šŸ”¶ Tripowin X HBB Olina

Looks like your preferences and library are close to mine.
I had a 6xx and Fidelio X2HR but sold them recently to have portability with IEMs.

Now I have Olina SE (amazing for jazz, acoustics and vocals) and Mangird Tea 2 (goes for rock, metal and progressive part of my library). I’m very happy with both.
I know that Tea 2 is above your budget (around $300), but worth the consideration for maybe a future upgrade.
Check @nymz review about them:

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Sorry I wrote my reply last night fairly drunk lol

I meant to say this in my comment, I found my OH10 Second hand for $80 - keep a look out on the second hand market, head-fi mostly, I’m sure you’ll be able to find a pair of OH10s for close to $100 as they’re about 3 years old now. If you can, pull the trigger - they’re great for that money.

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Not gonna lie, they are tempting to get simply for how gorgeous they look. It’s like a cool ass geode.

Thanks for the recommendation, I’m planning on selling my Schiit stack. So that’ll give me around $250 hopefully, and I could possibly use that cash for another pair. Another thing is I ordered the new Sony Xperia 5 IV (a phone with a headphone jack hallelujah!) bundle. So it’ll come with basically a free pair of XM4 earbuds, another thing I can sell for my IEM addiction.
So far the Mangird Tea 2 and Penon Serial are my main 2 interests for stuff in the higher end ($300 range). Do you have any experience in returning IEMs? Just wondering if it is not going to be problematic.

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I live in Brazil, so the only option to buy IEMs is from AliExpress and their returning policy is a pain in the a$$.
If I don’t like something I put on sale or try to exchange in some local audiophile groups.

I know that Amazon has a very good returning policy and some guys here can talk more about it.

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Tripowin x HBB Olina SE

I’m in love with this set… some of the best tonal balance I’ve heard yet…

Pros:
Balanced, extremely well for my library
Good quality treble
Best DD iem I’ve heard to date

Cons:
Not bass head level bass
Not treble head level treble
Not planar level separation (but close, damn close)

This is one of my top 3 favorite sets… tuning is the closest to ā€œneutralā€ I’ve heard… if I were to have a target curve it would be close to this… real close… like, maybe a couple db more bass and air… that’s it… and like I’m talking one or two db more, zeos style… haha but that’s nit picking.

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This is the shortest review I’ve ever read. Even I make them longer :grinning:

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Haha what the YouTube video is for… just want to at least give a TLDR and not just drop a link haha

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You can skip the Starfield entirely: all the new sub 100$ iems are really close to it (Aria, T3+, Titan S, Heart Mirror Pro,…) and it is cursed by the Moondrop QC.

Your wallet will thank me :wink:

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My review of the Tripowin x @hawaiibadboy Olina SE is now live and serves as an appendix to my extensive review of the Olina OG.

Hope you enjoy the reading and have a nice week!

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I could not agree with your review more if you had taken my review and stolen it :slight_smile: I think you nailed the hammer absolutely on the head.

(That’s how that goes, right?) lol

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I would second the Obsidian I enjoy it very much even with higher end IEM’s I have still has a place and won’t sell it.!

Great review @nymz :cookie:
Now the question is how does Olina SE compare to Shortbus Olina?

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Good question, would also like to see feedback on that.

Shortbus Olina is Tanya Filter, right?

From memory, slightly better.

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I believe it could be Tanya plus medium foam nozzle filter.

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Ah, the Unkown Soldier?

That’s a different thing. I did try it once and I didnt really liked it so yeah, SE.

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I mean the double filter mod.

I mean the double filter mod. based on the graph it seems a bit warmer than SE with more bass and less upper freqs.

Edit: Based on Paul’s measurements they’re identical past 200Hz: