Background of N5ii
This is Cayin’sfirst second generation DAP. The original N5 was launch back in July 2015. It offeredbest of class audio performance at its price sector and was an immediate hitamong audiophiles.
Cayin has startedto revamp the N5 back in late 2016, We decided to keep thebalanced driven 2.5mm headphone output and dual TF card slots, and most important, to keep it as compact aspossible. We have also modernized the N5 by making it our second Android DAP, with Google Play build-in and full networking capability. The N5ii will definitely become Cayin’s high price/performance workhorse for the advanced user and serious music lovers.
Innovative Features
- Improve User experience: N5iiis based on a fully customised Android 5.1with HiBy Music Player as our native player. Itoffersthe most pleasant user experience while enjoying high quality music.The N5ii is also extremely compact, it is 14% smaller and 23% lighter then the original N5 but thescreen is 50% larger and offer 2.6 times more pixels.
- Support WiFi, DLNA, Cloub Music and 3rdparty applications: N5iisupports2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n WiFi, user can download applicationsfrom Google Play, listentomusic from DropBox, or access music files from NAS or networkeddevice thorugh Samba/DLNA. With N5ii, user can listen to music whereever they want and whenever they like.
- Comprehensive headphoneamplification and output:N5ii employesquadruple circuit to facilitate differentialaudio amplification. When pair with 2.5mm TRRS balanced headphone, N5ii will offerimpressive handling capability andsignificantly improved seperation and dynamic over 3.5mm single ended headphone output.
- Audio Priority(AP)mode:tomaximize the audio performance foraudioenthaustiant, Cayin hascreated the Audi Priority modeby turning off all networking and wireless (BT) functions, shut down all third party applications and optimized the Android system by keeping the bare-bone audio-related functions only. Detail operation of the AP mode is yet to defined.
- Fully integrated Type C USB Connection:N5ii is equiped with a USB2.0 type C connector, Cayin hasintegradedcharging, data transfer, digital input and output into one connection. The Type C conenctor is secure, robust, and bi-directional, its is easy to use and is bocoming the standard interfence of modern mobile devices.
- Versatile and Expandable, come with a genuine 2Vrms desktop grade line out (bypass headphone amplification circuit, shared with 3.5mm headphone connector), S/PDIF coaxial (via USB Type C) and USB-Audio digital output, allow user to connect N5ii to wide range of audio devices such as DAC, amplifier and active speakers.
- Wireless audio throught BT connection: i5 supports Bluetooth V4.0,youcan connect with bluetooth audio devices such as speakers and heaphone and use N5ii as your wireless music player.
HardwareHighlights
- Based on 28nm technology, Rockchip RK3188 is a high performance dedicated 2D processor that adopts quad-core ARM Cortex A9 up to 1.6GHz and quad-core Mali-400MP4 GPU.
- The digital circuit of N5ii is designed around the ess9018K2M, supporting Hi-Res PCM upto 64Bit/384kHz
- On top of common PCM based lossless format, N5ii can hardware decodes DSD64 and DSD128 (including DST encoded) and it can read SACD ISO directly.
- The analogue section for headphone output: two reference grade OPA1652 for I/V-convertor, and 3 pieces of OPA1622 for LPF and single-ended/balanced amplification.
- N5ii deploys one piece of OPA1652 to deliver independent, high quality line out
- To achieve musicality, we need to free from digital artifact as much as possible and that imply a design with lowest possible jitter. N5ii deploys THREE high precision active oscillator at 49.152MHz, 45.1584MHz, 100MHz, handle sampling frequency for 44.1kHz multiply, 48kHz multiply and DSD signal.
- 32GB internal storage plus two TF cards supporting upto 256BG each, offers maximum 544GB portable music capacity. If this is not enough, you can add more storage to N5ii via OTG of USB connector as 2TB M.2 SSD is technically feasible.
- 3.65” 845x480 TFT touch screen, provide modish man machine interface to fully explore the potential of Android interface
- The main chassis is CNC out of aluminum alloy
