I feel I owe you an apology I actually did the Tanya mod to my Olinas and they now sound even better!
lesson learned to keep an opened mind
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This is so true. I am looking forward to the blue ones being available, and I am certain I will pick up another pair.
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More blue in the world never hurt anyone 
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huh blue??
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I strongly believe those were just samples that @hawaiibadboy selected the final design from, however I also dig blue one and would happily be wrong with this statement
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Yeah, Tripowin is missing a matching cable, it would be nice with a Tripowin Altea cable but with black metallics and a non-resessed 2-pin connector. The alternate blackish shell would be sweet no matter what face plate they put on it, maybe they are saving it for a retune, different product, etc.
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The Blue set is absolutely gorgeous. My goodness.
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Agreed that black and white one looks like a monochrome ( that doesnāt exist ) EJ07M, which is also pretty cool. Any of them would have worked, but I am always partial to blue. I even paired a nice blue cable with my blue Mele.
I dig the one in the middle. Canāt we do a poll and let the people decide which design should be released?
looks like pedicureā¦fetish anyone lol mos def gonna buy if its releasing with a different tuning warmer sounding tuning I hope! It looks HOT so it makes sense to sound like it too
yo HBB!! did you get my PM?!
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Holy Moly that looks sick!!!
Oh my god those Olinas are gorgeous 
Iād love to see different colors or some slight retune to fix the brightness/harshness (basically just perfect the nozzle/filter?). Iām getting used to the pain the Olina rewards more than it punishes. Iāve noticed that my Olina is a magnet for gunk on the filter, waiting on the Tanyas. None of my other iems have this problem. Whatās up with Tripowin nailing everything else but the filters 
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Makes you work a bit to squeeze out every ounce of performance 
Iāve tried:
- double mesh mod
- Tanya mesh mod
- Tanya mesh mod + cotton mesh on front vent (using this now)
- numerous tips
And now Iām very happy with them 
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Honestly, this sounds like fun. Yes listening to music is what itās all about, but this hobby is so much more. I kind of like how engaging the Olina is while music is playing but also when it isnāt. Modular (to some degree) beautiful, and they also sound great.
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I just realized that the single ended stock cable is really limiting the true beauty of the mighty Olina, but bear in mind that this is my experience with my system so YMMV. And also two things has changed : the cable and balanced termination.
My gear : Pi2AES > Bifrost 2 > Jotunheim 2 > ddHifi XLR to 4.4mm adapter > NiceHCK LitzOCC 4N Litz OCC Copper Cable 4.4mm > Olina
What changed? The sound become more effortless, microdynamics is better, macrodynamics is a bit better, still as musical, and now the sound feels like itās coming from a full size headphone or speakers. Itās quite an upgrade.
Even if you donāt have balanced system, I think itās still worthwhile to upgrade to an aftermarket cable. NiceHCK and XINHS have good cables for cheap. Mine is just $15 at ali.
I know Olina can scales up really well but it really surprised me how high Olina can go. Holy cow!
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Did you db match too?..other wise 
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I donāt have SPL meter so I canāt do db match. I just adjust the volume to what I feel one level before being uncomfortable because itās too loud.
I know ideally to do the test we have to :
- do double blind testing
- do db match
- have all other component being equal
- have 2 exact same iems so that we can ABing between both
otherwise, āyouāre biased!ā say the purist.
But I just want to enjoy my music, I donāt want to do any of those stuff. And Iāve listened to olina for more than a month now, I listened one more time before changing to balanced cables. So take it with a ton of salt if you will. This hobby is highly subjective anyway.
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