Cayin i5 Master Quality Digital Audio Player

Sounds and looks great, but software is buggy. The main issue for me is that the stock player doesn't play perfectly gapless, so if you listen to a lot of live albums, classical music or concept albums, music has a very short but annoying clic between songs. To avoid this gapless bug, you can use alternative softwares like Onkyo HF Player, but you loose the ability to play hi-res files directly from the player, while you can still play hi-res connecting the i5 to an external DAC, like Chord Mojo.The player strong point is sound quality, very clear and smooth, has also a powerful output so it's able to drive difficult headphones.If i could, i would rate it 3.5 stars, but i can't, so i'm putting 4 stars mainly for design and sound quality.

To go along with all of the other positive reviews, the additional joy for me is the ability to hook the Cayin i5 to a network device (in my case, the Cocktail Audio x10) and then play music directly from there.I've bought mainly Cowon devices over the past few years (sort of hooked on the Jet Effect settings and fabulous sound the goes with Cowon) with the Plenue M being the only one I have left (all others have since gone now I have the i5). In comparison to what I'm personally used to, I think the i5 is great, fabulous build, the volume knob is very much something that stands out re usability, add to that LAN access, Bluetooth (which I've had no issues with), the ability to add other apps, and using the custom settings, the sound is very impressive pound for pound. If you can pick this up lower than list price (mine was supplied as an "open box" item via the great guys up in Edinburgh) I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised indeed.

Sound excellent, excellent body. SW contains errors, unstable. DNLA support only where not see .flac files. Missing SMB protocol. Direct lacking enter the IP address of the NAS.

Gute Qualität und guter Sound, langsamer Android, Batterie geht schnell zu ende, dauert mehrere Stunden aufzuladen

Ricevuto come regalo per il mio compleanno lo ho abbinato ad auricolare onemore. Il suono che si ottiene e' ottimo molto musicale con alti non aspri. Direi che e' un suono molto analogico.E' dotato inoltre di uscita cuffie ed uscita per collegarlo ad un amplificatore o all'impianto dell'auto.Inoltre la l'ingresso USB puo' essere utilizato come digital out acquistando un cavo dedicato della cayin. In questo modo e' possibile leggere i file attraverso un DAC esterno.Unica limitazione per chi ha una grande discoteca e' il solo slot sd limitato a 200GB. Si puo' sopperire inserendo nella USB chiavette, ma di sicuro meno pratico.Consigliatissimo soprattutto per la qualita' audio

Il Cayin i5 é arrivato un giorno in anticipo grazie al sempre impeccabile servizio di Amazon,ma finisce qui,perche l'apparecchio tanto desiderato non funziona perché non si accende.cercavo di caricare la batteria tramite il cavo usb/caricatore ma non cé niente da fare.Peccato. l'ho fatto immediatamente il reso di questo prodotto