CrinEar Protocol Micro Ultra-Portable DAC-Amplifier

Simple, effective, and easy to use.

Super easy to set up via hangout’s graph database in Chrome. This has basically replaced the need for my Qudelix 5K as I don’t mind being tethered to my phone via a cable.

Surprisingly good, really

I received this unit as promotional deal to my Nightfall purchase. I have used it extensively with the aforementioned IEMs for the past couple of weeks; in short, it goes really well with Nightfall for its clarity and spatial direction notably. Comparing it to my goto DAC ifi Gryphon would not be fair, but surprisingly if fares well in rendering a clear drum/bass beats and especially, in spatial/ directional arrangements (not so much open feel, but more of technical separation) using the Nightfall. However, the sound integrity suffers at low and high frequencies at high volume play. Compared to older iBasso dangle and the iPhone dangle, I can easily say this dangle dac outperforms them (as long as bass is not key factor to the listener)

Great functionality and value

Costs the same as a decent quality commodity dongle, but ALSO has a configurable EQ built in. I would definitely recommend this over other dongles that cost the same, but do not have a built in EQ. Very easy to configure, too, although it does require a web connection.