{"id":143024,"date":"2022-03-15T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=143024"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:58:54","slug":"cayin-n8ii-portable-player-with-korg-nutube-triodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/cayin-n8ii-portable-player-with-korg-nutube-triodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cayin N8ii: Portable player with Korg Nutube triodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cayin N8ii\u00a0is an audio player based on Android 9, which means that it will be possible to install a wide variety of applications on it.\u00a0The interface is displayed on a 5-inch OLED display with a resolution of 1280&#215;720 pixels.\u00a0The system provides DTA bypass Android SRC and, of course, Hi-Res playback.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/177_techweek.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cayin bills the N8ii as &#8220;a digital device with reference level audio&#8221;, and for good reason.\u00a0On board is a Dual ROHM BD34301EKV DAC that supports PCM resolutions up to 32bit\/768kHz and DSD512.\u00a0The device is controlled by a Snapdragon 660 microcontroller. RAM is 6 GB LPDDR4X.\u00a0Built-in memory 128 GB can be supplemented with a card up to 1 TB.<\/p>\n<p>The volume control is a high-quality JRC NJW1195A (4 channels), after which a fully discrete balanced tube amplifier based on two KORG Nutube 6P1 double triodes is installed at the output.<\/p>\n<p>The circuit supports dual amplification mode (class A \/ class AB, optional).\u00a0The output signal can also be selected: P (standard) or P+ (high power) mode.\u00a0There are also two output connectors: unbalanced 3.5 mm and balanced 4.4 mm.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/178_techweek.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All this, including a 1000 mAh battery, is enclosed in an aluminum case, milled from a monolithic billet.\u00a0The size of Cayin N8ii is 147 x 77.5 x 25 mm, and the weight is slightly less than 450 g.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CayinAudio\/posts\/1267490893662134\">Cayin N8ii SRP DAC player<\/a> costs $3,500.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cayin N8ii\u00a0is an audio player based on Android 9, which means that it will be possible to install a wide variety of applications on it.\u00a0The interface is displayed on a 5-inch OLED display with a resolution of 1280&#215;720 pixels.\u00a0The system provides DTA bypass Android SRC and, of course, Hi-Res playback. Cayin bills the N8ii as [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/cayin-n8ii-portable-player-with-korg-nutube-triodes\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":143025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-143024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoreviewer.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}