynamic Driver with Cavity.
- Max RatedPower. 100mW.
- Diaphragm Material. Carbon Nanotube (CNT)
- 32ohm.
- 110dB/mW @1KHz.
- Frequency response range. 10-43KHz.
- THD. ＜ 0.2%@1KHz.
Sound
I am doing this review on flat frequency graphed V30. So it can show me it naked. Timbre is neutral to straightforward dark. Soundstage is almost enveloping at live recordings. Pretty smooth overall. Presentation is bodied and slightly forward. This a two sided blade since some genres request otherwise. We’ll come down on that later. Layering is more than nice. I can hear and seperate the main singer and the vocalist behind. The same goes for multiple layered studio recordings too.
Bass is in where needed. Even though this measured bass, I can’t say the same for the resolution part. While electronic tracks aren’t poor on details, the slam is disappointing in certain moments. I’d expect the bass drop at dubstep to shake my stomach to call that iem pretty strong on bass. Instead, there is only a “bass flavor”. Bass guitars are non detailed pretty smoothed bung bungs in one of the most renowned audiophile benchmark track Jazz at the Pawnshop – Limehouse blues. Plus not that lively in that record too. But when it comes to bands / tracks full of fun, things change. See any blues such as The Nighthawks – Chicken and the Hawk. Roll off of frequencies doesn’t matter at all since overall is more than decent and its layering is very good. But again because some might consider that bass boomy at live recording of Hans Zimmer where everything should shine bright and clear as a diamond at this perfectly auditioned performance. But sorry, this is Olina. You get what you pay. And mid bass thump can occur depending on the group and the track. A fine example of it is RATM – Killing In The Name.
Mid is not shy of coming forward. Vocals too. Considering this alone, it can be carelessly labeled as “Bassier version of HM”. But I’d disagree because the lack of upper mids are not that high in Olina. And not that holographic like HM in my experience. Plus seperation too. It can get blurred at God is An Astronaut’s fast rhymes when the track is on the attack phase of post rock. Although not perfect,
Treble is okay in the first glance. But concentrating is showing me that high frequencies aren’t able to go higher at least on V30. Plus somewhat lifeless, not in 3d. And extensions not so lingering in the air. I’ll see it’s amped performance later.
