Ok i reply myself with the solution.
Iāve found that this issue happens on Windows when i havenāt installed the official drivers in the first place. That was the problem! I realize that on a Mac and on a Samsung S20+ i donāt have the problem but on Windows only (trying with 2 different PC).
And thatās it. Xduoo Drivers for windows solved the case. It may be helpful if someone encounter the same issue.
Bought the basic, the original op-amp is garbage. Change the op amp, it will be 3x better the sound quality
Hey Iām sort of a novice on this but could you steer me to the proper op amps that work with the xduoo basic ? If you can post a amazon link that be amazing thank you.
Oh one more question to you or anyone else out there, on the product info thereās a diagram that shows the basic connected to ps4 thru usb c and fiber digital in. Question was why isnāt it shown using the usb DC in for power and instead shows the dac usb in connected to ps4 running off battery cuz I tried to connect it this way to my ps4 pro and I never got any usb data connection to establish so is this dac amp meant to be able to be used as a dac for ps4? Maybe someone can clarify what the proper setup is or settings ? Thanks yall
Burson v5i is a nice upgrade. Very smooth sounding. The stock op-amp is very grainy in comparison.
Make sure you get the dual so its both L & R channels in the 1 op amp.
Personally, I wouldnāt recommend the V5i. IMO theyāre popular only because theyāre from a name audiophile brand, not really because of their performance. The sound is a little bit bloated in the low end and the quality of that low end is not the best. In terms of the tech that they use, itās also overpriced because itās only an IC opamp with a cap and heatsink. Personally if you want to spend a premium on opamp, I would suggest a Sparkos SS3602 for a more neutral sound, OPA627BP for a more engaging and elevated low end, Muses 03 for a better sound stage, but a little bit rolled off treble and dark sounding, and an AD827SQ for a better imaging and a more neutral sound presentation. But these are based on the XD05 and XD05 plus, I donāt know how it will do with the basic.
Edit: Sorry I canāt help with your PS4 problem since I donāt have a ps4.
I had a similar experience as well, I strongly preferred the AD827SQ over the V5i and over the MUSES01/MUSES02, but this was all from op amp rolling with the XD-05 Plus.
To be fair, the V5i was still a big step up over the stock op amp!
EDIT: Adding link to the op amp I liked:
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Analog-Devices/AD827SQ?qs=%2FtpEQrCGXCwzB8F8R4nKuA%3D%3D
Yea I agree with that, I just feel like V5iās price is a little bit too high for what it offers.
Thanks for advice on the Burson I do agree itās to expensive at least for me it is right now, if anyone can link a compatible op amp from Amazon that works with the BASIC ID be grateful, for some reason Iām not having luck finding the correct part when I search amazon( I have gift card balance 
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One more try on the ps4 usb c dac questionā¦anyone have experience using this with ps4 ? I mean as of now it works just fine using the usb c plug into a wall wart for power and connecting digital in from my vizio tv. My question is with that configuration arenāt I still just using the TV or ps4 as a dac and just have a really expensive desk top amplifier currently ? Hereās the diagram Iām talking about . Anyone know if this device is meant to be used as a DAC as well with ps4 ? Thanksā¦
Whilst I donāt have experience of specifically what you asked, optical from your tv to the xd05 will be using the dac of the xd05 since its a digital signal to the dac rather than a line in signal to the amp of the xd05.
Ok that makes sense. So it im using usb c and spdif at same time and obviously I can only choose one input so spfif provides sound while usb doesnāt so yea guess case closed. Thanks for clarification:)
Can anyone please provide a amazon store link to any opamp that will be a upgrade over the xduoo BASICS stock opamp? I canāt find any on there bcuz itās a little confusing for me. Thanks for any help.
Iām waiting for my t60 argons to be finished and need to decide on an amp. I know Zeos raved about the xduoo xd-05 plus with argons and also mentioned that the Basic can drive them. Does anybody have any experience with the basic or plus paired with argons? Is there a huge difference between the two?
got my XD05 a couple days ago and my V5I todayā¦ heck yeah killer combo
Xduoo XD05 Basic (AK4490) Review: "This is not chi-fi, this is great engineering."
TL,DR: This is a big review of this big block of metal full of surprises. Tested with Sennheiser HD6XXās, Fostex T50RPās and Nad HP50 headphones. The XD05 is the perfect companion to enjoy detailed music on the go (macrodetails). And when you get home, you plug it straight into a better headphone amplifier, and it will show you all the little details (microdetails) hidden in its great AKM chipset implementation. Yes, this is also a great desktop DAC (I mean, itās as big as one too). It will also take bitperfect audio and switch Bitrate/Khz when a change is detected, via USB (my Android phone) or via coax. This is ālow-cost hi-fiā paradise, really. Itās a bit like the Fiio BTR5 for people who need power on the go. Definitely a great valueā¦ Even at full price.
If you buy this new, youāll probably get the ESS version. But the original āXD05 Basicā had the AK4490 chip. I bought mine used, and got an AK4490. I honestly hoped my XD05 was the version with an ESS chipset (inexpensive implementations of these tend to have a prevalence for treble), because my desktop DAC is an SMSL Sanskrit 10th, with a prevalence for bass and low-mids (which is, I believe, an AK4493) and I wanted a change. Well, I got my XD05, played some songs, and I actually thought it was an ESS chipsetā¦ Until I opened it and realized it was an AK4490 inside. Implementation is everything, and itās a well-implemented AKM chipset. A surprise at this price point. Neutral, clear, detailed, with sufficient treble, whether portable or not (plugged in an external headphone amplifier or not). Some cheap ā read: bad ā AKM implementations can sound muddy: Definitely not this one. Good.
Details:
The XD05 Basic is damn fast. i.e.: Fast, loud details are perceptible and never lost in āmudā, one detail never covers another because it happened too rapidly before or after. Fair warning, this is not a portable ādetail monsterā. But, like, āwhatās the pointā : Youāre probably always surrounded by noise. You hear a lot of good things with the XD05 Basic at medium to high volumes. Drums hit hard. Voices sound natural, and quite believable actually. Loud voices, loud guitars, loud instruments are all full of details. And I donāt even know the name of the thing, or what it is made of, but in songs with (real) drums, I can clearly hear if the āround puckā hitting the bass drum is made of ārubberā, or if thereās a bit (or a ton) of cloth over it, or not. Clearly. Simply put, the āamount of times Iāve told myself it sounds life-like to price ratioā with this ~150$ thing is incredible. Thanks to the XD05, I think I now know the definition of āmacrodetailsā (versus subtle, i.e., āmicroā details). In the worst case scenario (likeā¦ treble-y T50RP planars) these āmacrodetailsā can be a problem, though. Headbang responsibly, enjoy macrodetails with moderation.
Technicalities, gain and powah ā Level 3 gain is useless/broken:
More importantly, the headphone out got a fair amount of soundstage, naturalness, instrument separation and depth ā even with my T50RPās, which some people say often sound āmechanicalā and ālifelessā. Not here. In terms of naturalness and macrodetails, the XD05 Basic can even make my T50RPās sound a bit like my Sennheiser HD6XXās, something that 100$ desktop amplifiers (JDS Atom, Liquid Spark) never did. Impressive stuff.
This headphone out is also 500mW of power @ 32 ohms, so you can go anywhere and rock your planars with it ā and thatās what I do. This is a portable 500mW per channel metal brick that will hit your ears like a metal brick if you ask for it. On gain level 3 itās a bit too much, though. The three gain levels are like, ā4/10, 8/10, and 11/10ā. Gain level 3 is overdone, max gain and half volume with T50RPās is painful and I believe I even hear distortion sometimes. Itās just too much. On top of that, thereās channel imbalance unless the volume is high, sometimes too high. So the gain stays at level 2 on mine, and smooth music sounds smooth and energetic music sounds energetic, with no trace of distortion or channel imbalance whatsoever.
The DAC part: āAnd oh, you wanted more subtle details? Surprise: the DACās got itā.
I also use the XD05 Basic as a ādesktop dacā, using the USB input and the 3.5mm coaxial input ā yes this exists and yes adapters exist ā and the 3.5mm output, which is a āline outā, i.e.: DAC mode, no volume control, straight to my Aune X7S (a 300$ Class A desktop headphone amp). Another surprise: This DAC can be more detailed than my SMSL Sanskrit 10th desktop DAC. The Sanskrit 10th is a great DAC. Iāve enjoyed, discovered, and re-discovered hours and hours of music with it. Itās hard to play anything with this DAC and āhurt your earsā. But itās ātoo smooth to be life-likeā. Thereās too much bass and mids in female voices, for example. So, guess what, I exchanged it with my XD05. The XD05 Basic is now also my preferred desktop DAC. (Funnily enough, the XD05 Basic is an AK4490 chipset and the Sanskrit 10th is an AK4493. Did I tell you āimplementation is everythingā ?)
An odd quirk is, to activate the 3.5mm āline outā (i.e.: always 100% volume output, to use the XD05 as a desktop DAC), you need to turn on the XD05ā¦ by turning the volume knob up. Which means youāll also be able to power a second pair of headphones via the unitās headphone out at the same time. Well, why not. Makes A/B-ing stuff easier. Or bring a friend. 
Bluetooth part: LDAC is great, but may be unreliable.
Yes, I also got the little bluetooth module. Play, pause, next track and last track buttons on it are useful. It works greatā¦ when LDAC works. I remember having it set to 990kbps (24bit/96khz and forced āhighest qualityā), and it still managed to add a bass boost and compress my 16bit/44.1khz/320kbps (or less!) mp3ās, making it a night-and-day difference when I removed the module and used the āUSB INā instead. Oh well, maybe itās my phone, too (ā¦even if it said LDAC in the Bluetooth infos on my phone, and the ābluetooth moduleā light was white, which also means LDAC data is received). Or maybe I got one of the 100 Android or USB Audio Player Pro config options wrong that time. Anyways, good luck. (By the way, if LDAC changes from 990kbps to something else, youāll hear a little, very subtle āpopā.)
Iām not done: You can also switch opamps. And it makes a HUGE difference.
I also bought this XD05 Basic used, with a Burson v5i opamp in itā¦ which I promptly uninstalled. There were ācracks and popsā between songs, and sometimes when turning the volume up/down. Something was wrong. And the cracks and pops between songs even happened via the 3.5mm line out. I also felt like I was drowning in mids, which, among (a ton of) other things, completely killed the soundstage. Maybe the Burson v5i could be good for the 1 watt per channel XD05 Plus/Balanced/etc., but was too much for the XD05 Basic, which is half the power? I donāt know. Anyways, all this review, all the technicalities, all the problems with the gain mentioned in this review, it was all with the XD05 and a JRC 5532DD opamp in it (the stock one, I guess).
I also tried a TI NE5532P opampā¦ It smoothens everything, to the point of making the XD05 āboringā. The bit I said about being able to know what kind of āround puckā was hitting the bass drum? Iāve just learned itās 100% because of this JRC opamp acting kind of like a āpeakyā bass boost (at 75hz-100hz?). So, whatever Xduoo did, the XD05 responds very well to āopamp rollingā. Another surprise. Yup, the XD05 is not āchi-fiā. This is great engineering.
Battery (batteries) life(s).
Well, donāt forget to charge your phone. And donāt forget to charge your XD05 Basicā¦ and donāt forget to charge the bluetooth module, too. Still:
So if youāre worried about battery lifeā¦ Your smartphone battery will surely die first, after more than 8 hours of music playing.
Small downsides:
-Under the sun, you canāt see anything on this screen. Activate the bluetooth āmoduleā, youāll see the blue light. Power the XD05 on, with a bit of luck youāll see the āorangeā ring around the volume knob. But the screen basically just looks like a mirror. If you rely on it, just crank the volume, find the right input with the switch and wait for the āhappy jumpscareā to confirm you still have battery.
-It will never shut down automatically after X minutes of (nothing) playing. I forgot it on in a room and the battery just drained. So, donāt forget to turn it off!
So, for all these reasons, I repeat: This thing is ālow-cost hi-fiā paradise, really. Itās a bit like the Fiio BTR5 for people who need power on the go. Definitely a great value, even at full price. The XD05 is not chi-fi. This is great engineering. Iāll watch Xduooās stuff more closely from now on. Iāll probably buy another XD05 Basic (the ESS version) to compare with this AKM chipset version. No, this is not an āendgameā DAC/amp combo. But for 150$? This is great stuff.
if you didnāt check there could be a firmware update available, I know people used to talk about not being able to use high gain in certain situations but I havenāt had issues even after swapping to a Burson V5I OP AMP which even more people said made high gain not work
Love this unit. For the price, if you donāt mind a bit of a brick I donāt think anyone else combines this level of power, build and battery, single-ended too! Great pot and switches. Could easily be a desktop combo unit for a lot of folks, with the added flexibility of battery and BT. When folks ask about budget stacks and donāt have big power demands - I think this is a super-smart contender. This offers plenty for most planar and 300 ohm headphones. Adore that it is 1/4" out. That 1/2 watt goes a long way.
Gripes, the BT module isnāt a stupendous integration. I wish you could charge both units simultaneously from the BT module port. Still have no idea how to assess its battery on its own. Bass boost is typically a bit too rich and high-reaching of a shelf for my ears.
Wanted this for a long time and finally grabbed one on one of the rip-roaring Linsoul deals prior to this current one. Most people will benefit from the build/flexibility here than require the extra power of a K5 Pro for instance.
Yeah. This is going in the The āToo good for the priceā list.
Bass boost is good with HD6XXās, for example. But I agree, it could be a few dB less. With older recordings itās great, or with any calm, smooth, or āsoft rockā music. But with newer recordings where everything got more bass, sometimes itās like Iām half-ashamed to keep it on and Iām half-ashamed to keep it off. 
6 months later: Iām still using it as a desktop DAC. Still bringing it everywhere when I leave the house for more than one day. Still loving it. Still recommending it. Especially because you can easily buy it used for ~100$ USD. Donāt forget you only need to plug the LDAC moduleās āCoaxialā plug, allowing you to use the āline outā to speakers, changing it into a desktop bluetooth DAC.
Incredible value. Poor manās iFi Gryphon. 
Hi everyone. New to the forum. I bought an XD05 Basic (ESS version) a few weeks ago, and it was a quantum leap forward in headphone listening. However, Iām running into a little āissueā and I am wondering if Iām going mad, or that some other XD05 Basic owners have a solution.
When playing music from my Sansung A14 phone using UAPP the XD05 plays bit perfect (as fas as I can tell): 44k files play at 44, 48k at 48 etc. I couod have sworn that the XD05 always played in 48k when using foobar or poweramp, which is the default sampling frequency for Android. But recently, it seems, it plays everything at 192kHz with any app, except UAPP. So I have this situation where music up upsampled from 44 to 48, and then to 192, apparently. It seems very odd. I tried all kind of suggestions found on the internet and even asked ChatGPT for solutions, but none of these work. I used removed poweramp and UAPP and cleared all data, but none of this helped. I have a gut feeling that one of these apps installed something into the Android sound stack, and now Iām stuck.
Anyone any suggestions as to why this happens, and how I could solve it?
