HiBy R6 Pro II vs Sony NW-ZX707

Both are portable players, $750 against $898. 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 Sony NW-ZX707 on 550.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationHiBy R6 Pro IISony NW-ZX707
Power into 32Ω750 mW25 mW
Power into 150Ω280 mW5.3 mW
Power into 300Ω140 mW2.7 mW
Power into 600Ω70 mW1.3 mW
Output impedance0.6 Ω unverifiednot published
Output noise4 µV unverifiednot published
Price$750$898
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
566550

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

16 headphones reach 100 dB on the HiBy R6 Pro II but not on the Sony NW-ZX707 — Audio-Technica ATH-R70xa, Beyerdynamic DT 880 Edition (600Ω), Beyerdynamic DT 990 Edition (600Ω), 13 more.

550 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 Sony NW-ZX707. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.