Grand Oriveti Eminency Review: The Wooden Clarity
We’ve covered quite a few Oriveti IEMs on About Audio over the years, including the OH300, OH500, OH700VB, and OD200. Or “The Eminency”, as I’ll call it throughout this review, is quite a different Oriveti from the ones we’ve covered before. I’ve been appreciating Oriveti since the earlier days of my audiophile hobby, starting from the Primacy era, and the brand has steadily expanded from its classic hybrid IEMs into much more ambitious products over the years.
Grand Oriveti is Oriveti’s separate premium line-up dedicated to high-end products. Grand Oriveti Supremacy was the first model to debut the line-up, a $1,999 flagship that rolled out in 2025. After almost about a year later, Oriveti presents the second model of the flagship line-up – the Grand Oriveti Eminency.
Alongside this, Oriveti also presents the new portable USB DAC/amp – the Twin Revive. Let’s go in-depth on how the Eminency sounds, the details of the Twin Revive, and how the Eminency compares to its competitor flagship IEMs.
Packaging / Accessories
The Grand Oriveti Eminency gets a significant packaging upgrade compared to the older Oriveti products we’ve covered. It comes in a large orange outer box with black Grand Oriveti accents. Inside, you find a large genuine leather case. The leather case has 4 compartments with detachable built-in dividers. Each of these compartments is packed with paper boxes that include all accessories.
Premium Stabilized-wood Shells
The Eminency keeps the stabilized wood construction that the Supremacy introduced. Stabilized wood is natural wood impregnated with resin, which locks out moisture and keeps the material from warping or cracking. It also means no two shells come out identical, since the grain runs differently through every piece.
Tribrid, 13-Drivers per side.
While the Supremacy used warm and golden-colored stabilized wood, the Eminency goes darker – a combination of green, purple, and deep earth tones. The Eminency brings out a more solemn and premium feel and look. Eminency is a tribrid 13-driver IEM using 1DD+8BA+4PD per side. A single 10mm dynamic driver handles the lows. Eight balanced armatures cover the midrange and lower treble. Four planar magnetic drivers take the upper treble, which is the first time Grand Oriveti has used planars in place of the EST tweeters found in the Supremacy. Oriveti says the crossover took months to settle, aiming to create seamless transitions between three different driver types.
Considering the number of drivers (and how big IEMs are getting nowadays), the Grand Oriveti Eminency is quite compact and portable. The shells are close to the Supremacy in size, which puts them at adequate to compact by current flagship standards, and they’re light enough that the driver count doesn’t announce itself in the ear. Fit is excellent, and long sessions aren’t a problem.
Grand Oriveti Eminency Specifications
- Driver configuration: 1DD + 8BA + 4 Planar (13 drivers, tribrid)
- Dynamic driver: 10mm
- Shell material: Stabilized wood + resin
- Impedance: 11Ω
- Sensitivity: 109 ±3 dB/mW @ 1kHz
- Frequency response: 5Hz – 50,000Hz
- THD: 0.08%
- Stock Cable: Oriveti Grand Affinity (OCC + SP OCC)
- Connector: 0.78 mm 2-pin
- Plug: 4.4mm balanced
- Included cases: 2 × genuine leather
- Price: US$1,299
Custom Stock Cable: Oriveti ‘Grand Affinity’
The stock cable is the Grand Affinity, the same custom-grade cable Oriveti developed for the Supremacy. Conductors are a mix of OCC copper and silver-plated OCC, and the wires are fabric-shielded. It terminates in a gold-plated 4.4mm balanced plug with 0.78mm 2-pin connectors on the earpiece side.
The hardware is polished metal throughout, which looks the part against the wood shells. It does add weight. This is a heavier cable than the average stock cable, and you notice it when you first pick it up. In use, it stays manageable, and the light earpieces offset it well enough that the whole thing sits comfortably enough. The fabric braiding is tighter than average fabric cables, offering improved durability. Although the wires are very soft for their thickness and size, the fabric texture does make the cable a bit microphonic. It’s manageable, though I wouldn’t say it’s the quietest cable when it comes to outdoor usage.
Launched Alongside: The Oriveti Twin Revive
Oriveti didn’t just release an IEM this round. Released together is the brand’s first source device – the Twin Revive, a portable USB DAC/amp priced at $149. It’s the opening product in a new line Oriveti calls LINK, so this looks less like a one-off accessory and more like the start of a source lineup.
Inside is an ESS9281AC PRO handling conversion, with a pair of RT6863C op-amps for amplification and separated power and signal paths. Twin Revive features a Type-C connection with 3.5 single-ended output and 4.4mm balanced outputs.
It takes 32-bit/768kHz PCM and native DSD512, and the 4.4mm output puts out up to 4.2Vrms with THD+N rated at -114dB. The feature Oriveti pushes hardest is Smart Drive, which reads the connected load and adjusts drive behavior on the fly, keeping sensitive IEMs quiet while giving harder loads the current they need.
Design-wise, instead of the flat rectangular slab that nearly every portable DAC has settled on, the Twin Revive uses a CNC aluminum triangular prism body. It comes with a MagSafe elastic holder. Dongles normally dangle off the bottom of a phone and swing around while you walk, and the holder clamps the unit to the back of the phone so the whole thing travels as one object. The prism shape also lets it sit as a small desk stand when propped with the holder.
Paired with the Eminency, the Twin Revive works exceptionally well despite the accessible price. It has plenty of power to drive the GOE, and the level of sound quality is what I’d put in decent DAP territory; enough control and cleanliness that the Eminency doesn’t feel like it’s being held back by a $149 source. For anyone who wants the Grand Oriveti sound without carrying a full DAP, this is a great, easy setup to live with for an additional $149. And, of course, to drive your other IEMs on the go.
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