[alota]

Strange. I bought from cayin germany monday and today arrives in portugal with dhl

 

[econaut]

One thing to NOTE: While at work this afternoon, I had the RU6 connected (with the Cayin USB-C cable) to my LG V35, and was definitely disturbed by sporadic "RF / Electrical" noise bursts.

I read about EMI noise problems with different dongles quite often. I have never experienced that. How does this sound? How can I maybe cause this deliberetely in order to test?

 

[111MilesToGo]

I ordered mine from Cayin Germany late Friday; the order was fulfilled on Monday. After presumably sitting in the local DHL store in that little city where Cayin is located for a day or two, the package has now arrived in my region of Germany. So, patience is the name of the game; and that is the price of the season as well as the price for being located in the very nice region of the Taunus hills.

 

[emilsoft]

The RU6 is a very nice pairing for the JVC FDX1 IEM - the natural tone of the Cayin counteracts the slight metallic tinge of the JVC, and the bloom fills out the fast decay of the IEM - it's a super combination. I always found the JVC slightly too aggressive with my other sources such as the Earmen Sparrow, but the RU6 gives a solid inject of bloom and warmth to complement.. Also, because of the FDX1 slight treble roll off, there is no issues with treble etch

 

[captblaze]

Meenova Lignting to USB-C OTG Cable <---- If you want to get some distance between your iPhone and RU6 try this. Not claiming it is made from Unicorn bits or anything like that. It is a cable that interfaces between your iPhone and RU6. There are 2 lengths 4ft. and .5 ft.. There is also a USB-C to USB-C model.

The 4 ft. cable works with my iphone 13 mini and RU6 with no issue.

 

[If6was9]

I ordered mine from Cayin Germany late Friday; the order was fulfilled on Monday. After presumably sitting in the local DHL store in that little city where Cayin is located for a day or two, the package has now arrived in my region of Germany. So, patience is the name of the game; and that is the price of the season as well as the price for being located in the very nice region of the Taunus hills.

Mine has still been stopped for 4 days in Germany, it has to arrive in Italy.
I hope it will be released by today, otherwise I am forced to cancel the order

 

[vilhelm44]

To anyone who has both RU6 and N6ii w/R01, is there a big enough difference in the sound to warrant the extra spend on the DAP? Just talking from sound point only and nothing else. I'm loving the RU6 sounds, and it's got me thinking about N6ii/R01 now.

 

[Deders]

Mine has still been stopped for 4 days in Germany, it has to arrive in Italy.
I hope it will be released by today, otherwise I am forced to cancel the order

Maybe phone your courier first?

 

[iFi audio]

Maybe phone your courier first?

If a package is stuck at a customs clearance office that's beyond a courier company, but otherwise it wouldn't harm calling it and ask about any delays.

 

[econaut]

If a package is stuck at a customs clearance office that's beyond a courier company, but otherwise it wouldn't harm calling it and ask about any delays.

In the EU there shouldn't be any customs clearance

OT Disclaimer: Really sad about Brexit.

 

[musicday]

Anyone in UK can browse Cayin website? Doesn't work for me.

 

[Andykong]

Anyone in UK can browse Cayin website? Doesn't work for me.

We are in the middle of transition from old web server to new web server. We have move the Chinese web site already, and is working on the English website this week. Short term offline is expected but the service should resume shortly. Well, at least that's what I was promised.

 

[DBaldock9]

Good to hear!

However, let me give a general remark on Linux audio. In the days of pulseaudio, it was and is mandatory to play directly to alsa in order to be sure that all replay is bit perfect. pulseaudio is like the obnoxious Windows Mixer in that MS world. I don‘t know whether that changes with pipewire, but I dare to doubt it.

So my suggestion would be to always play directly to alsa under Linux. That output is selectable in mpd, DeaDBeeF and many others, I suppose also in JRiver.

The actual Audio Device name that I selected in MC28 is: pipewire [ALSA] Pipewire Sound Server
So, while pipewire does currently replace pulseaudio, it works with ALSA, instead of completely replacing it.

Quote from - https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire
"For ALSA
ALSA clients can be configured to output via PipeWire.
Some may describe this as "replacing ALSA", but as the PipeWire FAQ clarifies: "No, ALSA is an essential part of the Linux audio stack, it provides the interface to the kernel audio drivers. That said, the ALSA user space library has a lot of stuff in it that is probably not desirable anymore these days, like effects plugins, mixing, routing, slaving, etc. PipeWire uses a small subset of the core ALSA functionality to access the hardware. All of the other features should be handled by PipeWire.""

 

[Andykong]

Mine just arrived. Listened just a bit, then hooked it up burn-in. I'll listen in from time to time for the next couple of days, but initially it sounds purdy-dang gud!

It doesn't appear that volume can be controlled by the source unless I missed something. Any possibility of adding that feature in at a later date??

I think that's not what he meant. Some dongle DACs have their HID key function enabled where you can control your volume from the device, but the process of volume attenuation is done on the DAC instead of in the operating system. The W2 and the AK PEE51 are the example of that.

Thanks pinkpiglet for explaining the situation for us. Since R-2R DAC doesn't support volume control during digital decoding, so even when we enabled USB HIB class, you won't be able to control the volume of RU6 from the source.

 

[SemiAudiophile]

I like the R2R effect; the visceral muscular bass, a more direct connection to the music, bloom and width - similar to what reasonable vinyl setup can sound like - minus the slight treble etch

Yeah I'd akin the sound to vinyl but without hiss, pops, and crackles. It presents a good amount of detail but it's not got give you the hyper amount that a sabre chip can get you.

I keep thinking about the etch and I think I can kind of hear what you guys are talking about. But it's not super apparent to me, unless I actively listen for it. I just notice a bit of crispiness up top is all, but still burning mines in at about 20hrs at this point.