First look 31 Hiby R4: The Most Value for Money Android DAP

[@Srootus]

Ive had one since launch and while im mostly happy with it, i do take notice of the toastyness of it when running the 4.4mm, not worryingly toasty, but "Oo, thats quiet warm" toasty, i dont think its such of an issue but hopefuly it doesnt affect the health of the battery long term

[@VeerMaharaj]

So a lot of reviewers seem to ignore the aspect of syncing music to the player. The reason a lot of us get a DAP is to roll our own music collection.
In a lot of cases, syncing from a program like MusicBee over USB MTP to my phone works pretty well. But syncing to these DAPs' SD Cards can be problematic.
It would be nice if you covered syncing a couple short playlists to the memory card as part of the review. That way we can avoid the players that give those problems. Particularly because devices like these almost never get software updates to remedy stuff like that.

[@WillA-wf4uu]

I think Ibasso dx180 sound better where overall presentation is transparent, extended, and clean, natural warmth as well as equipped with Android 13 system. Do hope you got chance to review it as well.

[@ZPProductions]

I actually tried the DX180 together with this. I remember the DX180 has a more focused sound while this is a little more dispersed with a bigger soundstage. I don't find the dx180 any better in other ways through my U12T. Hiby R4 is about 1/2 the price though haha.

[@WillA-wf4uu]

@@ZPProductions yea, DX180 have a silent background giving sense of bigger soundstage and very clean sounding. Maybe this cause its not match with clean sounding IEM like U12T.

[@teamlulquit]

idk if I saw it wrong but the DX180 is 2x more expensive than this...

[@ZPProductions]

@@teamlulquit yup. The dx180 is twice the price.

[@solrq8349]

please review their flagship RS8 it has a very good resolving R2R DAC and i heard the synergy with the enleum hpa-23rm is magical am planning to get both as transportable stack

[@ZPProductions]

U tried the RS8 before. Versus the SE300 from AK it felt quite similar, with a touch more body I feel. Didn't try it as a stack though and Enleum is very good with anything that needs more weight and power to the sound haha

[@marekkordzik7517]

I can get R4 and ibasso dx170 for similar money. Which one would you recommend ?

[@ZPProductions]

I think they are similar. Maybe a very very slight more detail in dx170

[@Gallius_Gamez]

I wanted to ask that with apple music android resamples the audio, does the hiby r4 bypass the resampling when playing from apple music

[@teamlulquit]

there is a plugin that may help you at keeping the sample rate.

[@Gallius_Gamez]

@teamlulquit ??

[@Musicophile-p5l]

Its cheaper than many high end as dongles, ans it has a display an runs Android.

[@ZPProductions]

Exactly haha

[@edisonsayson]

Can it play movies?

[@ZPProductions]

It does TH-cam

[@edisonsayson]

Have you tried it with vlc?

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

@@edisonsayson it’s android, so basically it can run any player from PlayStore

[@sav8]

itself