Hi, I'm a newbie here and finding it intriguing and bewildering. I've been looking at this Dap for a little while now and following this thread. I myself have never had one of these new gen Dap's and this at £500 would be a big financial investment for me. As I'm learning this is only a Mid-priced Dap. Is it normal for a Dap to have so many bugs/issues? i would have expected that a music player should work perfectly at the time of release and all these problems eliminated in development & testing prior to launch. (Radio, tape, cd, dats, & earlier Mp3 players all worked perfect when purchased back in the day). I'm dying to hear the quality that I'm reading about but these niggles just make me hesitant on pulling the trigger and buying. Thnx.
I can help you out with this, because I’m exactly the same. I’ve come from listening to music on an iPhone and a ten year old Fiio X5, and it’s also my first Android experience.
The Hiby at its heart is an extremely competent music player. The audio quality from FLAC files and WAV files is extremely impressive.
But I’m not enjoying the Android experience at all. I have to remind myself that this isn’t a smart phone, it’s a music player and it’s about the superior sound quality. As with all hardware, I will learn to use it, but I’m finding navigating around straightforward operations to be rather tedious.
I posted just the other day that the Hiby time and date was constantly resetting every time I switched off the machine. Thanks to a reply on this thread, the v1.11 firmware fixed that. How did such a fundamental error like this actually make it to the point of retail?
I guess we have come to expect that manufacturers have no option, but to get their products out or they lose traction.
Conversely, I recently updated my historic X5 to v2.7 (from 2017) from v2.6 and it completely screwed importing FLAC files, with skipping and jittering. I rolled it back and it was fixed. So it also shows that even when a product has got that far, firmware can still cause issues.
I guess all we can do with these software based products is report issues as they happen and expect some action from the manufacturer.
Many companies in my industry, cameras, often just dangle exciting new upgrade features, with the fundamentals still requiring work a year later, as a distraction tactic and to keep hold of its customers with ‘caring’ development strategy.
I think if you remind yourself that it’s about enjoying the music, the player will already do what you need it to do, then you’ll be headed down the right road.
I really enjoy the R6 III sound, I don’t mind using the Hiby audio player app for now. I will learn the rest as I find my way through Android world, I’ll probably find I won’t care about much more.
One thing this Hiby experience has confirmed, is that I will never own an Android smart phone if the experience is like this! For me, although I know this is debatable, the iPhone is so unbelievably slick and intuitive everyday environment.
