[goodvibes]

Yeah the filters make absolutely no difference to the sound. Maybe they're just placeholders.

Sounds like there's more coming. Sure makes doing proper reviews difficult. It's the sort of thing that group should be made aware of.

 

[bagofolives]

I did not understand ........... can you explain yourself better?
Thanks

More in line if there's something more specific to what kind of filter it is other than "Darwin 1, Darwin 2, Darwin 3, etc.

 

[Max spl]

Best dap company in the world easily !
Best dap in the world.
All daps now are eating dust from hiby.
Hardware, software, design, sound, battery, everything, amazing , it has it all.
I was waiting so long to see something like this.

 

[twister6]

Folks said the same about the R6 but I find them rather apparent on that unit.

I think there is a bit of a confusion because many expected these RS6 Darwin controller Low-Pass Antialiasing filters to behave the same as Digital built-in filters found in a traditional delta sigma DACs from AKM, ESS, CS. In those, you can hear the difference, still subtle but more audible. Here, I'm not so sure. I don't hear the difference between these RS6 filters or iem presets. But I have spoken with Hiby and they measured the difference in a waveform when applying these antialiasing filters.

But either way, if you want to do soundshaping, use MSEB or download any 3rd part app like UAPP or Neutron to tweak the sound

 

[hemtmaker]

I managed to try out the RS6 today at the dealer. Using screen brightness of 90% at medium gain vol=25, listening to a bunch of flacs on my sdcard inside the leather case, the unit did get quite hot at the end of a 35mins listening session, is that in line with everyone’s experience? Also, battery had drained from 99% to 81%. Cheers!

 

[aaf evo]

It does get a little warm, yes.

 

[senseitedj]

I managed to try out the RS6 today at the dealer. Using screen brightness of 90% at medium gain vol=25, listening to a bunch of flacs on my sdcard inside the leather case, the unit did get quite hot at the end of a 35mins listening session, is that in line with everyone’s experience? Also, battery had drained from 99% to 81%. Cheers!

Yes battery life isn't that great, especially when you're using balanced out

 

[Max spl]

I like so much how the RS6 looks
Insane are the options for tweaking the sound and with android 9 is what I looking for

I have the shanling m8 which I really love with this insane bass performance and stage . I was thinking selling it and buying the RS6 but I'm not sure about it .

 

[Zachik]

Yes battery life isn't that great, especially when you're using balanced out

Hopefully, will be improved over time through optimizations using FW updates.

 

[fabio19]

I managed to try out the RS6 today at the dealer. Using screen brightness of 90% at medium gain vol=25, listening to a bunch of flacs on my sdcard inside the leather case, the unit did get quite hot at the end of a 35mins listening session, is that in line with everyone’s experience? Also, battery had drained from 99% to 81%. Cheers!

Me too for the moment the battery runs out very quickly.

 

[hemtmaker]

It does get a little warm, yes.

Yes battery life isn't that great, especially when you're using balanced out

Ok cheers. Sound wise I ca

Me too for the moment the battery runs out very quickly.

i wonder how RS6’s battery life compares to Cayin N6ii-R01? Does r2r dac inherently consume more power compared to delta sigma dacs?

 

[audionewbi]

All those resistors will cause heat generation as their job is to resist the flow of electron, and the byproduct is always heat. Not sure about the amp section, what is working on, some of DAPS work on pure class A up to a certain level.

 

[gLer]

Sounds like there's more coming. Sure makes doing proper reviews difficult. It's the sort of thing that group should be made aware of.

Like Alex said these are low pass filters and have little audible effect. The naming is a bit confusing, and without any info from HiBy they probably should have been left as hidden settings. I may have mentioned this in my review.

I managed to try out the RS6 today at the dealer. Using screen brightness of 90% at medium gain vol=25, listening to a bunch of flacs on my sdcard inside the leather case, the unit did get quite hot at the end of a 35mins listening session, is that in line with everyone’s experience? Also, battery had drained from 99% to 81%. Cheers!

Yes it gets warm but not too hot. The copper frame is an excellent heatsink. Battery life is average, short by modern day standards, especially when playing hi-res files over balanced out with wifi on. But it's one of the compromises of a smaller DAP with a smaller battery.

 

[fabio19]

Ok cheers. Sound wise I ca

i wonder how RS6’s battery life compares to Cayin N6ii-R01? Does r2r dac inherently consume more power compared to delta sigma dacs?

i have never had cayin n6ii. Maybe someone who had it and now has RS6 could give you an answer.

 

[blotmouse]

i wonder how RS6’s battery life compares to Cayin N6ii-R01? Does r2r dac inherently consume more power compared to delta sigma dacs?

My N6ii Ti goes around 7-8 hrs 20-85% on mixed lossless and hi res Qobuz UAPP streaming.
Max charge to full drain I never did but I think I clocked 11.5 hrs full charge down to 5% playing lossless flac on 4.4 balanced when it was new.
It gets less with more hi-res use, of course. Thats with a 5900mAh battery.

Hope that helps.