Windows 11 can be buggy.
Plug into the same USB port?
I am so disappointed that Sonata HD Pro is literally gone now. Replaced by random ESS stuff.
Slowly we can see Meizu Hifi has been replaced by some random 'mblu' DAC that uses a dubious CX chip. Why are these people not aware of the importance of quality? Of the three dongles which are both measured on ASR, inexpensive and famous, two are more or less gone. Maybe you can still get a Meizu but its price ain't great. All I can now recommend are Apple dongles...
Sure there are plenty of dongles using CS43131 or CS43198, but we're past the age where buyers can be certain what chips the random dongles are using. We're also past the age when dongles of high quality could be bought for low prices.
I don't think long-selling products should be phased out. Worse is the use of 'HD Pro' naming on products completely unrelated to it, and we can see here at least one person has made a mistake - been deceived by this naming.
Because of this, I’m taking off SHD Pro and Meizu from my signature; I am thoroughly convinced that DSD support, 2 Vrms output and other such features of CS43131 are not so different (in terms of improvement) from your common Apple CS46L06 which has arguably the best ADC on the dongle market.