The signature of the Micro BL is, on a scale of exciting to sterile, strays pretty far into the exciting camp of things (perhaps too far for some) and on the warmth scale, doesn’t seem to exhibit too much warmth in its presentation if any at all. Though in fairness, by playing around with the different power and output settings (Eco/Normal/Turbo power settings with High/Ultra/Off IEMatch settings) you can adjust to a setting that gives you a good volume at 12 o’clock with virtually any IEM. As an amplifier, the Micro BL is very clean and extremely powerful, never distorting audibly except in the rare cases where the knob is maxed out. I primarily use the Micro BL on Eco mode and Ultra Sensitivity due to the relatively low volumes I listen at (I typically average at 10 o’clock on the volume pot, dependent on the IEM used of course). What I’ll be writing about shall be mostly on the subjective listening and personal use side of things.

In terms of the technical nitty-gritty details, I shall defer to the venerable their ridiculously in-depth analysis. In this regard, the Micro BL isn’t the one to prove to me that IEMs “scale” with power (as with every other DAP I’ve tried that is available on the market), but is still an immensely useful piece of gear to my work for other reasons. In my new arsenal of testing equipment is the Micro BL, a unit that ifi has graciously granted me for review and subsequently for future review use at my request (I was personally looking for a Micro BL to play around with long before the community representative contacted me).Īs most of my readers should be well aware, I’m primarily an IEM specialist and I hardly step outside this circle so this review will be from a perspective of an “agnostic” of source-end scaling rather than someone who rolls with tons of source gear (though make no mistake, I have my fair share of DAP experience as well). It’s been a good few weeks of my time back in Singapore, and in that time I’ve been back at trying my hand at all the new gear that I’ve missed out over the past half a year I was gone.

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