I have the R2 for two days now...So far, the responses have been generally positive. The negatives concern the bluetooth and wifi range.......both of these are of little importance for my use. If anyone else want to chime in, whether positive or negative, please do so. Although not necessary, if you have an alternative to the R2 that you would recommend for me to consider, I'd appreciate that as well.
Also, if there is a new dap on the horizon (i.e. before this summer) that might interest me, let me know.
Thanks to those that have responded and to those that will respond.
It sounds ****ing good. Others mentioned it already but I just couldnt care until I heard it.
You can switch between high and low gain mode.
I'm using it with tidal. Tidal can freeze if I going in and out of the menus while listening music. If you just use it normally there is no issue.
I inserted an sd card with 14k songs. It took about 10m to update the music collection but that's an inconvenience not an issue.
R2 can act like a sdcard reader. So music transfer is easy.
WiFi range isn't an issue. I have a good Asus router.
Haven't tried Bluetooth yet.
No issues with the touch screen. To me it seems to be that there are zones where you should move your finger. For example if I pull down my finger at the top right corner the quick setting menu never works. But if I pull it down from the top left it always works. Seems to be intended.
I don't have issue with the keyboard. I can type fast with it.
I was able to plug my fiio k5 into the hiby R2 USB and my fiio works as a dac and the R2 as a source. Good for hard to drive headphones.
R2 can work as a dlna server too I think. But I couldn't figure it out yet. It appears on my pc but gave me an error.
Android companion app works so far. You can connect your phone as a client to the R2. In this case the phone is a remote controller.
It can also connect as a server. In this case the phone is providing the content for the R2 and the R2 is just a receiver. To me it seems to be that this is the only way to play music from dlna sources on the R2. So dlna - > phone - > R2.
Battery seems to be 7 hour ish.. With WiFi and tidal streaming.
Build quality is good However its heavy...
So far it's a positive experience for me.