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Cayin N8ii: The Incredible Tube Flagship Audio Player Officially Announced!!

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Cayin has finally pulled the drapes from its latest flagship digital audio player, meet the all-new Cayin N8ii. As the name states N8ii, it is a successor to their highly-acclaimed…
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Cayin has finally pulled the drapes from its latest flagship digital audio player, meet the all-new Cayin N8ii. As the name states N8ii, it is a successor to their highly-acclaimed almighty flagship N8 Digital Audio Player that came out a few years back. Cayin has completely renovated the whole architecture of the N8 digital player now featuring brand new ROHM DAC chips. The latest N8ii has dual KORG Nature 6P1 tubes supporting balanced tube amplification. Cayin is creating a benchmark with this latest N8ii reference digital audio player designed specifically for serious audio enthusiasts. Cayin N8ii will be available from 4th March 2022, priced at 3,499$.

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Cayin originally started the work on N8ii with the flagship AKM AK4499 DAC chipset. But due to the lack of AKM chipsets in the industry, they shifted the design to the latest ROHM DAC chips. The N8ii houses dual ROHM BD34301EKV DAC chips that are tuned and adjusted for top-tier performance. The N8ii supports high-resolution signal decoding with 32-Bit/768kHz PCM and native DSD512 decoding.

The main update with N8ii over its predecessor will be Balanced Tube Amplification. Previously on the N8 we only had the tube mode on single-ended output connections. But with the latest N8ii get tube love even with two KORG Nutube 6P1 tubes for a balanced tube interface. It has a fully-discrete fully balanced headphone amplifier circuit with dual amplification modes(Class A and Class AB). It also has dual Output modes, the Standard P mode, and the high-power P+ mode. The N8ii has 3.5mm and 4.4mm headphone ports with high-quality line-out support too.

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To keep the device up to date with today’s smart devices, Cayin has loaded the N8ii with Android 9 OS with Google Playstore pre-installed. You get the entire range of Android Applications available for you with the N8ii. Cayin has designed it with DTA)Direct Transfer Architecture) bypassing Android SRC ensuring Hi-Res playback for all applications. For a smooth user interface, we have got Octa-core Snapdragon 660 SoC with 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage. It has a MicroSD card supporting up to 1TB memory sticks.

Cayin N8ii will officially be released on 4th March 2022. It’s a top-tier product with a price tag of 3,499$. We sincerely hope this will be as successful and praised as the original N8.

Technical Specs:-

>DAC: ROHM BD34301x2.

>Vacuum Tube: KORG Nutube 6P1x2.

>Volume Control: JRC NJW1195A(4Channels).

>Bluetooth: BT V5.0 with UAT, LDAC, AAC, SBC, and more codecs support.

>Wi-Fi: 2.4G/5G Dual-band.

>Phone Out: 3.5mm(single-ended)+ 4.4mm(Balanced).

>Line-Out: 3.5mm(single-ended)+ 4.4mm(Balanced).

>Digital Interface: I2S, SPDIF, Coaxial(embedded), USB Audio(In & Out).

>Battery Life: Up to 11 hours.

>Display: 5”(1280×720) OLED display.

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