Trippin to this on VULKAN right now
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TRN KIRIN = GK10 Can anyone say Geek World V2 !
LOL I just read most of that thread.
Sorry couldnât help myself. This is ChiFi mostly after all.
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After last night Iâve got about 10 hours of listening on the Vulcan. The bass has something to it that I find extremely welcoming. Iâd put the bass impact at 3 leaning slightly towards 4. Its just thereâs something more to it. Maybe itâs what Precog mentioned as the tactility of it. Whatever the word itâs very unique. It gives the bass distinctness from other IEMs and for me is a touch of the pizzazz to its overall sound. I definitely think the Vulcan is a solid win for Dunu at least in my book.
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Hello fellow Vulcan I pretty much agree with your opinion. These are tuned rather neutral. The mids are the winner in this IEM. Iâd say itâs the best hybrid (DD + BA) IEM in my collection. Still Iâd welcome more of that juicy Vulcan bass.
I tried to PEQ it to go basshead level.
Unfortunately it distorts quickly over 3-4 db bass shelf at least for tracks like
Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
or Konx-Om-Pax - LA Melody
Strangely I could bump up Massive Attack - Teardrop to + 6db but it still doesnât compare to bass focused IEMs.
Itâs obvious to me that the 8 mm DD driver canât handle deep frequencies confidently.
If Dunu had used a >=10mm DD Driver (with their new foam tech) this thing would be epic.
Maybe they release an updated version with a bigger DD sometime in the future? Iâd welcome that.
Still the Vulcan is an excellent set for non bassheads. From me it gets a recommendation if someone is in the market for a mid focused neutral set. Still the bass that comes out is very juicy within its playing field.
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Agree. Bass , particularly mid bass is itâs 1 weak point.
Itâs not basshead (fine)
Itâs not accurate with something like a kick drum and bass line (less fine)
Love itâs overall smoothness without veiling the replay and is my fave Dunu but that bass lacks a kick even when you expect it should be there
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@hawaiibadboy Maybe not the right place for this, but a big Thank You for your
work bringing the Olina to us. Got mine earlier today after reading the reviews of you and others since it first was introduced. I was hesitant because I am usually an over-ear open headphone guy and the only iem I have tried is the recently purchased Ety ER2SE which give me the detail and vocal clarity I needâŚbut are uncomfortable after about 1/2 hour.
Took me a while to find the right eartips (medium whitish ones) but once i didâŚ
wellâŚshort version⌠WowâŚJustâŚWow. As a former music teacher, choral conductor, combo drummer and symphony timpanist/percussionist just⌠Wow.
Thank you!!
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Thanks for the trust. I greatly appreciate it 
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Hook X still on the recommendation list have to watch your last vid III again just being lazy and stoned.
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Hook X is still my person fave Planar and is the rec.
Keep smoking
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Love that cymbal slo-mo! I did just that MANY times! 
(Which is probably why I like the Olina so much!)
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I generally think that cymbals, hi-hats and all brass percussion instruments are hardest ones to get represented properly by any ear-/headphone. I donât know why, but it is quite easy to find ârealisticallyâ sounding guitar, piano, trumpets and vocals, but percussion more often than not sounds quite off in even expensive sets. This is the particular easily perceivable reason that makes MEST stand out from ones in below 300$ bracket
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I have been talking about cymbals for years because of what you mentioned.
Guitar particularly acoustic and vocals seem to be easier to find. Cymbals lean on a few specific points heavily and there are so many types.
When you hear it the way your own brain deems correct. it grabs you. Everything else is a subtle compromise unless it is obnoxiously bad
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In case of lossy formats, e.g. Mp3, high frequencies are the ones âmost targetedâ by compressing algorithms. In other words, these algorithms remove a lot of information in high frequencies (comparing relatively to amount removed in low frequencies) where cymbals and brass âliveâ. That is why cymbals and brass instruments can be sometimes the most audible sign of lossy format.
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Even without compression, cymbals can be hard to reproduce, imo.
The fact they carry loads of energy in a tiny temporal space is a part of the problem, I guess. The fact their fundamental lies in a frequency that is shared with âmediumâ instruments (guitar, voices, âŚ) Doesnât help either.
Agree with all of you. Percussion is much more complex than most people realize. Same drum, cymbal, bell, whatever produces very different sounds
depending on stick/mallet used, where it is struck and force used. This variety
was wonderful to me even as a child experimenting with my Momâs pots and pans and oatmeal boxes! I became not only a combo drummer, but symphony
percussionist as well, particularly timpanist which also requires a fine
sense of pitch (acquired as a young singer.) All that variety of overtones is what makes percussion instruments, particularly cymbals so difficult to record,
and our various tonal memories complicate things even further in that we have
different opinions of what sounds ârightâ to us. Physics yes, but also just plain
FUN!
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Tell me thatâs you 
I trip on drum and bass covers constantly.
This is why tucked mid bass tuning kills my soul.
Igor is one of my favourite drummer 
I heard him live around one year ago in Warsaw at Fingerstyle Festival when played with Janek Pentz.
Just listen to the one of the recent concert
To skip âpolish blah blahâ, after 1st track go to 7:25
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