Introduction

MOONDROP is one of the more famous IEM brands today despite being under a decade old since inception. It has been covered multiple times already here and has even branched out to other product lines beyond just earphones. Likewise, there are over five instances of a product review here on TPU which involves a collaboration with IEM influencer Crinacle and brands such as FiiO, Truthear, SeeAudio, and 7Hz. Yet both MOONDROP and Crinacle are probably most known for their own collaboration in the past called the Blessing2:DUSK, which is a now-discontinued set that took the MOONDROP Blessing2 and changes tonality to make for a set of IEMs which was a big deal when it launched and continues to be relevant and compared to newer launches even today. When MOONDROP released the Blessing 3 last year, everyone had high expectations of the set which ended up being mediocre in multiple ways, but then anticipation built for a new Blessing 3: Dusk with Crinacle involved once again.


It took a year and there is a new Dusk out now. Except, it is titled MOONDROP x Crinacle DUSK with no mention of the Blessing series in it. Some of this is to do with the new DUSK being quite a bit more than just a re-tuning. It uses different drivers altogether, including micro-planar magnetic tweeters, to be a tribrid set instead of the hybrid driver configuration used in the Blessing 3. The tonality is different too, except the DUSK now takes advantage of what MOONDROP has been building up to over the last year, with a DSP cable to have pre-configured EQ profiles to further build upon the analog tuning of these IEMs. The MOONDROP x Crinacle DUSK thus has both analog and digital cables to check out in addition to different EQ profiles making it more of a Swiss army knife equivalent of IEMs. There is a lot to go over in this review thus, so let's thank MOONDROP and Crinacle, via SHENZHENAUDIO, for providing a review sample to TechPowerUp and begin with a look at the product specifications in the table below.

Specifications