[egotrip]

Im in Hong Kong, Hiby lives around here and NO units ate in stock at any shop.

Bummer.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

Im in Hong Kong, Hiby lives around here and NO units ate in stock at any shop.

HiBy is in mainland China not Hong Kong. I imagine that keeping mainland units off the streets despite the leaky border will be a high priority for the distributor there per HiBy's instructions, although the price in Hong Kong should eventually settle down at somewhere between the domestic and international price.

 

[jmills8]

HiBy is in mainland China not Hong Kong. I imagine that keeping mainland units off the streets despite the leaky border will be a high priority for the distributor there per HiBy's instructions, although the price in Hong Kong should eventually settle down at somewhere between the domestic and international price.

You should know, well no store in Hong Kong has it in stock. So Hibys office is in the mainland aswell or just where they put it together in China.

 

[IryxBRO]

People are buying it somewhere.

Here is the post from a new owner on FB: LINK

 

[egotrip]

The stock R6 price has been lowered to $499. Used to be $549 before Christmas. (Christmas deal was $455)

 

[Vitandus]

Do devices like the HiBy R6 Pro totally bypass using OpenSL for sound and push all sound processing to the DACs? For example, if you were to sideload YouTube or YT Music, would the R6 Pro fall back to OpenSL-based rendering or still handled by the DAC chipaet(s)?

 

[smallcaps]

Do devices like the HiBy R6 Pro totally bypass using OpenSL for sound and push all sound processing to the DACs? For example, if you were to sideload YouTube or YT Music, would the R6 Pro fall back to OpenSL-based rendering or still handled by the DAC chipaet(s)?

+1

 

[superuser1]

i reckon all audio will pass through HAL and therefore would use the custom driver for the DAC in the R6 Pro... am i correct in this assumption?

 

[IryxBRO]

Do devices like the HiBy R6 Pro totally bypass using OpenSL for sound and push all sound processing to the DACs? For example, if you were to sideload YouTube or YT Music, would the R6 Pro fall back to OpenSL-based rendering or still handled by the DAC chipaet(s)?

HiBY claimed to implement SCR bypass Gen.2 in their devices which is stated in HiBY R6 specs:

One quote from HiBY R6 thread (by Joe Bloggs)

"After the invention of SRC bypass Gen 2 aka DTA: audio fed to the Android audio system is passed unaltered to the DACs. Almost all Android apps can now be bit-perfect. Only requirement is that they do not themselves resample the audio before passing to the Android audio system."

My AP200 is utilizing Pure Music mode which is limited to HiBY Music app only - this is 1st generation of SRC bypass. Not sure about Neutron player. The last time I've checked it was not recognizing the device architecture. But the author of the app has told me that he would add the support. So, probably some advanced apps would still be able to bypass OS sound processing.

 

[howdy]

I may have missed it but was their a mention of Aluminum body's or will it be just Stainless steel?

 

[superuser1]

I may have missed it but was their a mention of Aluminum body's or will it be just Stainless steel?

I haven't heard anything apart from the stainless steel..

 

[QuadraKev]

HiBY claimed to implement SCR bypass Gen.2 in their devices which is stated in HiBY R6 specs:

One quote from HiBY R6 thread (by Joe Bloggs)

"After the invention of SRC bypass Gen 2 aka DTA: audio fed to the Android audio system is passed unaltered to the DACs. Almost all Android apps can now be bit-perfect. Only requirement is that they do not themselves resample the audio before passing to the Android audio system."

My AP200 is utilizing Pure Music mode which is limited to HiBY Music app only - this is 1st generation of SRC bypass. Not sure about Neutron player. The last time I've checked it was not recognizing the device architecture. But the author of the app has told me that he would add the support. So, probably some advanced apps would still be able to bypass OS sound processing.

Last I checked, Neutron is capable of bit-perfect playback on the HiBY R6.

 

[superuser1]

Last I checked, Neutron is capable of bit-perfect playback on the HiBY R6.

Have you or anyone else checked if UAPP works on the R6?

 

[djricekcn]

is there any reviews for this device yet? it's surprising i can't find any and from what i understand, release is very soon.

 

[IryxBRO]

is there any reviews for this device yet? it's surprising i can't find any and from what i understand, release is very soon.

HawaiiBadBoy is the only person who has bought Asian version among all reviewers who is active in the Western internet segment. Probably, we should kindly ask him to share some more impressions...