[NJoyzAudio]

Cayin Audio launched a new DAP at CanJam New York in 2023. the N7 is a unique, one-of-its-kind Digital Audio Player because this is Cayin’s first attempt to use a discrete full-balanced circuit for DAC, LPF, and Headphone Amplifier in a DAP. It is also the first and only DAP that incorporates a 1-Bit “DSD” DAC in portable applications.

• Discrete fully-balanced 1-Bit Resistor Network “DSD” DAC
• Discrete fully-balanced Low Pass Filter with BJT driver
• Discrete fully-balanced Headphone Amplifier with JFET input stage and BJT amplification.
• FPGA/Audio Bridge to re-shape, de-jitter and transcode/oversample PCM to DSD512
• Dual Amplification Mode (Choice of Class A/Class AB)
• High Quality “unamplified” single-ended and balanced Line Out
• Unique variable-voltage single-ended and balanced Pre Out
• Android 12 with Google Play preinstalled, streaming ready

Please read the tour instruction carefully. By signing up for the tour, you are agreeing to follow the tour arrangement and will publish a detailed review of Cayin N7 Showcase on Head Gear or any magazine/review website you are affiliated with. For more information regarding Cayin N7, please check out the Cayin website and the official Cayin N7 thread in Head-Fi forum.

Tour Schedule:

• 7 March 2023: Tour Application Starts
• 18 March 2023: Tour Application Ended
• 22 March 2023: Tour Reviewers announced and start to collect mailing addresses.
• 27 March 2023: Tour Sample will be sent to reviewers

​

How to Apply:

If you are interested to review Cayin N7 in this tour, please reply to this thread and provide the following information:

• The CITY and COUNTRY in which you are located.
• Reviews on Personal Audio products you have published in Head Gear/Head-fi forum or elsewhere.
• IEM/Headphones that you will use in your Cayin DAP audition.
• DAP, Dongle DAC, or portable DAC/Amp that you currently own.

Logistic Arrangement:

• Only three tour units are available in this tour, so
• We shall group reviewers according to geographical locations.
• To minimize tax and logistic costs, we shall avoid international shipping within the group unless the shipment is tax-free and low-risk/low-cost in logistics and customs handling.
• We shall send Cayin N7 review package to the first reviewer in each group.
• Each tour reviewer is responsible for paying the shipping costs to the next tour reviewer.
• The last reviewer on the list will be responsible to ship the combo to a designated address to conclude the tour. If the return address requires international shipping, Cayin will cover the mailing cost incurred.
• Cayin will cover all import tax but please help us to control our tax expenditure whenever possible.
• Unless otherwise stated by your next reviewer, please use a trackable mailing service with a signature required.
• If we have more than one Head-Fiers from the same metropolitan area/city joining the tour, we encourage them to pass the equipment in person to reduce shipping cost and mailing time and share the final logistic cost if needed.

Terms and Instruction

• The tour reviewer can keep the Cayin N7 Tour sample for no more than 14 calendar days, please plan your audition and be prepared to ship/pass the package on the 14th of your audition period.
• The first reviewer of each group will have extra 5 days to run in the discrete audio circuit.
• By signing up for the tour, you are agreeing to post a formal review within 14 days after your audition period, and Cayin Audio can use your review of the N7 DAP for sales and marketing purposes.
• We are particularly interested in the associated IEM/headphones you used during the review, and is most appreciate it if you can include a photo of N7 DAP with associated IEMs and headphones in your writing.
• Cauom Audio reserves the right to the selection, grouping, and scheduling of reviewers in this tour.

Publication guideline

You are free to write up your sharing or impression as long as it represents your true feeling and opinions toward the product. Please state in your review/impression that the Cayin N7 is a free loan unit from Cayin Audio, and you have/shall return the unit to Cayin at the end of the review period.

Please do not post your impression in this thread because no one will read this thread after we finalized our tour reviewers. We want your reviews to be read by as many current or potential users of Cayin N7 as possible, so please share your review to the official Cayin N7 thread, the Cayin N7 Showcase at Head Gear, or any related general discussion thread in the Head-Fi forum if you happen to be an active member. On top of the Head-Fi forum, you are welcome to post your review/impression/photo to any social media or local Personal Audio forum/blog/magazine, etc., Please tag your review/impression/photo with #CayinN7 so that we can keep track of your contribution, which is an important factor when we shortlist tour reviews in subsequent products.

Cayin Audio launched a new DAP at CanJam New York in 2023. the N7 is a unique, one-of-its-kind Digital Audio Player because this is Cayin’s first attempt to use a discrete full-balanced circuit for DAC, LPF, and Headphone Amplifier in a DAP. It is also the first and only DAP that incorporates a 1-Bit “DSD” DAC in portable applications.

• Discrete fully-balanced 1-Bit Resistor Network “DSD” DAC
• Discrete fully-balanced Low Pass Filter with BJT driver
• Discrete fully-balanced Headphone Amplifier with JFET input stage and BJT amplification.
• FPGA/Audio Bridge to re-shape, de-jitter and transcode/oversample PCM to DSD512
• Dual Amplification Mode (Choice of Class A/Class AB)
• High Quality “unamplified” single-ended and balanced Line Out
• Unique variable-voltage single-ended and balanced Pre Out
• Android 12 with Google Play preinstalled, streaming ready

Please read the tour instruction carefully. By signing up for the tour, you are agreeing to follow the tour arrangement and will publish a detailed review of Cayin N7 Showcase on Head Gear or any magazine/review website you are affiliated with. For more information regarding Cayin N7, please check out the Cayin website and the official Cayin N7 thread in Head-Fi forum.

Tour Schedule:

• 7 March 2023: Tour Application Starts
• 18 March 2023: Tour Application Ended
• 22 March 2023: Tour Reviewers announced and start to collect mailing addresses.
• 27 March 2023: Tour Sample will be sent to reviewers

​

How to Apply:

If you are interested to review Cayin N7 in this tour, please reply to this thread and provide the following information:

• The CITY and COUNTRY in which you are located.
• Reviews on Personal Audio products you have published in Head Gear/Head-fi forum or elsewhere.
• IEM/Headphones that you will use in your Cayin DAP audition.
• DAP, Dongle DAC, or portable DAC/Amp that you currently own.

Logistic Arrangement:

• Only three tour units are available in this tour, so
• We shall group reviewers according to geographical locations.
• To minimize tax and logistic costs, we shall avoid international shipping within the group unless the shipment is tax-free and low-risk/low-cost in logistics and customs handling.
• We shall send Cayin N7 review package to the first reviewer in each group.
• Each tour reviewer is responsible for paying the shipping costs to the next tour reviewer.
• The last reviewer on the list will be responsible to ship the combo to a designated address to conclude the tour. If the return address requires international shipping, Cayin will cover the mailing cost incurred.
• Cayin will cover all import tax but please help us to control our tax expenditure whenever possible.
• Unless otherwise stated by your next reviewer, please use a trackable mailing service with a signature required.
• If we have more than one Head-Fiers from the same metropolitan area/city joining the tour, we encourage them to pass the equipment in person to reduce shipping cost and mailing time and share the final logistic cost if needed.

Terms and Instruction

• The tour reviewer can keep the Cayin N7 Tour sample for no more than 14 calendar days, please plan your audition and be prepared to ship/pass the package on the 14th of your audition period.
• The first reviewer of each group will have extra 5 days to run in the discrete audio circuit.
• By signing up for the tour, you are agreeing to post a formal review within 14 days after your audition period, and Cayin Audio can use your review of the N7 DAP for sales and marketing purposes.
• We are particularly interested in the associated IEM/headphones you used during the review, and is most appreciate it if you can include a photo of N7 DAP with associated IEMs and headphones in your writing.
• Cauom Audio reserves the right to the selection, grouping, and scheduling of reviewers in this tour.

Publication guideline

You are free to write up your sharing or impression as long as it represents your true feeling and opinions toward the product. Please state in your review/impression that the Cayin N7 is a free loan unit from Cayin Audio, and you have/shall return the unit to Cayin at the end of the review period.

Please do not post your impression in this thread because no one will read this thread after we finalized our tour reviewers. We want your reviews to be read by as many current or potential users of Cayin N7 as possible, so please share your review to the official Cayin N7 thread, the Cayin N7 Showcase at Head Gear, or any related general discussion thread in the Head-Fi forum if you happen to be an active member. On top of the Head-Fi forum, you are welcome to post your review/impression/photo to any social media or local Personal Audio forum/blog/magazine, etc., Please tag your review/impression/photo with #CayinN7 so that we can keep track of your contribution, which is an important factor when we shortlist tour reviews in subsequent products.

Andy,
Would love to be part of the tour.
My info as requested.

• The CITY and COUNTRY in which you are located
  • Los Angeles CA, USA
• Reviews on Personal Audio products you have published in Head Gear/Head-fi forum or elsewhere.
  • IEMs -Plussound Allegro, JH Audio Roxanne and Jolene, Shure SE846
  • Headphones - Meze Lyric
  • Cables - Eletech Inferno, Plussound X8 Paladium Platted Hybrid, X8 Tri-Silver, Exo Copper+
  • DAP-Cayin N8ii, Lotoo Paw 6000, Lotoo PAW S1 &S2, FiiO X5 Mk3
  • Amps - Cayin C9, FiiO Q5s
  • Interconnects - Eletech Iliad, Plussound X8 (for C9)
• IEM/Headphones that you will use in your Cayin DAP audition.
  • Noble Kublai Khan, JH Audio Jolene, Meze Lyric
• DAP, Dongle DAC, or portable DAC/Amp that you currently own.
  • Cayin N8ii, Cayin C9, Lotoo PAW 6000, Lotoo PAW S2

 

[Newsee]

• Schlieren, Switzerland
• Meze Liric
• Empyrean, Envy, Liric, LCD3
• Hiby R8, RS8, AK Kann Cube, Kann, PawS2.

 

[riverground]

1. Toronto, Canada
2. Head-Fi Reviews
3. SE846, MEST JP, KSE1500, ESR MKII, A3000, A4000, A5000, AB1266 & Susvara (Just out of curiosity haha) - And whatever else I’ll have in for review by that time.
4. WM1A, WM1Z, DP-X1, N8, BTR7

 

[Andykong]

We have received 29 sign-up in this thread, plus two ex-tour reviewers confirmed their participation through PM, the response is way beyond our expectations. We are grateful for your interest in our N7 DAP, unfortunately, we can't include everyone in the tour, including some highly calibrated reviewers who have proven track records in their review history or contribution in various discussion threads. The loss is ours.

We shall organize our tour reviewer into 3 groups, and Cayin will send out three tour samples by end of this week. Tentatively each review sample is good for 5-6 reviewers. In our experience, if we include too many reviewers in a tour group, some reviewers will lose interest after waiting for 6-8 weeks, and they'll either drop out or maintain silent after their audition period. We managed to stay within this limit with 2 out of 3 tour groups. The reviewer list is as follows:

Group 1
@Ichos
@NaittsirK
@Nostoi
@kmmbd
@godmax
@ThanatosVI
@Deleeh
@SenyorC

Group 2
@Wiljen
@Niyologist
@Ckro
@freeryder05
@ctsooner22
@gc335

Group 3
@wazzupi
@ngoshawk
@kadinh
@wolfstar76
@NJoyzAudio
@jwilliamhurst

I'll collect the address of the first reviewer of each group, and send out a group PM to get everyone in sync. when the review units were received. Please stay in touch.

 

[ThanatosVI]

We have received 29 sign-up in this thread, plus two ex-tour reviewers confirmed their participation through PM, the response is way beyond our expectations. We are grateful for your interest in our N7 DAP, unfortunately, we can't include everyone in the tour, including some highly calibrated reviewers who have proven track records in their review history or contribution in various discussion threads. The loss is ours.

We shall organize our tour reviewer into 3 groups, and Cayin will send out three tour samples by end of this week. Tentatively each review sample is good for 5-6 reviewers. In our experience, if we include too many reviewers in a tour group, some reviewers will lose interest after waiting for 6-8 weeks, and they'll either drop out or maintain silent after their audition period. We managed to stay within this limit with 2 out of 3 tour groups. The reviewer list is as follows:

Group 1
@ChoS
@NaittsirK
@Nostoi
@kmmbd
@godmax
@ThanatosVI
@Deleeh
@SenyorC

Group 2
@Wiljen
@Niyologist
@Ckro
@freeryder05
@ctsooner22
@gc335

Group 3
@wazzupi
@ngoshawk
@kadinh
@wolfstar76
@NJoyzAudio
@jwilliamhurst

I'll collect the address of the first reviewer of each group, and send out a group PM to get everyone in sync. when the review units were received. Please stay in touch.

Thx @Andykong for including me.
Looking forward to the Tour!

 

[Nostoi]

We have received 29 sign-up in this thread, plus two ex-tour reviewers confirmed their participation through PM, the response is way beyond our expectations. We are grateful for your interest in our N7 DAP, unfortunately, we can't include everyone in the tour, including some highly calibrated reviewers who have proven track records in their review history or contribution in various discussion threads. The loss is ours.

We shall organize our tour reviewer into 3 groups, and Cayin will send out three tour samples by end of this week. Tentatively each review sample is good for 5-6 reviewers. In our experience, if we include too many reviewers in a tour group, some reviewers will lose interest after waiting for 6-8 weeks, and they'll either drop out or maintain silent after their audition period. We managed to stay within this limit with 2 out of 3 tour groups. The reviewer list is as follows:

Group 1
@ChoS
@NaittsirK
@Nostoi
@kmmbd
@godmax
@ThanatosVI
@Deleeh
@SenyorC

Group 2
@Wiljen
@Niyologist
@Ckro
@freeryder05
@ctsooner22
@gc335

Group 3
@wazzupi
@ngoshawk
@kadinh
@wolfstar76
@NJoyzAudio
@jwilliamhurst

I'll collect the address of the first reviewer of each group, and send out a group PM to get everyone in sync. when the review units were received. Please stay in touch.

Thank you, sir; looking forward!

 

[ctsooner22]

Thanks so much for this Andy. It’s greatly appreciated.

 

[NaittsirK]

Thank you @Andykong !
I am very grateful for being included ! ^^

 

[Deleeh]

Hello,
A big zhank you from my side.
I'm really looking forward to testing the N7, and I'm very excited to hold it in my hands.

See you soon

 

[jwilliamhurst]

Thank you @Andykong for the opportunity! Looking forward to it

 

[kadinh]

Awesome! Thank you very much! I cant wait to hear it.

 

[ngoshawk]

 

[Ichos]

@Andykong

Thank you very much for including me in the tour.

 

[NJoyzAudio]

We have received 29 sign-up in this thread, plus two ex-tour reviewers confirmed their participation through PM, the response is way beyond our expectations. We are grateful for your interest in our N7 DAP, unfortunately, we can't include everyone in the tour, including some highly calibrated reviewers who have proven track records in their review history or contribution in various discussion threads. The loss is ours.

We shall organize our tour reviewer into 3 groups, and Cayin will send out three tour samples by end of this week. Tentatively each review sample is good for 5-6 reviewers. In our experience, if we include too many reviewers in a tour group, some reviewers will lose interest after waiting for 6-8 weeks, and they'll either drop out or maintain silent after their audition period. We managed to stay within this limit with 2 out of 3 tour groups. The reviewer list is as follows:

Group 1
@Ichos
@NaittsirK
@Nostoi
@kmmbd
@godmax
@ThanatosVI
@Deleeh
@SenyorC

Group 2
@Wiljen
@Niyologist
@Ckro
@freeryder05
@ctsooner22
@gc335

Group 3
@wazzupi
@ngoshawk
@kadinh
@wolfstar76
@NJoyzAudio
@jwilliamhurst

I'll collect the address of the first reviewer of each group, and send out a group PM to get everyone in sync. when the review units were received. Please stay in touch.

Andy

Honored to be included with such a distinguished group of reviewers/testers!
Thank you for the chance to give feedback!

 

[SenyorC]

Thank you @Andykong !!