Cayin N3 Ultra vs HiBy R6 Pro II

Both are portable players, $649 against $750. This page puts them side by side on the only three things a maker can be held to — power, output impedance and noise — and then asks the question that actually matters: which headphones do they treat differently?

The HiBy R6 Pro II reaches 100 dB on 566 of the 567 models here, the Cayin N3 Ultra on 565.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationCayin N3 UltraHiBy R6 Pro II
Power into 32Ω250 mW750 mW
Power into 150Ω53 mW280 mW
Power into 300Ω27 mW140 mW
Power into 600Ω13 mW70 mW
Output impedance0.5 Ω0.6 Ω unverified
Output noisenot published4 µV unverified
Price$649$750
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
565566

A figure marked not published is missing from the maker’s own material, which is not the same as being good or bad. Where one of these two publishes a number and the other does not, the comparison on that axis cannot be made at all — and saying so is more useful than guessing.

The headphones that tell them apart

1 headphone reaches 100 dB on the HiBy R6 Pro II but not on the Cayin N3 Ultra — Moondrop PARA.

565 of the 567 models here reach 100 dB on both. That is a power count and nothing more; whether either source suits a given headphone also depends on the two lines above.

Both pages in full

Each has a page of its own with a full headphone list and the provenance of every figure — worth opening here, because HiBy R6 Pro II has published no electrical specification at all and everything above comes from independent measurement: Cayin N3 Ultra and HiBy R6 Pro II. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.