iBasso DX220 High Resolution Referent Digital Audio Player with 5.0" 1080P LCD Dual ES9028PRO, 8-core CPU, Two-Way Bluetooth 5.0 (Titanium)

Pros and cons: Pros: 1) Sound quality. Its just amazing, its like you music is reborn. I have 12,500 Flacs and DSD files and the sound this thing generates is GREAT. If you want superb sound quality buy this player 2) Bluetooth is rock solid. I sold a A and K SR-15 because the Bluetooth conductivity sucked. BT 5.0 is great, doesn't quite have the range I hoped for but much more than you really want or need. 3) APK installs are great, I found the installed music software a bit lacking (Mango) and after trying a few I really like HiBy Music software player.. I also have streamed Qobuz, Tidal and Spotify without issue. 4) Has built in casting for Chromecast or you can download and use BubbleUp. The streaming sound to my home system was eye opening and a VERY pleasant surprise- I did not (at all) expect this to sound as good as it did through my system. It was NOTICEABLE better than it has been through an other previous source other than Blu-ray. 5) You can download the apps for your headphones to update their firmware if need be. 6) Display is super sharp and clear - and bright. And if you keep it on all the time you will kill your battery REAL fast. If you can keep your eyes off it (hard, it is really nice) and be smart and dim the display you can easily get 10-12 hours out of it - and it partially recharges fast. You just cant keep the display on all the time, just like an IPhone or a Galaxy. Be smart and the battery concerns go away. 7) Did I mention the sound....It is SUPERB. I couldn't be happier. Cons: 1) Not having Google Play and having to use the APK's is a very minor annoyance - if you download software that is a trial and want to license it to get rid of ads, etc it's a bit of a PITA but can be done. Since this, for me, only really applies to music playing software and the HiBy Music works great, its a minor issue. I also have VLC, Foobar and Onkyo's HF player installed so lots of great options. 2) The display is so nice you want to keep it on...but again, its a battery killer so you have to show some restraint, something I am not good at. 3) The setup software is not super intuitive - takes a while to get in a groove using the DX220 but once you get used to it it's fine. My setup is this player, a 1TB MicroSD card (no issues) and my current "go to" are the new MW07 Plus earbuds. I have also used the Sennheisers Momentum's and PX550 (Two long plain flights) and the B and W's PX's (My favorite full size headset) and lastly, the Audeze Sine 20's. All sound so much better is pretty amazing. Lastly, this unit does need a burn in. They provide a special cable that goes into the 2.5 input and they want you to use it for burn in for 200 hours. Real pain in the ass first 10 days and you can use either Bluetooth or the standard 3.5 output while burning in to listen and since I mostly use BT it was just annoying. Initial impressions were that this unit was a bit to bright but it settles down very nicely as it burns in. If you can afford it (its not cheap), run, don't walk to buy this unit, you will NOT regret it !!!!!

I love this dap! The user interface is what I have wanted for years and then some. The display is clear, bright and simply wonderful. You can skim through albums via beautifully rendered album art. Two operating systems. It is so flexible and offers so many options that I have spent hours listening, changing IEMs, changing cables etc to listen to how it affected my music. It has been a really rewarding experience. The unit really seems well thought out. Sonically the DX220 is really quite good. It is slightly warm (which i like). It is resolving but musical and not analytical. It seems to me that iBasso chose an “good” sonic signature for the stock DX 220, while offering various Amp upgrades that promise to enhance one quality or the other. I have to admit that I have spent more on a dap and gotten far less. I think this is a real value and an absolute joy to use. Really well engineered. Highly recommended.

I wanted to love this, but it left me unimpressed. I transferred by collection of lossless files that were ripped from my own CDs and also listened to the highest quality MQA files from Tidal. I listen to classical music. I have been an audiophile for decades and own many sets of headphones as well as a $30k+ home audio system. The headphones I paired this with were sennheiser IE800s. I tried low medium and high gain but the sound remained flat and just sort of blah. The bass was way too polite. There was no comparison between the DX220/IE800 and my Mytek Brooklyn+ DAC/Sennheiser HD580/HD600. For a combination that costs $2k I was expecting more. One other huge downside -- battery life!! On a 2 hr plane flight the battery went from 100% to 40%. This was in airplane mode playing lossless files from an SD card. Disappointed. Gave it 4 stars for build quality and the packaging and also maybe because the IE800s just weren't the right match for the DX220.

1: App stores: it comes with ApkPure and CoolApk, but not Google Play. Unless you can read Chinese, go ahead and delete CoolApk; it hasn't been localized to other languages. ApkPure can also be confusing for English speakers. It's mostly globalised, but it recently made me click through... something... in Chinese. I hope I didn't agree to anything weird when I dismissed it. I supplemented them by side loading F-Droid and Amazon App Store from Chrome. F-Droid worked without issue, but Amazon crashed several times before I could log in. It seems to be running fine after I entered my password, so persevere! 2: Sound quality: in a word, amazing! Since this is the whole reason this device exists, it's great to hear it deliver! 3: Music Apps: it comes with something called Mango. It seems pretty generic; get something better. I got VLC from F-Droid, and it's great for local files. I also downloaded Amazon Music from the Amazon App Store, and it streams just fine. I've also had good luck with YouTube.com (not the App, not supported). I haven't tried any others, but I see Tidal us available on ApkPure; maybe I'll try it next. 4: Amplifier modules: I regularly switch between the stock module and an AMP8. The stock amplifier runs my Sennheiser HD1 headset for commuting, and the AMP8 runs my Grado 3000 headset at home. Both are excellent. June 2020 update: I'm still loving this. The AMP8 runs great, and I use it enough that I bought the dedicated 4.4mm cord for the Sennheiser HD800S headphones. I often switch between the Grados and Sennys from time to time. They both work great! The Amazon ecosystem has remained stable once I got past the initial login. It claims to play hir-es, and all displays indicate it is, but I just don't hear an improvement. To be fair, and never hear an improvement in hi-res music, so that's probably a limitation in my ears. The only issue I ran into was when I connected it to my stereo. OH MY GOD, THE HUM!!! I guess that's an issue with my stereo, because the hum stayed when I unplugged the iBasso. Jan 2021 update: I recently got Qobuz and Roon. Qobuz runs great. Roon, however, doesn't run well on the iBasso. I also tried hooking it up to my stereo again, it doesn't hum anymore.

This was going to be my end game DAP. Right off I discovered things that were going to be a problem. Google play will not run on it. It did have something else and I was willing to overlook it. The alt program did not have a version of USB Audio Pro. I was going to have to run my headphone amp with my old DAP. It had a version that worked with Tidal, so I could live with my old DAP getting the music off my server. Then Tidal started breaking up. Every few seconds it would click and stop for a second. I figured it was the USB Audio causing the problem. So I deleted everything, rebooted and went into Tidal. It was still breaking up. So, sadly I sent a note to the vendor and awaiting return approval. Next day. I decided to give it another try before returning it. After a full reboot the skipping is gone. So I'm keeping it. I'll keep working to get it to drive me headphone dac but I can live without it. However me excitment is starting to fade. This has a lot of features I have not got to work yet but i know they are in there somewhere. Perhaps an update will fix it. This will not gain it's full value until they fox the google problem or get more apps in their google play alt. After a few weeks I like it but the lack of Google and the lame replacement is showing. I found a program that will work for DLNA but is a demo. Sure as shot the full version is not included. Now a real problem that worries me. The best music is in mango mode. Once it locked up. The hard reset is to hold the power button for 10 seconds. That rebooted the system: right back into the locked up mango mode. I lucked out and got it to boot into the system by removing the SD card. Yesterday I put into mango mode. Today I changed my router and needed to update the wifi settings. The way you get out of mango mode is to press the power button and it will ask if you want to enter the android mode. Only this time it just said "see you" and shut off. I tried the remove the SD card trick but no go. I powered on and off a bunch of times hoping it would shake loose. I then tried holding all the buttons while powering on and held them for a while. Nothing happened but when I booted again it went into android mode. At this point I'm scared to put it into mango mode. I'm going to anyway because I'm still under the 30 day return. Taking off one more star. I put it back in mango mode and it is stuck there. I have no way of getting it into android mode that I can see. I can only hope an update will fix it or, once if ever, I get it back to android. Otherwise I'll have to return it. PS the only reset documented is to press the power button for 10 seconds. That is fine as a soft reset but this is in bad need of a hard reset.

My first DAP was a Zune, I loved it. Unfortunately, not too many others did. I graduated to a fiio x3, which sounded fantastic but was quite limited. Upgraded to the Onkyo X1 which was great, flawless as far as operation, good sounding. Loved the two card inputs. Unfortunately, the balanced jack crapped out, than the main. Sigh. Purchased a Fiio X7ii, but boy was it buggy! Returned first, then second just stopped playing through Amp. Returned it and grabbed this. Wow, the sound, space, and dead silent. Paired with Focal Elegia and Brainwavz B400 balanced. Thrilling!

Fantastic sound and easy to use! This is my first DAP and I'm sure I made the right choice. I was a bit timid, some of the reviews didn't give it good marks for ease-of-use but I found very easy to get around. I've downloaded about 200 high-resolution flac files on a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB memory card and I'm set. I did add the iBasso amp 8 which gives it a little more low-end and better sound stage. Many reviews say it's the best DAP under $1000 and I have to agree. Go ahead and buy one, you are in for a treat.

Native ALL DSD

Great sound and fast response for applications. I have a AK Kann and the sound is different but of a similar level but the UI is much more flexible. I useqobuz and tidal and both have offline downloads. It also has access to all the other apps I wanted to use. The only issue I have is that it eats through the battery very quickly. Depending on what I am doing it can be less than 6 hours battery life but this can also be a fair bit longer if you are just playing music through the inbuilt player. I am very happy with it overall.

このほどDX220「工場再生品」を購入し、10日ほど使用した感想です。これまでFiio X7（専らアンプモシュールAM3D）を愛用していました（イヤホンはJVC HA-FD02です）。 １ 購入品は、「新品」ではありませんが、外観、バッテリーの状態、本体操作性、SWに何らの問題もなく、FWも最新の状態でしたので、購入当初より快適に使用しています。使用感は、一言でいえば、Mango OSで得られる音質（音源はWAV 無損失）は、X7とは比較にならない（後戻り不可能な）程、優れていると思います。本機（Mango OS）は、音の定位・分離、「音響」空間のイメージングが非常に正確・豊穣であり、特筆に値するその「黒い背景」と相まって、音の生成から消え際までを「イベント」として知覚できるという感覚を与えてくれます。また、付属アンプモジュールの出力特性も満足いくものです。 ２ Android版のMango Playerおよび有償版UAPPとMango OSを、WAV音源（主にマーカス・ミラーのCDからのリッピング音源、無損失を使用）で聞き比べましたが、本機は、ストリーミングで利用する場合を除いて、AndroidモードではなくMango OSで再生してこそ、真価を発揮すると断言できます。Androidモードの音も質が悪いものではないのですが、Mango OSのそれと比べると平面的であり、定位感・分離が明らかに劣り、音響的に大きな差があります。 ３ 本機の発熱の問題ですが、確かに放熱が著しいです。しかし、このことは、アルミ筐体をヒートシンクとして効率的に利用していることの表れだと思います（半導体、「抵抗」の塊とも考えられるSocとデュアルESS9028proから発生する熱を恐らく効率的に代謝しているのでしょう）。 ４ 最新FWでは、非公式のアドオンを導入しなければできなかったと漏れ聞く、Google Playも、本機のデフォルト設定であるAPK Pureからインストールして利用できました。なお、ストリーミングはAmazon Music (Unlimited)を利用しています（これも快適です）。

良い音で解像度が高く、カチッとした音です。そうかと言って音は硬過ぎず、適度な緩さがあり、良い味付けです。 残念だったのは、本体が熱くなること。聞いてはいましたが、人肌以上でどこまで熱くなるのかと少し心配になるほど。しかし、使用時間と熱が逃げるように置くことで、緩和できます。 もう一つ残念なのは操作性。マンゴーだと一旦アルバムを選んで戻るとリストの初めに戻る。アルバム送りが早くて選ぶのに神経を使う。送る際にタッチして選択になってしまう。他にも少し驚く程の操作性の悪さ。 しかし、リーズナブルな価格でのこの音の良さのためと思えば、残念さも我慢できます。 バッテリーを大幅に改善してきたDX300が気になりますが。

Great DAP with excellent sound as long as you pair up with decent headphones. Battery life is not that good, but overall good value for money and upgradable with new amp modules

Started with the dx50. Then dx90. Sound brilliant but reading screen when in the sun impossible. Major improvements here in both sound and build quality.