HiByR6 III Digital Audio Player Portable Hi Res Audio Player MP3 MP4 Player with Class A&AB Dac Amp Android 12 Bluetooth 5.0 WiFi

Sound preference is so subjective, being different from person to person for so many reasons. For reference my ears are over 50 years old and have been listening to in ear music for over 30 years. For me I love this DAP. Straight out of the box, playing FLAC from my SDcard, the sound was superb. A little mid forward, but the bass is solid depending on your headphones/ IEMs. Vocals are really well delivered. Being mid forward female vocals are really beautifully presented. Higher frequencies are very clear and offer very good separation and air to the music, even with closed back headphones. Balanced mode is a step up in performance. This unit also partners very well with an external portable amp like the Ifi XCan.I’ve had a Hiby player in the past and found the MSEB sound enhancement to be invaluable to tailoring the sound to my taste. However with the R6 III, the normal EQ does the job for my head phones (Focal Clear, Hifiman Arya, in balanced mode, Bowers & Wilkins P9 unbalanced.). One word of advice if using the EQ, take care of the “amp” slider in the EQ. If you raise this and increase the bass frequencies you will get distortion. I also like that the pre set EQ settings like Pop, Rock, Jazz etc, can also be adjusted.Playing in class A amp mode the player does get hot. I can’t say that I found the sound to be markedly improved from AB mode, but it does drain the battery quicker. I strongly recommend that you don’t keep the player in your pocket particularly in Class A mode.I’ve not really used any of the Google/Android stuff, I wanted a player to play my stored music library and that’s mainly how I’ve been using it.This is quite a high quality DAP, if you have poor or low res music, it will be very unforgiving and will show up the poor quality. I thought my headphones had blown a driver listening to an album, but then realised that it was a 275mbps MP3 copy. Playing FLAC and WAV sound excellent or 320mbps MP3 sounds pretty good too.Reading some of the reviews, it seems that maybe quality control from Hiby is a bit hit and miss regarding the UI and it being glitchy. I love the UI on my player, it performs as I would expect. It connects to my network without issue and the BT connection is quick and strong.As far as build goes, it’s very sturdy and solid feeling. I found the supplied case to be a bit cumbersome, however I dropped my player this morning from a desk, onto a tiled floor, thank goodness I had the case on, not a scratch to either glass panel. Battery charges on fast charge in around an hour and a half from around 20% to 95%.The volume wheel being on top is a great idea to allow access in a pocket, however the headphone cables exiting from the bottom makes no sense to me. With the weight of this unit, pressing down on your jack plug I think it would run the risk of either breaking the cable eventually or applying undue stress to to the headphone socket. A right angled Jack would solve this I guess.Overall, coming from a Sony NW A306 which I thought was the bees knees, IMO the R6 III is a step up in sound, overall presentation of music and features. All be it, that I think the Sony was better designed, I wouldnt swap the R6 III. For my use it is superb.

It is a very solid bit of kit, as big as my old Panasonic, bigger than the, Sony and heavier.Hopefully some of the weight is in a big battery.Not too much bloat ware to clear out.Downloaded Tidal and Amazon music.Both sound great, but tidal through hiby's great in house music app, about blew my ears off quality, clarity and slightly better volume than Android and the Govt restrictions normally allow.I am happy but it comes at a price, apart from the cost of the player, I need to get new cans and balanced cables to play with all the features but its only about 5 haircuts for the wife and it will last longer, hopefully.Just to add a month or so on, been away in Tenerife lots of updates to software, which have smoothed a couple of annoying features like time resetting, some crash issues, basically it works better now more consistently. I am a bit fed up with the memory it had a 1tb card in which should be ok but it keeps losing it and is filling the internal memory with stuff I want in the card. But it's not too annoying yet, will try a different card when I can be bothered they are so small and fiddly for old farts fingers to manipulate.Still very good

Great size, feel and user experience. Snappy interface. Being Android is great. Sounds fantastic and plenty power to drive all my IEMs and open back headphones. Good battery and really good as usb dac. Line out into my amp is an added bonus. Can't fault it.

First impressions I got was very heavy, in terms of hand held devicesAfter update voice thinking outThere are great options for changing settings etc and robustBut in comparison to Ibasso DX180 which is great out box speed , screen, music, storage, weight, clean Android hiby 6 iii lags behindI would recommend Ibasso DX180 In £500 category or even fiio at that price

Arrived with zero battery and minimal instructions, it took a while to charge and it needed an update to the system before I could connect successfully to the Wifi, and install Amazon Music app.Once set up it worked really well with the IEM and headphones I own. Currently using it on high gain with Theiaudio Ghost's as on low and medium gain needed to turn the volume up really high to get adequate level of volume - not sure how well it would do with high impedance headphones.It uses bare bones android 12, so if you use android you will find it intuitive and easy to use. It comes with a clear case, and screen protectors applied front and back. The case makes button usage a little more difficult but protects the DAP, which is shorter than a typical mobile phone, has similar width, and more depth to accommodate the 3.5 and 4.4mm line out and headphone sockets and will therefore likely live in your pocket and a case is a must.Battery life seems good and I am enjoying using the Hiby R6 III. It is better than streaming and downloading music on to my mobile phone, and to my old, non-audiophile ears the quality doesn't seem all that different to using a Wiim plugged into a Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200m.

THIS UNIT PLAYS HIGH REZ /PLUS CD QUALITY WITH EASE BEST DAP that ive ever had in a decade.interface/ menu screen presentation 10/10 . internet access excellent if requiredITS good to see a good charging cable the thickness shows a good csa for quick chargingplenty of options to modify sound /frequency range .google store to add music appsit has the option of class A or class A B IN TRUTH THERE IS A SMALL IMPROVEMENT at the expense of battery life . two screen protectors fitted and a spare,.clear protective cover included it would be better with a total coverloading 500gb card id faultless . format then copy FAILED AFTER 3 MONTHS UNABLE TO POWER UP. SEEMS TO BE COMMON . AWAIT FOR REPLY

The volume wheel is annoying and when you put the cover that come with the product is almost impossible to use it. Nice screen and quality of building. I returned it in the end.

~~~Update day nine at top. Day 3 and Day 1 further down.~~~Day 9 shows no signs of there ever being any problems. It works flawlessly and I no longer have any fears of turning it off and it staying off permanently.This device works so fast and smoothly it is better than my phone which has the latest octacore processor and most gb currently available too for processor memory, way to go Samsung, so embarrassed 😳. It is really pretty appreciatively speedy. But more importantly the sound, try to set it on the lowest gain you can to achieve the sound you want and then turn the volume up to at least mid point to 80%. I find that a good range for me, not only for sound, but for longer battery life as well. Any more gain than that and battery life drains faster and I have yet to try bluetooth or class A amplification. Only bluetooth is a curiosity to me as the sound is more than clean or pure enough for me on AB power and also the battery savings of being on AB is more important. Nice to have the choice definitely.I have used it on some pretty demanding headphones and it is more than up to the challenge. Today I used it on Harmonicdyne Zeus current and previous generation(I don't know if there's much of a difference in power draw?). Then Fedelio X3 and they sound absolutely amazing and they no longer sound wimpy and like there is a big restriction on them in someway at 95db, they now get as loud as you can desire. And they just sound plain good! Then AKG 712, they aren't very high of ohm, but quite high voltage demand so they say, idk about their requirements precisely other than most amps and phones not being enough to run them well enough, but they sounded really good and full from this DAP. Imaging was perfect like a desktop setup and mids were not weak like I was expecting, they were the beautiful AKG mids you expect. I did not try my Sennheiser HD650s I know they take 600 to 650 ohms and I am afraid to try that with out the 4.4mm cable for the higher output.This is one very capable DAP, I hope it lasts!I'm so sorry I don't know what to write to be more helpful.Thank you so much HyBy, I love this DAP that youve made!----Update, day three.---- Original review follows.On day two after little sleep.Lol Also after many resets and trying to add the Google Playstore itself, which is a very big pain even if you know your password and how to do all of the 2nd access things required lately to get into your Google account when trying to add another device to your Google account. So absolutely frustrating, but so very worth it in the end. 😀 They mention 48 hour holds on your Google account before allowing you access to your account to make sure you are the one requesting the access to it. Yuck! I almost gave up, until writing them a naughty letter saying that no one else would know all of the things that I do about me to get to this point and that it's ridiculous, etc. So the 48 hours ended early. But anyway, It's been a seemingly never-ending battle of resets, restarts and just migraines trying to figure this thing out. My suggestion is to restart it after every bit of "no matter how small of 'progress' you make with it. " That means to restart it after every app you add, every adjustment you make or setting you change. Yes it's very temperamental. But I have come to love it for that and to understand it's needs, all for the love of its pure and beautiful sound that it provides to us. Now adding music to it... that is the tricky part. What I did was, since I only have an iMac for a computer. I know, Apple and Android do not under any circumstance cooperate. What I did was use an external USB hard drive, a SanDisk1tb solid state, and put all of my music on to that once transferred to WAV format and then plugged that into the USB on the HyBy player and it was fairly easy and speedy from there to transfer it to the microSD card in the HyBy. It was a brand new microSD card and the Mac would not read it so I could not transfer directly to that even directly inserted to the Mac. But it would transfer to the external hard drive. And I used my phone to format the microSD card before putting it into the HyBy. But after a while of using the HyBy it has a popup saying there is an update available, the same one that was supposed to have been done on day one set up. So I plug it in to the charger and start that and it stops half way through saying it has failed, so I then restart the HyBy. Start the update again and this time it gets farther into the update before saying it has failed and then I restart it again and while it's restarting I unplug and plug back in my modem/router for my internet and after all of that the update goes all of the way through and finishes this time. So I give restart it again myself after it does its own after the install and then I use it for the rest of the night, trying the MSEB effects and not liking them as well as I do just the pure player sound in itself on high gain AB amp. Mayne I'll give Tidal another try. I tried it out for about 2 years and then switched to Spotify after not being able to appreciate the difference, it could have been the equipment I was listening with.In the time after the first day this HyBy player has won we over 100%. I started out with the HyBy FC4 and that gave me a lot of problems and then exchanged it after getting a hold of someone from customer service that was having a bad day and did not offer any help at all. But I ended up loving that DAC/amp dongle. So HyBy has my sound for sure.I hope I've offered some help,ErinOh my gosh! Day one, just out of the box I plug it to charge while I'm reading the very, very limited instructions. You have to be a mind reader to understand this device. So after instructions are read, I turn it on and do set up, I set the language to English and put in my WiFi info, then it immediately wants to do the update. So I do that and then it wants to do a restart after that and then I believe it is now kaput, done, finished. Well, it didn't want to restart. No light anywhere to show it was charging, no sign if life anywhere. I gave it 20 minutes in case it was doing some kind of installation. After that I tried to do some of the restarts I read from reviews here and the only thing that I could do to get it to budge is to hold down the power button and the next button for a reset. Then the Hiby logo came up on the screen followed by a battery symbol with the percent inside of it and then a black screen. Nothing else, except for the red blinking LED showing the charging battery. I'm thinking I've been taken and this will have to go back. And I had high hopes for it too.I'll post updates after it charges and I try to turn it on. Fingers crossed. LolValue for money l equals, nothing and less all rolled into one. Sound quality is very desired at this point as I am not getting it. Size is fine and memory is fine if it continues to do nothing, compatability as well. Please seek another player, the current reviews suggest it is true.More to come...

Es un DAP de excelente calidad. Tal vez la sensación del potenciómetro del volúmen me hubiese gustado con un poco más de resistencia pero eso ya es una cuestión personal. Se escucha de maravilla tanto sin modificaciones en el ecualizador como con las muchisimas opciones de modificación de usuario que tienes a disposición con éste dispositivo. Como un buen DAP no sufrirás por el tema de ecualizar a tu gusto la música como a ti te gusta. Eso si, en mi caso desactivé la luz que indica la calidad de sonido y asila bateria te dura mucho más. En lo personal a mi sí me gusta lo robusto y el peso que tiene.

Super DAP. Leider funktioniert der Android Auto nicht. Android Auto muss im Betriebssystem integriert sein, sonst funktioniert es nicht. Wenn man die Android Auto App installiert funktioniert es nicht. Es kommt immer der Kommunikationsfehler 22. Ansonsten ist das Gerät Top. Nur im Wagen über das USB-C Kabel geht gar nichts. Schade

me ha gustado la calidad de sonido y no me ha gustado el precio

Wat er fijn is, is dat de HiBy hardware instellingen zoals gain en amp mode direct vanuit het android menu te gebruiken zijn.Qobuz, Tidal en spotify werken er perfect op. Wel is het te adviseren om de tidal app uit de appstore te gebruiken en niet de voorgeinstalleerde versie.Voor het spelen van muzuik vanaf de sdcard, ben je gebonden aan de HiBy software. Andere als poweramp of fiio music, kan je wel installeren, hebben geen toegang tot de muziekbestanden.Opvallend is wel dat je zelfs voor een iem die ook gewoon op telefoons werkt, al de PO aansluiting moet gebruiken op medium gain voor een redelijk volume .Geluids kwaliteit is goed, maar als je bv fiio gewend ben is dit toch even wennen. Met standaard instellingen is het allemaal wat minder crisp en minder ruimtelijk.