HiBy R6 Pro II vs HiBy R8 II

Both are portable players, $750 against $1999. 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 HiBy R8 II on 565.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationHiBy R6 Pro IIHiBy R8 II
Power into 32Ω750 mW225 mW
Power into 150Ω280 mW48 mW
Power into 300Ω140 mW24 mW
Power into 600Ω70 mW12 mW
Output impedance0.6 Ω unverified1 Ω
Output noise4 µV unverified3.2 µV
Price$750$1999
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
566565

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 HiBy R8 II — 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: HiBy R6 Pro II and HiBy R8 II. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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