[buckster666]

R9

The screen looks bigger

 

[PenguinHeadphoner]

Any news about the specs and price ?

Because if I look at the front, it is a little more refined, but nothing really different and front the back it looks like it has the same inputs and outputs the R7 has.

So changes should be internal : what DAC ; what headphone amp ; what price ?

 

[leylandi]

around 1500$

 

[PenguinHeadphoner]

around 1500$

Hi,

OK. So that doubles the price of the R9 compared to the R7.

Any idea what it has more to justifiy the up-price ?

Regards.

 

[leylandi]

 

[PenguinHeadphoner]

Hi,

Nice pictures.

Screen seems to be indeed bigger on R9 than it is on R7.

But what frightens me is that the guy on the second picture is obviously playing with Volume button and he has to push it to 95% and still has headphones over his ears.
With my current set-up, if I am at 40% in low gain I am already not able to keep the headphones anymore...
I hope he at least wears the 350Ohm version of the Fiio headphones

So we're still waiting for the specs of this baby DAC + heaphone amps and power

 

[TheFritz]

Any news about the specs and price ?

Because if I look at the front, it is a little more refined, but nothing really different and front the back it looks like it has the same inputs and outputs the R7 has.

So changes should be internal : what DAC ; what headphone amp ; what price ?

Besides the screen and the design, the ports on the back seem to have changed as well. Judging from the low resolution render, I think there are two HDMI-ports taking the space of the USB-ports on the R7 which moved up (USB-C) and down (USB-A host) on the R9. I have no idea if the HDMI ports are for I2S and/or for HDMI-ARC but that is clearly a difference.

 

[PenguinHeadphoner]

Besides the screen and the design, the ports on the back seem to have changed as well. I think there are two HDMI-ports taking the space of the USB-ports on the R7 which moved up (USB-C) and down (USB-A host). I have no idea if the HDMI ports are for I2S and/or for HDMI-ARC but that is clearly a difference.

Hi,

You have good eyes. I could not identify that on the picture. Could not magnify the thing

But indeed that would be a good thing to be able to connect my GPU with HDMI ports to the R9.

 

[PenguinHeadphoner]

No answers ? A thread about the R9 somewhere ?

 

[Zachik]

But what frightens me is that the guy on the second picture is obviously playing with Volume button and he has to push it to 95% and still has headphones over his ears.

R9 has: Low/High/Super-High/Ultra-High gains. So... maybe the guy in the photo was on low gain?

 

[PenguinHeadphoner]

R9 has: Low/High/Super-High/Ultra-High gains. So... maybe the guy in the photo was on low gain?

Maybe... ON my own device, in "Low gain" at 50% I'm alreay too loud when using the DCA Aeon Flow Closed and 35% is already loujd enoughtfor the SOny MDR-Z1R...

But still no word one the specs for the R9 ? Is there a thread somewhere ?

 

[PopZeus]

For something that is double the price of the R7, I would expect a built-in LPS, better DAC (since FiiO like chips, that new AKM 4499EX looks interesting), and maybe an SSD slot.

 

[lordearl]

Yes - agree @PopZeus at this stage it looks smarter to use the R7 and upgrade the components around it if one needed to (ie. better power supply, external DAC/amp, etc)....what I like about the R7 is that it's a great base to build from!

 

[PenguinHeadphoner]

Yes - agree @PopZeus at this stage it looks smarter to use the R7 and upgrade the components around it if one needed to (ie. better power supply, external DAC/amp, etc)....what I like about the R7 is that it's a great base to build from!

Hi,

Not sure I understand what you're saying here.
If you want to add an external DAC + an external headphone amp + an extrenal power supply, then what's the point of the R7 ?
Is it not "smarter" to get a simple streamer (maybe a Raspberry Pi4 with moOde ?) that will do the same for the same price with probably better results ?

The whole thing about the R7 is that is can be used as an all-in-on product. Should you upgrade, then that aspect is lost and the R7 makes no sense for me
But that is purely personal...
I've decided to go a slightly different route anyways

 

[lordearl]

Sorry, I should have been clearer - if the upgrades on the R9 are minor and you've already paid for the R7, then for less expenditure you could upgrade various components around it (ie rather than buying the R9). R7 can be all in one, or simply be the streaming device as the source in a system.

I suspect there are some real advantages to the R9 we don't know about yet, let's see!