iBasso DX340 Titanium Limited Edition Portable Music Player Launches with Dual Batteries and Modular Amplifier
By HiFi Editorial17 February 2026
Key Highlights
iBasso DX340 debuts as a flagship digital audio player, including a Titanium Limited Edition of just 300 CNC-machined units for collectors.
Dual-OS design lets users switch between music-focused Mango OS and full Android 13, enabling both pure playback and streaming service access.
Modular amplifier system allows swapping the stock AMP15 via two screws; included module delivers 2150 mW per channel at 32 ohms.
Beyond the headline features, the DX340 is interesting for how deliberately iBasso separates subsystems that are usually intertwined in Android-based players. The choice of an FPGA-centric conversion stage hints at a preference for deterministic signal handling over off‑the‑shelf DAC voicing, allowing clocking, filtering, and oversampling behavior to be defined in code rather than fixed silicon. Paired with fully isolated power domains, this architecture is clearly aimed at minimizing digital noise injection into the analog path—an approach more common in desktop gear than in portable players. Some sources frame this as a pursuit of “black background,” while others emphasize transient precision and microdynamic stability; in practice, both interpretations stem from the same engineering decision to treat the DAP less like a smartphone and more like a scaled-down component stack.
