OLLO Audio: what they publish

In this database1 headphone
Figures from their own material1 of 1
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This page does not review anything OLLO Audio makes. It counts one thing: how much of what this database says about their products came out of their own documents, and how much had to be worked out or left blank.

Where each sensitivity figure came from

ModelImpedanceSensitivitySource of the figure
S5X50 Ω95.2 dB/mWConverted from a stated voltage

Impedance is almost always printed. Sensitivity is the one that goes wrong, because a decibel figure means two very different things depending on whether it is per milliwatt or per volt — about five decibels apart at 300 Ω and eighteen at 16 Ω. The conversion is here.

  • Converted from a stated voltage — 1: the maker prints a level at a stated drive voltage, converted here to per milliwatt

What they print, and what it is worth

ModelAs printedToleranceStandard
S5X15 Hz - 22 kHz sweep 1/3 oct p-p range (+/-1) 14.5 dBSPL14.5 dB peak-to-peaknot printed
 20 Hz - 20 kHz sweep 1/3 oct p-p range (+/-1) 12 dBSPL12 dB peak-to-peaknot printed

OLLO Audio prints a frequency range for the one model here whose sheet has been read.

Every one of those ranges carries a tolerance in decibels. That is rare enough to be the most useful sentence on this page: across the whole database only 58 of the 490 models with a printed range have one.

Every range stands under the same heading: “Frequency range”.

No measurement is published here — only what was printed. The whole count, maker by maker, is in the frequency response audit.

What reaches 100 dB on it

The OLLO Audio S5X needs 3.0 mW and 0.39 V for a 100 dB SPL peak at 50 Ω.

280 of the 280 sources here reach 100 dB on it, and the cheapest of them is the Apple USB-C dongle (EU) at $9. “Reaches” means the maker’s own published power figure is enough at that load; it is not a judgement of how it sounds.

Their lowest impedance is the OLLO Audio S5X at 50 Ω, so a source wants an output impedance at or below 6.2 Ω to satisfy the one-eighth rule on everything they make. 135 of the 169 sources that publish an output impedance manage that.

These counts use figures the source makers published themselves. A product that publishes nothing is not counted as a pass anywhere above, which is why the three numbers differ so much. The collection matcher runs the same arithmetic over whatever you actually own.

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