Yincrow is no stranger to higher end earbuds. They first set the bar high with the original RW-1000 in 2019, then followed with a flagship challenger RW-2000 a year later. Now, they released another upgrade of the RW series, the RW-3000, aiming for the crown of the earbuds’ market.
RW-3000 pretty much retains mostly the same signature housing design element as RW series from previous years – based the same titanium alloy but with a fancier design and actually just a tiny bit smaller in size. All and all, it results in an lighter housing that is equally (if not more) comfortable in use. It still comes with more or less the same type of 4 cores braided silver wrapped single crystal copper wire like RW-2000 but in a different color combo and cryogenically treated. The true upgrade is however really in its heart – with a new dynamic driver with 4 layers fused high molecule diaphragm.
Spec
Driver: 15mm
Sensitivity: 113dB/mW
Impedance: 16 ohms
Frequency Response: 10Hz ~ 40kHz
Distortion: <1%
Channel Matching: <1dB
Rated Power 5mW
Max Power: 20mW
RW-3000 (left) vs RW-2000 (right)
The first thought that comes to my mind when trying to describe RW-3000 is the word ‘balanced’ – Yincrow has been tweaking / crafting its own sound signature since RW-1000 with its various reversions to try and find a compromise between technically strong vs musically pleasing. RW-2000 is where they find the middle ground, and RW-3000 is where they make it grand. You will find RW-3000 follows the same warmish sound signature from RW-2000, with a much bigger soundstage and better extension on both ends. The result is a sound that is well tuned and balanced, versatile on all genre and doesn’t bias toward any particular frequency. I won’t call it flawless per se, but certainly it doesn’t have any obvious weakness to speak of. It is what you will expect from a ToTL earbuds
Perhaps the only obvious issue - especially for those of who are familiar with the earbuds market and perhaps own the RW-2000, is that RW-3000 isn’t cheap - priced pretty close to the upper end of what you would expect from a ToTL earbuds these days. Given the level of performance and build quality, the price is still justifiable, thought certainly not quite as high in price/performance ratio as the previous RW models. The only thing I’ll ask is that instead of offering different version of termination (*3.5mm single-ended, 2.5mm Balanced and 4.4mm balanced), they could have just included an exchangeable plug with all the different tips, such as what FiiO had done on their EM5. That would have really perfected the whole package.
p/s: if you wonder why the tile said 'Holy Cow' - it is because Yincrow always adopts an bovine nickname in Chinese for the RW series. RW-1000 is 大牛 (= big cattle), RW-2000 is 野牛 (= bison) and RW-3000 is 天牛 （= heavenly cow). So holy cow?
RW-3000 pretty much retains mostly the same signature housing design element as RW series from previous years – based the same titanium alloy but with a fancier design and actually just a tiny bit smaller in size. All and all, it results in an lighter housing that is equally (if not more) comfortable in use. It still comes with more or less the same type of 4 cores braided silver wrapped single crystal copper wire like RW-2000 but in a different color combo and cryogenically treated. The true upgrade is however really in its heart – with a new dynamic driver with 4 layers fused high molecule diaphragm.
Spec
Driver: 15mm
Sensitivity: 113dB/mW
Impedance: 16 ohms
Frequency Response: 10Hz ~ 40kHz
Distortion: <1%
Channel Matching: <1dB
Rated Power 5mW
Max Power: 20mW
RW-3000 (left) vs RW-2000 (right)
The first thought that comes to my mind when trying to describe RW-3000 is the word ‘balanced’ – Yincrow has been tweaking / crafting its own sound signature since RW-1000 with its various reversions to try and find a compromise between technically strong vs musically pleasing. RW-2000 is where they find the middle ground, and RW-3000 is where they make it grand. You will find RW-3000 follows the same warmish sound signature from RW-2000, with a much bigger soundstage and better extension on both ends. The result is a sound that is well tuned and balanced, versatile on all genre and doesn’t bias toward any particular frequency. I won’t call it flawless per se, but certainly it doesn’t have any obvious weakness to speak of. It is what you will expect from a ToTL earbuds
Perhaps the only obvious issue - especially for those of who are familiar with the earbuds market and perhaps own the RW-2000, is that RW-3000 isn’t cheap - priced pretty close to the upper end of what you would expect from a ToTL earbuds these days. Given the level of performance and build quality, the price is still justifiable, thought certainly not quite as high in price/performance ratio as the previous RW models. The only thing I’ll ask is that instead of offering different version of termination (*3.5mm single-ended, 2.5mm Balanced and 4.4mm balanced), they could have just included an exchangeable plug with all the different tips, such as what FiiO had done on their EM5. That would have really perfected the whole package.
p/s: if you wonder why the tile said 'Holy Cow' - it is because Yincrow always adopts an bovine nickname in Chinese for the RW series. RW-1000 is 大牛 (= big cattle), RW-2000 is 野牛 (= bison) and RW-3000 is 天牛 （= heavenly cow). So holy cow?
ClieOS
@Spie1904 The driver's diameter is roughly the same as a typical MX500 style earbuds, but the back chamber of the housing is smaller.
sofastreamer
i own and absolutely love the Fiio EM5 and wonder how they compare. had anyone the chance to listen to both side by side?
