XDUOO® X3 Mini HI-FI Music Player JZ4760B Chip 24bit/192khz HD format Audio Player Lossless Music Player Silver Supports MP3 WMA APE FLAC WAV DSD Audio Formats

This looks and feels great. I have the silver one, nice weight and isn't flimsy. Has separate headphone out and line out which is great and handy. SOUND quality is fantastic. I had the Fiio X1 which is also a great little entry level DAP, but this blows it out the water. It makes the Fiio X1 sound congested and lacking in detail. The X3 has better bass, better separation of instruments and vocals, and very good with micro detailing. Bass - Punchy and accurate. Goes deep when required. The control is great, sometimes you can hear the bass guitar being plucked. Mids - Very detailed and no bass bloat. Highs - Sound accurate, sometimes can be a little artificial depending on the song. No sibilance, but again this depends on the song. Some songs will be sibilant regardless of source or even headphones. Wide soundstage, everything sits nice. Great positioning of instruments across the soundstage. What i like most is there is some air around instruments and vocals making everything sound detailed and musical. Does not mean songs are thin, they have nice body. This is an upgrade to the Fiio X1 in every way, even though it is cheaper! I've heard it is even better than the Fiio X3 which is double the price. Important - The user interface is very basic, and does take getting used to. Can be a bit difficult to see in direct sunlight. It has no equalizer, it relies on it's 6db Gain option. It gives it a nice neutral signature and I've not once thought I needed to equalize the sound. They have put a lot into it making it accurate to the artist's original presentation. Some people think neutral means flat, but this is still very musical. A bonus for me is it helped power my Sony MDR100AAP headphones and brought out their full potential. The bass control is amazing, as is the micro details i.e. those little things like singers breathing, guitars being plucked, music hidden in the background. Picks up much more than my Fiio X1 EVER did.

I wanted to pick up a cheap, high capacity player that plays FLAC files and was portable enough to take out running. I own a Creative Zen X-Fi and a Fiio X3 2nd Gen. Positives: - Well, the sound is very good; on a par with the Fiio and better than the Zen which sounds overdriven to my ears. The XDUOO provides a relaxed, easy listening experience that doesn't tire the listener. - The Operating System is very fast... the SD cards are selected without delay and no lag when you navigate. - Solid build quality. There is a lock button which seems to be a little loose but I can forgive this. - 2 SD Slots: great feature if like me you have loads of FLAC files. Negatives: - Unfortunately, if you want to navigate through artists and albums, you need to load your files up within with folders as the player won't allow you to select an album or artist if you just load all your music as individual files. This is OK for me, but I did need to clear my SD card after realising it wouldn't allow me to play albums when I loaded a bunch of FLAC files directly to the root directory. So if, like me, your music is in a folder for each artist and subfolders for albums, then just load them up like that and at least you have something approximating a usable interface. - The display is very hard to see when outdoors, and I'm not even talking about bright sunlight here. - The device doesn't allow you to queue your next album. This can be annoying if I'm out on a long run. - Gapless Playback isn't a feature which is a shame. I have noticed the odd clipping/ popping at the start of songs, but that could be down to the absence of gapless playback. Overall, this is a great DAP for the price. I can forgive the really basic UI 'cause what it does, it does perfectly well and the main thing is that it sounds great. Recommended.

Would like to add my review as I purchased the player a week ago. I'm not a hardcore audiophile so I have no technical audio knowledge at all concerning depth, space, fidelity, etc. Just a person who's into listening music on his way to work. I’m used to listening music on my iPhone but I absolutely abhor iTunes and syncing. I wanted to just drag and drop my music so was debating between Xduoo X3, Fiio X1, Sony NWZA-15A and Sandisk clip. After a few online research, I decided the Xduoo X3 was the best compromise in price/quality. Besides Sony has its own syncing software and proprietary charging cable. Fiio was a little bit more expensive and the Sandisk clip doesn’t support 128gb micro SD cards. After listening a few albums on my X3, I can say it sounds pretty good but I only have my phone to compare it with. I love the dual micro SD card slots expandability as you could potentially have +256Gb of storage space and probably more when higher density cards are released. My two biggest gripes are the lack of bluetooth and screen brightness is very weak when outside in full sun. For audiophiles bluetooth is usually a no-go since quality suffers but for convenience it’s pretty cheap to install bluetooth features on any devices these days. So overall it can be a good repository for all your music collection because of the huge storage potential but don’t expect great ergonomics on the player. It’s a mixed bag for me, I’ll probably listen with it until something better comes along. Here are my Pros and Cons: Pros: - Dual micro SD slot supporting up to 128Gb - Good sound quality - Most audio format supported including lossless - Small and lightweight - Good build quality Cons: - Unintuitive navigating buttons - Menus are very basic - Screen very dim (almost invisible) in sunlight - Lack of bluetooth connection - only 8hrs battery life - Very slow delivery by seller (2 weeks minimum from China). NB. You can now install Rockbox to replace the firmware which offers better UI but I haven’t done so yet.

The player arrived with the screen all scratched. As I was ordering from abroad and returning would be a mission, and since the damage was all cosmetic (or so I thought), I decided to keep it. But then the hardware issues started kreeping up on me. First the heat issue appeared. If the player was playing for longer than 2 hours it would get very hot. And when I say very, I mean VERY hot. Then it started turning off and refusing to turn back on. I worked out that a reset would sort it out. And then reset stoped working. To be more specific, you know that light pressure you feel when resetting a device through a pinhole? The one that feels like a trip switch? All of a sudden it was gone and there was nothing to press. So the player will just not turn on. I must have gotten one of the dreaded counterfit devices on amazon, beacause if that's an original I doubt anyone would have left any positive reviews. But if it is indeed an original, please stop selling it now. The quality of the product is laughable at best, depressing at worst. £80 down the drain... XDUOO® X3 Mini HI-FI Music Player JZ4760B Chip 24bit/192khz HD format Audio Player Lossless Music Player Silver Supports MP3 WMA APE FLAC WAV DSD Audio Formats

battery life is crap lasts about 4 hours on a full charge apart from that nice well made player with great sound best feature is line out plug it straight into your hi fi sounds great on wav good headphones needed try project extreme sx550 in ear headphones bargain at 29 pound

I love this player; to find a MP3 player to hold 160gb or over is pretty hard these days, I'll compare this to the iPod classic, what saddly you can't buy anymore. It can hold more gd, up to 256gb. The 128gb sd cards; you can find on eBay for £6 each. Loading music is so easy, simple drag and drop or sync Windows media player. ( I've got all my itunes in here as well) It's a lot cheaper and I think it's better quality. I've had a lot of problems with the ipods, this has had no problems and the outside looks like it's well made. It's a lot better sound quality, it includes a line out Jack and a headphone jack. Negatives It's very basic, it's a basic digital screen, it dosnt have the options the iPod has; such as, repeat, shuffle etc. It will be good if you could buy a case for it, I keep mine in a little pouch. I'm not sure if it's the players fault or it's the files, I find one in 10 albums the track names don't appear, but when it's on, playing now they show up, but it dosnt bother me. Someone has put the battery life is only 4hr, but I'm sure it lasts longer. Looking at it, you'll think it was made by Sony

First of all , what this is.... Its a lovely piece of anodized aluminium that feels weighty in the hand. It is a great player with a high quality DAC that doesnt colour the music at all really. It has a great soundstage be in playing through headphones or plugged into you hi fi. There is a very very simple UI which lacks any bells and whistles but is stable and simple to use. If you want ipod functionality, buy an ipod. This is a method of getting very high quality audio for not much money , and if you are flush, you can stick two 128gb cards in it...I went for the cheaper option initially of two 64gb cards for a tenner each. Dont let the fact that it is chinese designed and built bother you. The chinese have come on leaps and bounds in this area. I own a couple of chinese chip amps and DACS. The equal or surpass any of the major players. This for the price is unbeatable, it not only makes FLAC files sounds incredible, I have never heard my mp3 files sound so goo.

Decided to try something different after my disappointments with the recent Sansa stuff (The Clip & Jam etc are just too small and fiddly and not well made). Have always had music on the go as a separate device, first thing to note is its 2 micro SD slots; I'd never buy a player with fixed internal memory only, so two micro SD slots instead of the usual one is great. The player is solid, feels like a small smooth slab, and has nicely spaced physical buttons for the main controls, the kind of thing I appreciate as I can reach into my pocket and skip/restart a track, adjust volume, pause without having to take the unit out. Sound quality is very good; you get no headphones with the unit which is unusual, but then again I never use the supplied headphones with any device I've bought, always used my Sony ones. I would give this unit 5 stars but I knock off a star for a) its battery life, which is not as good as most players I've had and b) it would have been nice to have supplied a carry case or some kind of belt clip you could attach, which is something again I would have appreciated. The packaging also says the display is viewable in any lighting scenario - not true, as any kind of glare renders it almost invisible. One other aspect about the battery is that it looks as if it can be replaced. Looking inside reveals it is a rectangular (73mm x 37mm x 5mm) 3.7v 2000mAh battery, secured inside the rear cover and attached to the main PCB with a 2-pin connector. The battery is fitted with overcharge protection on one end (which accounts for 6mm of the length) and I have found a few on ebay for GPS units, but they are only 1250mAh. So options may be limited. As for the interface, it is a bit basic, however I decided to download and install the Rockbox firmware you can get, as mentioned by other reviewers. This does open up the unit for much more customisation, such as equalisers, bass, treble and hosts of other things. One word of information though; the Rockbox firmware can only read media that is formatted to FAT32 and not ExFAT as some of the newer Micro SD cards of 64gb and above are formatted (the original firmware has no issues with this). If you buy a new 64gb+ card, chances are it will be ExFAT formatted; you will have to format it via a PC using a third party piece of software (free utilities which can be found on the web) as newer versions of Windows don't support FAT32 formatting anymore. I don't know if the Rockbox firmware has a format option, but if the card was ExFAT it wouldn't see it anyway! All in all, a very nice player.

Ho scelto questo X3 in sostituzione di un lettore di altra marca, molto ben suonante, ma arrivato con la batteria difettosa. Utilizzo vari prodotti della fiio ed ero molto curioso di provare questo lettore vista anche la comodità di una doppia scheda microSd e di una uscita dedicata per amplificazione esterna di immediato utilizzo. Il lettore è molto ben costruito e suona molto bene. Usato con una cuffia Grado 80e collegata direttamente al lettore e con una Grado 325e collegata ad un ampli per cuffia non ho rilevato differenze con il Fiio X1 testato nelle stesse condizioni e brani musicali tutti in formato FLAC 16/44. Questo Xduoo X3 è sicuramente consigliabile ma, chi legge, tenga presente che ogni orecchio è diverso in funzione dell'età e dello stress causato dalla rumorosità del luogo di residenza. L'assenza di un equalizzatore è insignificante mentre la praticità dei comandi (essenziali, solidi ed immediati) è forse un vantaggio rispetto al Fiio X1 del quale non digerisco molto il selettore ruotante anche se sicuramente più rapido nella risposta.

Franchement, j'ai cherché, cherché et encore cherché un baladeur audiophile de qualité correspondant à mes moyens. J'ai hésité, parcouru de longs forums et vu les commentaires élogieux sur cet appareil, je me suis finalement lancé. Et le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est que je ne suis aucunement déçu. Certes l'interface d'utilisation est minimaliste, la mise à jour Dropbox indispensable (lire les commentaires qui expliquent comment l'installer), certes j'ai dû convertir ma bibliothèque en FLAC pour un rendu optimal et investir dans un casque Xiaomi Hifi, mais désormais je me déplace avec une vraie chaîne hifi dans les oreilles! La qualité du son est tout simplement bluffante, la capacité de stockage avec les 2 cartes sd de 128 go (non fournies) impressionnante. Un vrai petit ordinateur hifi facile à emporter avec vous chaque jour... Je crois qu'il existe des modèles plus récents dans cette gamme comme le Xduo x10, mais franchement si vous cherchez à vous faire plaisir ou à faire plaisir, cet appareil contentera certainement tous ceux et celles qui exigent tout simplement du bon son!

.. Así me parece este Xduoo X3, un repro muy pequeño para las dimensiones que tienen otros, y que está llamado a ser de "culto". - Su tamaño: pequeño. Manejable con una sola mano. Aunque el uso de los botones despista en un principio, se acostumbra uno pronto. No es traumático. - Buena construcción, se siente muy sólido. Aspecto y tacto robusto y muy grato. - Memoria kilométrica. Yo le tengo puestas dos microSD de 128 Gb y va como la seda. - El sistema de Menú es minimalista: tiene todo lo necesario y punto. La navegación es por carpetas. Nada superfluo. La pantalla también ha sido echa con esa filosofía: Tipo Oled donde se ve lo necesario. Muy suave su vista en la oscuridad. Venía con el último software. - Sonido muy bueno para su precio. El DAC Cirrus Logic que lleva hace muy bien su trabajo. Lo uso con unos 1More Triple Driver y es una maravilla lo bien que suena eso !. - Duración de la batería muy buena. Con Mp3 320 Kbp debe andar alrededor de 10 h. - Por supuesto que los amantes de oír música y estar haciendo mil cosas a la vez ... esto no les sirve (que se compren algo con el dichoso android !). Este cacharro está pensado para la música y punto. Y en eso es fantástico. ¿ Conclusión ? .... Un pequeño objeto de culto.

Essendo un neofita alla ricerca di un player Hi-Res, ho acquistato l'X3 dopo averne letto le recensioni entusiaste in rete, che non posso che confermare. Ciò che stupisce di questo piccolo gioiellino è la qualità del suono e la potenza, in grado di pilotare egregiamente anche cuffie chiuse, senza la necessità di essere abbinato ad un DAC. Grande musicalità, suono ampio e cristallino, bassi profondi ma non invasivi, ottimo dettaglio della scena. Se da un lato l'X3 conferma le aspettative in merito alla qualità sonora, purtroppo conferma anche i difetti a livello di gestione software e hardware. Qualità costruttiva del case ottima, ma schermo illeggibile se esposto alla piena luce del sole; gestione cartelle e brani difficoltosa e con poche opzioni, qualche blocco saltuario che costringe al reset. Ho installato Rockbox, ma ho riscontrato un peggioramento della qualità di riproduzione (tuttavia in rete sono disponibili le indicazioni per restituire all'X3 il sound originale). Considerato che prediligo la qualità di riproduzione rispetto la comodità di impiego, ho preferito usare l'X3 con il firmware originale (versione 1.1), operazione peraltro piuttosto semplice poiché Rockbox è installato in dual-boot. Con mio rammarico ho restituito il player, poiché a parte i difetti su cui ero pur disposto a sorvolare, non ho invece tollerato la scarsa durata della batteria, 5 ore contro le 8 previste, che credo fosse dovuta a un malfunzionamento della stessa (leggendo in rete, la durata dei vari utenti è confermata pari alle 8 ore dichiarate, se non di più). In sostituzione dell'X3 ho acquistato il Sony NW A35. A conferma della qualità di riproduzione del Xduoo, il cui suono arioso nulla ha a che vedere con quello asfittico del Sony, il confronto con quest'ultimo è impietoso, soprattutto se si pensa che l'X3 costa la metà del NW A 35. Supposto che talune delle carenze riscontrate siano dei difetti di fabbrica, considerata l'ottima resa audio, la buona qualità costruttiva e il rapporto costo/qualità, l'X3 è un ottimo player che al prezzo attuale consente di avvicinarsi ad un ascolto HiRes senza affrontare spese troppo impegnative.

Feliz con la compra, suena muy bien, con buena capacidad (uso un microSD de 128GB). Bien hecho con un look muy retro. La parte mala del retro, es que no se ve nada a plena luz. A mi me da igual porque no lo uso mucho fuera. Buena potencia para auricularesulares, incluso los que son difíciles de mover. Tengo unos AKG Q701 (que son diciles) y puedes ponerlos a buen volumen. El software es un poco básico, pero con Rockbox (otro software) da muchos más opciones y es más rápido. Si lo arrancas con el cierre puesto, arranca el software original aunque tienes metido Rockbox en el microSD. Si quitas el "lock" y vuelvas a arrancar, entonces se vuelve a arrancar el Rockbox de nuevo. Creo que por el precio y el hecho que tiene dos microSDs, no hay otro player de HD audio mejor por este dinero.