Cayin i5 Lossless Android DAP with AKM4490 DAC supporting 32/384 PCM + 64/128 DSD

Someone let the cat out of the bag

http://erji.net/read.php?tid=1906651

Never be the same again.



23 April 2016
New Product Announcement
Jointly presented by Cayin and Hiby Music

482 days round the clock team works
A complete reengineering of hardware and software
A different pleasing sound
A different texture
A different sense
All new operations and control
Bring you a different class of surprised.

Here it comes
Jointly developed by Cayin and Hiby Music
i5 Lossless Portable Digital Audio Player

Time: 23 April 2016, 13:30
Venue: Ritan International Hotel (Beijing)
http://www.ritan-intlhotel.com/index_en.asp
Stay Tuned

Can I make a suggestion that the OP adjust the thread title to something more effective, it's very short, doesn't stand out or explain anything about the player. It's the first thing people will see.

As an example see here.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/782912/xduoo-x3-dsd-24bit-192khz-cs4398-chip-lossless-music-player#post_11963872
See

Oh yeah, and a leather case!!!
 

 
Looking good!
 

 
 
Not a bit surprised about Hiby and Hiby Music collaboration, and hopefully this means a more mature i5 fw since majority of bugs were ironed out in X7  

What can we expect sound-wise compared to the Cayin N6?

peareye said:

  What can we expect sound-wise compared to the Cayin N6?

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i5 should be Android version of N5 with an improved amp section, minus balanced output, and with addition to BT wireless, Wifi streaming, and full touch screen interface, and it should utilize Hiby Music drivers to bypass Android SRC (sample rate conversion) limitation.
 
N6 is still considered to be a flagship, but seems that N5 been getting all the latest attention.  With i5 around a corner, introduction in a few weeks, I'm afraid it will take a spotlight away from N5.  Just a pure speculation, but I have a feeling aging N6 will be replaced with something like i6 or i7 moving forward.  Natural evolution

Saying it now. achilles heel will be the battery life.  Betting the average will be around 9 hours or so.  If it isn't I'll tip my hat to them.

Battery life has never gotten to 9 hours on the N6 for me...I'll wait for the next step up from the N6.

h20fidelity said:

Can I make a suggestion that the OP adjust the thread title to something more effective, it's very short, doesn't stand out or explain anything about the player. It's the first thing people will see.

As an example see here.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/782912/xduoo-x3-dsd-24bit-192khz-cs4398-chip-lossless-music-player#post_11963872
See

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Good suggestion H20. Changed.
 
 

andykong said:

Someone let the cat out of the bag

http://erji.net/read.php?tid=1906651

Never be the same again.



23 April 2016
New Product Announcement
Jointly presented by Cayin and Hiby Music

482 days round the clock team works
A complete reengineering of hardware and software
A different pleasing sound
A different texture
A different sense
All new operations and control
Bring you a different class of surprised.

Here it comes
Jointly developed by Cayin and Hiby Music
i5 Lossless Portable Digital Audio Player

Time: 23 April 2016, 13:30
Venue: Ritan International Hotel (Beijing)
http://www.ritan-intlhotel.com/index_en.asp
Stay Tuned

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Now, if we could just get one in time for the Portland meet in early May...

davidcotton said:

Saying it now. achilles heel will be the battery life.  Betting the average will be around 9 hours or so.  If it isn't I'll tip my hat to them.

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Don't have the actual test figures as I didn't get around to test the battery duration of i5 sample, just used it in scattered occasion, lets said I wouldn't too worry if 9 hours is what you are looking for.

nmatheis said:

Good suggestion H20. Changed.



Now, if we could just get one in time for the Portland meet in early May...
:wink_face:

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I was hoping that we can beat the timetable and be able to do that, but sorry, seems unlikely, so we'll send out the rest of the Portland meet equipments (N5, C5, C5DAC) later this week.

Wow, very fast, I just upload the clip and you have the link already.

Grateful to your attention on Cayin's products. The translation takes longer then expect, will resume tomorrow and try to post the detail within 12 hours.

No protection for the volume knob in rest a mixture of iRiver Spinn and IHP series design.

musicday said:

No protection for the volume knob in rest a mixture of iRiver Spinn and IHP series design.

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Have tested this briefly, I need to use two fingers to turn the volume knob smoothly, so it is unlikely that the volume will suddenly turns all the way up unintentionally.

PRESS RELEASE
For immediate publication
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April 23, 2016 – Beijing, China – Cayin and HiBy Music are pleased to announce a new DAP, the Android based Master Quality i5, at the “Never be the same again” press conference, Ritan International Hotel (Beijing).

Cayin i5 is housed inside a CNC aerospace aluminum alloy chassis with carbon fiber back plate and weighted at 196g only. The player is running on Android 4.4, fully customized by HiBy Music. On top of the 32GB internal storage and microSD card (upto 200GB), users can playback online and offline music from networked or external storage via USB Type C, WiFi and Bluetooth connections. i5 support native DSD decoding, and can decode/playback numerous lossless format. Last but not least, i5 is the first ever DAP that incorporate vertical domain embedded content (available in Mainland China only), user can access to 500 thousands licensed lossless music files from HiBy Music and dFIM. i5 will retail at ¥2998 (RMB), sales channel and time to market will be announced subsequently.




The Cayin i5 Press Conference was attended by 100 media and guest. The event started at 2:00pm 23 April 2016 (Beijing time), and the design concept and features of Cayin i5 was thoroughly explained over a 2 hours presentation. The Press conference was broadcasted on Internet realtime and was viewed by 15,000 audience.











For those who can understand Chinese, you can review the press conference at the following links

http://www.huajiao.com/l/10813152
http://www.huajiao.com/l/10820563:

I have translated the main pages in the PowerPoint for your reference.


























The Cayin i5 has achieved another breakthrough by including licensed content in the DAP. Unfortunately these content are only available in Mainland China. Cayin has demonstrated our ability cope with build-in contents and we are looking forward to work with content providers all over the world.

To summarised, the main features of Cayin i5 is as follows:

1. Fully customized Android 4.4, support WiFi, Bluetooth and DLNA
2. Modest control interface via TFT 800x480 IPS Touch Panel, navigate through music library with click, drag and sweep.
   
3. Proven audio design (similar to N5) with premium components: AKM4490 flagship DAC chipset， PGA2311 Volume control,，2 x LME49720 buffer Op-Am (LPF and Voltage amplification)，2xBUF634 high current headphone amplifier, one for each channel.
4. Low noise floor: 0. 005mV for line output, 0.01mV for headphone output
5. 14mm slim design with high capacity 4800mAH battery, offline playback last for 11 hours, online playback via WiFi around 10 hours (depends on condition of WiFi connection)
6. 5 digital filter, 10 bands EQ with multiple preset, support custom EQ.
7. User can install third party applications through apk installation package or Google Play (probably not available in the initial version)
8. Support online streaming app such as Tidal and Spotify (to be tested)
9. First ever DAP with USB Type C offers compact and versatile function, facilitate charging, file management, USB digital and S/PDIF output (via optional cable) in one port
10. Duplex USB digital connection, can used as USB-DAC when connect to a computer, or become a digital transport when connect to a DAC
11. Support 2-channels DST encoded SACD-ISO and DSD (finally)
12. Retail at ¥2998 (RMB) starting 28 May 2016, custom leather case will be available at ¥198 (RMB), international retail price to be determined.

More details will be available after I can test the production unit for real-life battery duration and online service sch as Tidal and Spotify.

Cayin will attend Munich High End Show (S--/T11 in Hall 4) on 5-8 May 2016, the new i5 will be available for demonstration at the show, along side with full range of Cayin personal audio product and selected traditional HiFi products.