HiByR1 HiFi MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.1 Tidal Qobuz DSD PCM Lossless Music Player with Touchscreen/Hi Res Audio Certified/MSEB Tuning/2TB Expanded Memory

I am by no means an audiophile. I just want something portable that carries my music and sounds good. I had a Sandisk Clip+ and it was decent for a long time until the battery. I looked at a lot of other cheap DAPs but none of them looked good. So I descended the DAP rabbit hole and I was honestly surprised at how advanced and ming numbingly expensive they get. After a lot of back and forth I figured that Hiby was probably best for my needs and the R1 was entry level but still offered the quality I'm looking for.I'm very happy with my choice. First, it's very well made. The back and front are glass and the edge is a really pleasing clear plastic. It definitely doesn't feel cheap. It's small enough to be comfortably held in my palm, light but still has a reassuring weight to it. Buttons feel good and responsive.The display is crisp and clean, perfect for good looking album covers and an easy to read and use player interface. Everything loads up quickly enough. I mean there is a slight delay loading album images but I think that's got more to do with the size of the images I was using. I dropped everything to 800px and it's definitely faster to load.The menus and UI are intuitive and easy to navigate. It has a plethora of settings to customise. From the actual function to personalising playback. You have things like gapless and crossfade but the winner for me is MSEB. There is the usual EQ you'd expect but MSEB is just so much better to me. It just feels more intuitive and user friendly. I looked for some recommended MSEB settings online and tweaked it to my preference. The result is some beautiful sounding music across genres. It's like I'm hearing some of these tracks for the first time. The sound signature is gorgeous.I didn't think I'd use the soundstage slider but just opening it a little makes everything just sound more open and immersive.I haven't tried bluetooth because if I'm using a lossless player and made the effort to load lossless music I'm really not going to nuke that with Bluetooth. That's not to say I'll never use it. I'm sure there will be times that the convenience of using a BT speaker or headphones will be great. But for the rest of the time I'm using IEMs and that's really where I hear the quality of this player.Scanning the database for changes is reasonably fast and it scanned 6000 tracks in a couple of minutes. I really appreciate the sorting options available. You can find music by all tracks, artist, album or genre. You can search (although it took some getting used to the old cellphone style keyboard. Not a big deal though. I don't search enough to be any issue). You can also slide down the right side and scroll by letter. So this player really does make it convenient to navigate your collection and find your music.You can favorite tracks and there's a menu for favorites, recents, playlists, recently added or most played. Which I think is really great and those are common ways I tend to look for music in things like streaming apps. I haven't created any playlists yet but I'll likely build some mood based playlists over time.I haven't really tested the life of the battery but it does charge really quick on my PD charger and based on what I've seen so far I have no trouble believing it'll hit the quoted number and maybe more.Overall this has all the options I could need with nothing I don't. All in a high quality, compact device that plays some excellent sounding music.

Update: support email walked me through how to hard reset the device and that fixed it. Still not super durable or high quality so still only giving it 4 stars. But overall it's pretty good for the cost.Original review: Got it 6 months ago, it has worked well during that time but definitely feels cheaply made and not sturdy at all. Today I unplugged it from the charger and the screen flashed and now it's just rainbow lines flickering. There is no physical button force the device to restart. I am waiting for the battery to die to see if it will come back and I have emailed their support to see if there's anything that can be done, but a device shouldn't die just because you unplug it. At this point, I would not buy it again.

This is what I needed. I like to listen to music while in the gym, but as smartphones got bigger, it became annoying to carry those to the gym. So I made a little investment in this device and it turned out better than I expected. Sound quality is great, and there are a lot of options to customize it: how warm it is, equalization, gain, stage, etc. Pretty impressive for such an economic device. The OS it's just what the device needs, not too flamboyant, and it has a decent navigation speed. It is Bluetooth capable. It only charges with a cable, so that's good to me. The gapless playback is great, ideal to listen to records like live records or such as Dark Side of The Moon, which have seamless playback from song to song. The battery duration is pretty decent. As I said before, I use it in the gym (1.40 hours sessions) and I charge it every 3 or 4 days.TL,DR: best audio device for the price.

Estoy realmente decepcionada y arrepentida de haber comprado este reproductor de música. Especialmente por lo costoso que es, siento que arrojé el dinero a la basura.Lo conecté a la computadora mediante el USB para pasar los archivos de música al dispositivo, y cuando quise probar el sonido, resulta que ninguno de los archivos que pasé al reproductor existen en el dispositivo. Es como si nunca hubiese cargado nada en él.Volví a conectarlo a la computadora con intenciones de revisar la carpeta desde el explorador de archivos, pero de allí en adelante, mi computadora ya no reconoció más el dispositivo. Sí lo detecta, pero no me deja ingresar a él. Es como si fuese una conexión fantasma.Intenté de todo: Lo reinicié varias veces, cambié en Settings el modo de trabajo USB a "Dispositivo" (supuestamente este modo es para transferir archivos), extraje y volví a introducir la tarjeta SD, y nada. Nada funcionó.Además de eso, cuando intenté revisar los archivos desde el propio dispositivo como tal, además de no marcarme la existencia de ninguna canción, ni playlist, ni nada, me aparece un aviso anunciando que no detecta la tarjeta SD, como si no la tuviera, cuando claramente sí la tiene.Ahora tengo un aparato carísimo que no sirve para nada, y un gasto considerable totalmente en vano. Estoy total y profundamente decepcionada.Le escribí una queja a HiBy, detallando todo lo que me pasó con el producto. Realmente espero que contesten y me den alguna solución, o como mínimo, un reembolso. Porque esto no se puede quedar así.