I don't have prior experience of individual DAC, but after pairing IBASSO DC05, with my smartphone and Audio Technica M40, i noticed significant Improvement in overall audio, even seems it unlocked some more frequencies and i am able to hear some more instruments in same songs i was listening earlier, dac is quite compact to carry, thanks headphonezone to bring such good products.

Yesterday got my Ibasso DC05. listened whole day plugging those.

Noticed few things:
Performance is better in PC, just plug in play. Synergy, vocals, thumping bass everything is there, very much enjoyable.

Playing DSD is a hassle in windows, can't get foobar2000 working(any suggestions or tutorial to do it properly will be helpful), anyway installed JRiver media center(only 30 days trial after paid), works flawlessly and was able to play native DSD (some test files and 1,2 songs found on internet), FLACs (possible with most players though) easily. didn't find any noticable difference with the pair of devices I have.

But with phone things are different, first thing for most streaming apps don't use the external DAC. For my smartphone I found except loudness there's nothing to notice in sound quality unless I have local FLACs and using HIBY music player, otherwise that I found streaming apps are not using the DAC, the synergy, sound signature was not there at all while using with phone. Phones equaliser, volume adjustment, adjust sounds to earphone... options are working with DAC plugged in, which should not work with DAC in the first place, so thinking that phones DAC is processing the audio and just bypassing it (a wild guess, because sound signature is literally same to my phone just a bit louder).

Power usage wise didn't find any problems, not so power hungry.

Sound signature is mostly neutral and a bit forward I would say (headphones which I have is nowhere accurate sounding, but enjoyable- OneOdio Pro50's ), bass is tight, with some bass heavy headphones it can rumble your ears, and when the time of high frequencies came they shines, the sparkle is enjoyable not painful at all, Laal ishq by Arijit , is soo soo enjoyable.

bought it from Headphone Zone, and thanks to them for delivering these in two days (i live in a remote area).

Devices- Redmi note 10 PM, ibasso DC05, OneOdio pro50's.

4th picture: controls which I talked about above.

Something to add-on, and found while extensive use is that it heats up more while using with phone rather than PC, and suggest to use it with PC to bring the most out of it. And yes it can make a difference in your normal earphones/headphones too.

Ibasso 5 + Maze Rai Solo + LG G8X... Whatta perfect combo when u play WAVs, that I can Feel in Recording Studio.

Kudos to HeadphoneZone🎧

This is the first dac adapter I have bought in my entire life, it is my pleasure to say that it is one of my best purchases till date, the amplification is just bang on, gives a lot of juice to my phone's audio, I am using it with oneplus 6 smartphone, it has drastically improved the audio quality which I really needed to improve cause evryone knows oneplus audio is not that good infact any smartphone's audio is not that great. The last thing is the build quality is just great cause offcourse its casing is metal and the type c wire is fucking great.I just love this product and carry it with me all the time.

Thank you Headphone zone for this awesome product.
Looking forward to do more business in the future with you guys.

I've been searching for a portable DAC dongle for my Oppo Reno 2F for some time, because I have always felt that my phone's inbuilt DAC is nothing but shit, since, I mostly listen on my PC using Topping E30+ Edifier R1280T speaker, the difference in sound quality when listening on my phone is most noticeable & unacceptable to me. I didn't have much option due to budget constraints. I selected Shanling UA2 primarily based on the reviews on HPZ; but later I changed my mind and shifted to iBasso DC05 due to it's dual DAC implementation & very good reviews on online forums & I thank myself for my wise decision. I have paired it with my recently bought Moondrop Chu & the outcome is phenomenal. Yes, 'PHENOMENAL' is the right word compared to phone's internal audio. Each & every instruments sound clean & seperate from each other, it gives you a feel of being present right in the concert hall & the performances are going on in front of you. Vocals are little bit forward, bass is very good and punchy and it compensates for the lack Chu has, thus making it a perfect pair with Chu. Treble is good but not ear piercing. I would advise you to use iBasso UAC app for fine tuning volume alongside phone volume button. Many many thanks goes to the HPZ team for bringing this marvellous product to their store and timely delivery. My search for Desktop audio solution had long been ended with the purchase of Topping E30 (from HPZ) and now the hunt for portable audio solution also meets it's end happily. Or does it? Who knows! 😉

Performance with my Philips SHP 9500 is incredible. Ibasso is not well optimised for Android. It performs a bit better in laptop. Did not bring much difference in my KZ IEMs.

I knew ibasso for many years as I have been a user of their DX90 DAP (their flagship DAP model at that time and a phenomenal audio player which I still love to use every day. Ibasso was not well known those days). I bought DC05 DAC for my LG wing phone. I am glad that I could find this product in headphonezone site. It's plug n play in Android and you can listen to music, watch YouTube etc. You may install ibasso UAC app to control hardware volume directly. If you have high quality music files and want to utilise true potential of this DAC, then I recommend you to buy and install USB audio player pro app, which bypasses Android's layer to avoid those down/up sampling issues. I use audio technica ath-e70 and ath-im70 IEMs. I am impressed with sound quality. Please note that this DAC gets hot during use, but you need not have to worry. Overall, I am glad that audiophile grade products are being sold and encouraged in India and it's lot easier to buy.

Regards,

LN Reddy