Review: 5 Reasons Crave's Duet Vibrator Is Perfect for Me

Meet the clitoral vibrator that ruined hundreds of other micro compact massagers for this sex toy reviewer.

My friend's jaw dropped when I showed him my Crave Duet Classic:

• The met­al heft
• The pow­er­ful punch it packs — one of the best in its size class
• The direct in-​unit USB con­nec­tion — no charg­ing cord required
• How many times I have come on it and how well it fits my body

It's per­fect for me and so worth the lux­u­ry price tag. I've lost count of how many sex toys I've tried, and yet, Crave's Duet Classic ris­es to the top as pos­si­bly my all-​time favorite micro com­pact purse car­ry vibra­tor I've ever tried.

If I had to restart my sex toy col­lec­tion, I'd go straight for the Crave Duet Classic above all oth­er mini-vibes.

And yes, I adore Duet more than the cult fan favorite We-​Vibe Tango X. Let's break down how this vibra­tor com­pares to oth­ers and what I love about it.

How Crave's Duet Classic stands out in the industry

Crave, as a com­pa­ny, boasts ele­gance, per­for­mance, and mak­ing his­to­ry. Duet, their flag­ship prod­uct, was the world wide web's first crowd-​funded sex toy, dat­ing back to 2011 — and unlike many of Crave's coun­ter­parts, Duet leads with lux­u­ry that lives up to the price tag.

(You can take $15 off Crave vibra­tors and jew­el­ry with code SMASH)

Here's how it com­pares to oth­er exter­nal vibra­tors I've tried. The Crave Duet's Classic's…

• Prongs are sharp­er and more pin­point than the We-​Vibe Tango X
• Build and charg­ing are more easy-​breezy and travel-​friendly than the Zumio
• Clitoral sur­round sound expe­ri­ence is more intense than the Je Joue Amour
• Vibration qual­i­ty is rum­bli­er than Blush's Limited Addiction
• Tips are the right bal­ance of flex­i­ble and firm for me, espe­cial­ly com­pared to count­less rabbit-​style vibra­tors I've tried.
• Shape is more ver­sa­tile than the Le Wand Chrome Deux — and yes, Le Wand's ver­sion is a less­er attempt­ed copy of the Crave Duet.

And also, how often do you see this deep pen­e­tra­tion princess this excit­ed about an exter­nal vibra­tor? Exactly.

If I had to restart my sex toy col­lec­tion, I'd go straight for the Crave Duet Classic above all oth­er mini-vibes.

Here’s why.

The Duet Classic's pointed tips envelop my clit with precision.

These edges are round­ed but firm and sharp com­pared to so many oth­er cli­toral vibra­tors I've tried, focus­ing vibra­tions on either side of my clit.

I can hold it in place and let it do its thing. I can twist it around my clit like with a nip­ple clamp. I can angle Duet to get pres­sure along the flat sides or con­cen­trate it fur­ther with the point­ed tips.

If you mas­tur­bate with your fin­ger­nails on the out­side, you'll prob­a­bly love Crave's Duet — dou­bly so if you hug your clit with two fingers.

Triply so if you love grab­bing it.

Duet doesn't need a huge motor for max­i­mum res­o­nance when you can squeeze the tips togeth­er and get rough.

And if not? Loosen your grip. Turn the speed down. The tips' flex­i­bil­i­ty and the base's con­trol pan­el make both easy, for a wide range of sensations.

It's impressively strong for its size — and enough to overwhelm me.

Remember my friend's jaw drop­ping? Yeah, that was in reac­tion to the motor and how he did not expect the Crave Duet's vibra­tions to feel like that, packed into a toy about as thick as a centimeter.

This isn't a mat­ter of one motor at the base vibrat­ing and trav­el­ing through the prongs.

There is, in fact, one motor in each prong, allow­ing for more move­ment at the tip — and only at the tip. The base is weight­ed with steel for min­i­mal vibra­tion trans­fer to the handle.

And the vibes are strong at the high­est speed, leav­ing me over­stim­u­lat­ed when I squeeze the tips togeth­er. I will absolute­ly whim­per and beg if a part­ner uses it on me and is being mean with the con­trols. It is too much for me.

But for solo play? Oh, gosh, the con­trol pan­el is so lovely.

Crave Duet Classic Specs

• 4.5” total length
• 1” wide x 0.5” deep
• 1.6” long x 0.4” wide prongs
• Steel base and sil­i­cone coat
• 5 steady speeds and 3 patterns
• Up to 40 min­utes of play time on high

5 buttons and 5 speeds allow for tight control over intensity.

I fuck­ing love a vibra­tor with a three-​button con­trol pan­el for bring­ing the speed up and down.

I respect sim­plic­i­ty, but I adore control.

'Cause if I get super sen­si­tive after cum­ming, I want to be able to turn the speed down to the lev­el I like, and fast.

Crave's Duet Classic has three buttons:

• Short-​press to decrease vibra­tion intensity
• Short-​press to cycle through the rhythms, or long-​press to turn on and off
• Short-​press to increase inten­si­ty or hold down to go straight to the high­est "tur­bo mode"

The speed set­tings range from a soft, low, and rumbly 60 Hz to a sharp, bit­ing 180 Hz. There are 4 inten­si­ties that lay­er with 4 func­tions (steady vibra­tion and 3 pat­terns), plus one high­er "tur­bo mode" for a total of 17 settings.

The pat­terns play with move­ment — quick puls­es and alter­na­tion back and forth between prongs. I'm not as into the pat­terns, but they're wel­come when I'm over­stim­u­lat­ed (which can and does hap­pen when I'm prac­ti­cal­ly clit clamp­ing with the Duet Classic.)

Crave Duet Classic vs. Duet Pro difference

And if you love pro­gram­ming pat­terns and rhythms, con­sid­er the Duet Pro upgrade. With the Pro ver­sion, you get to use the direct USB con­nec­tion to both charge the bat­tery and install settings.

A vibra­tor that charges via USB‑C is cool. A vibra­tor that plugs right into the USB port is even cooler.

There's a ser­i­al num­ber for log­ging in — no wor­ries about hack­ers con­trol­ling your vibra­tor from afar — it's super privacy-​conscious, as vibra­tor pro­gram­ming should be. It also puls­es to let you know how much bat­tery is left.

And there's a swanki­er stor­age pouch with the Duet Pro, I guess.

But real talk: I'm ter­ri­ble with sex toy stor­age and charg­ing — which brings me to my next point.

Direct USB connection lets you charge without a cord.

There is no cord with the Crave Duet — you just pull the top from the base and con­nect the lat­ter into a USB port. That's it. No wor­ries if you keep it togeth­er with the charg­ing cord. No wor­ries if you can't find a cord that match­es your device.

A vibra­tor that charges via USB‑C is cool. A vibra­tor that plugs right into the USB port is even cooler.

And Ti Chang, design­er of Duet, has a patent on the way it charges. So even though oth­er vibra­tors with direct in-​unit USB charg­ing exist, they're real­ly not sup­posed to be using the same tech­nol­o­gy. And they don't mea­sure up to the Crave Duet anyway.

You just have to move on, Ti said, more excit­ed about mak­ing new products.

But in case you're curious:

• The Unihorn bul­let is cheap, cute, and fine for what it is. It lacks the pow­er and pin­point focus of the Crave Duet.
• LELO's Mia 3 is a bit bet­ter, but again, still too dif­fuse for me to give a damn.
• Le Wand's Chrome Deux super­fi­cial­ly adopt­ed a two-​pronged design but also lacked the Duet's beveled points.

Do you see a pat­tern here? You can try to copy the charg­ing mech­a­nism and ele­gant vibes, but ulti­mate­ly, if you're not start­ing your design from a con­sumer expe­ri­ence per­spec­tive, you're miss­ing the point.

Figuratively and literally.

The small, independent maker gives a damn about the consumer experience.

Ti Chang was the change she want­ed to see in the adult nov­el­ty indus­try — a design­er who:

• Turned toys into a regal rit­u­al of respect, like the process of putting on jew­el­ry and feel­ing the hefty met­al warm­ing up against your skin
• Was inspired by how many women mas­tur­bate with two fin­gers, like a “hug” sur­round­ing the clitoris
• Was sen­si­tive to sex toy users’ embar­rass­ment and shame, and designed a dis­creet way around that. When the show­er is the only “me” time some­one gets, a vibra­tor that's pow­er­ful, water­proof, qui­et, and com­pact is a big fuck­ing deal

Maybe now, in the mid-​2020s, it's easy to take for grant­ed that:

• Female mas­tur­ba­tion isn't as taboo as it used to be
• Sex toys designed by women for women to buy make more sense than sex toys designed by men for oth­er men to buy for their wives
• Reviewers can help you fil­ter out the noise
• Elegance is now eas­i­er to come by in the indus­try because of design­ers like Ti

…but it wasn't always that way. And Crave con­tin­ues to stand out as a sump­tu­ous slow fash­ion favorite — con­trast­ing with this era's AI slop sea, drop-​ship sat­u­ra­tion, and whiplash from fast-​turning consumptioncore.

Ti just wants to make plea­sure prod­ucts that prac­ti­cal­ly speak for them­selves the moment some­one picks one up:

• The “oh, wow" at the met­al and mass dis­tri­b­u­tion (pack­ing a punch with­out send­ing sen­sa­tion to your hand)
• My friend's eyes widen­ing when the motor kicked in
• Instant recog­ni­tion: “Yes, this is for me" for any­one who has mas­tur­bat­ed with two fin­ger­tips or a fingernail

Her design choic­es show that she gets it as both the user and the designer.

Who is Crave's Duet Classic for and not for?

While Crave isn't for every­one, their Duet Classic is per­fec­tion for pin­point princess­es like me.

If you mas­tur­bate with your fin­ger­nails on the out­side, you'll prob­a­bly love Crave's Duet — dou­bly so if you hug your clit with two fingers

I'm exactly the Crave Duet's target audience:

• I love pin­point stim­u­la­tion with the prongs and sharp edges — and appre­ci­ate abun­dant vibra­tion strength, but don't have a clit of steel
• I crave a vibra­tor with but­tons to turn the speed up and down
• I'm awful at keep­ing track of my charg­ing cords (unflat­ter­ing but true!)
• I enjoy bring­ing toys with me in my purse for date night 
  • Bonus: my part­ner loved grind­ing with the Duet Classic between us
• I'm will­ing to spend more mon­ey and treat myself to quality

Duet was a gift from Crave, but I have bought their prod­ucts — specif­i­cal­ly Vesper — before for per­son­al use and for com­par­i­son oth­er vibra­tor neck­laces.

I love how Duet envelops my clit and digs in to clinch as much or as light­ly as I want it to.

How often do you see this deep pen­e­tra­tion princess this excit­ed about an exter­nal vibra­tor? Exactly.

Take $15 off with code SMASH when you shop Duet and oth­er Crave vibra­tors.

Who wouldn't like the Crave Duet Classic?

I get that not every­one is into Crave's com­pact luxe, though, such as:

• Those who crave broad stim­u­la­tion or are irri­tat­ed by sharp sen­sa­tions (get a wand instead, or at least some­thing more round­ed like the Hot Octopuss Pulse Queen)
• Those who absolute­ly need a low-​pitch rum­ble to get off
• Someone who needs ample bat­tery life — the Crave Duet Classic runs for up to 40 min­utes on the high­est speed, which doesn't both­er me, but might not be enough for others
• Someone with grip issues or big fin­gers — the but­tons are tiny and can be hard to press for some users.
• Someone want­i­ng cute and cud­dly on a bud­get. Crave's Duet Classic is com­pact but luxe and bold.

While it isn't the ulti­mate crowd-​wower, it's arguably the best in its size class. Those who get it, get it. It's the oppo­site of trendy: a flag­ship clas­sic I keep com­ing back to.