I have the R3 Pro since pre order. It came with leather case, which is beautiful, and SD card. It is my first DAP. I have a bit mixed opinion. The sound is fairly good. My OPPO PM 3 sound gorgeous balanced, plenty of juice. Thing I donāt like is the UI, can be laggy. The Bluetooth is a hit and miss on my one. When I set it on UAT, which is a Hiby in house development and pair it with the Hiby W5, it doesnāt work. I have to go to a lower codex. The Bluetooth drops out, if I move the player in my pocket or cross body bag on my back. It has to stay very close to the BT earphone. Tried different BT amps. But for the price I donāt complain to much. It was enough to get me hooked on good sounding music. Next upgrade is in sight (Cayin N6ii very likely).
Great thing to be able to read about different opinions and views in regards to music. 
Hi,
I also have same device.
Have you upgraded the firmware, there have been a a couple since release?
What headphones are you running on them?
I have had the Hiby R3 Pro for about a week now, and enjoy using it. It took awhile to understand the UI and figure how to configure things, plus trying out the various featuresā¦ everything seems to work as promised. I purchased it with a 254GB card, and that was enough to transfer over everything I have with room to spare. Really, the only thing I couldnāt figure out was using my first gen AirPods over Bluetoothā¦ it works, but the volume is very low, and I can find no way to turn it up. It worked fine with my Fiil Canviis BT headphones, though. I also began trial subscriptions to both Tidal and Qobuzā¦ they both work (though intermittently), but havenāt decided whether to keep either. Of course, now that Iāve tried everything out, Iāll likely use it with my Yaxi-padded Koss Porta Pros (and now Koss 30i, too) 99% of the time.
I believe I can safely consider selling my iPod Classic now. 
Thanks for your response. Yes, I did the updates. Headphone is OPPO PM 3 which sounds very good. I had the RHA CL2, wasnāt very happy sound wise. I couldnāt get a good fit at all. I had to jam the earphones right down my ear canal. Very uncomfortable. I tried also tons of different tips. Luckily the right earpiece stopped working during warranty, so I could return them. Just got the Kinera Idun. Very happy with them so far. Much better fit and seal.
Back to the R3 Pro. I have lots of high res files like 24 bit and 192 khz. So I neither can utilise the MSEB nor the EQ. UI is ok once you are used to it.
Later in the year I want to go for a very serious upgrade. Probably the new A & K SP 2000. Only draw back for me so far is the 2.5 mm balanced output, rather than a 4.4 mm.
Thanks again for the conversation.
Well, no sooner did I get my plain 'ol Hiby R3 Pro when theyāre already planning to release their Pro Pro:
I donāt really thing you are missing out tbh, they mainly just swapped the Cirrus dac for an ESS dac, not a big deal, my personal preference leans towards their Cirrus implementation anyways
They also increased power by 25% and sacrificed about 1 hour of battery life in both single-ended and balanced, so thereās also difference in power section as well.
Didnāt notice that, thanks for pointing it out
Ye I was considering buying this DAP even without that upgrade because it checks pretty much all of my needs which is basically to have all functionality and be better than my X3 II. Saber one looks even better with slightly more power and ESS DACs. Literally every single person Iāve asked said that only iPods have good CS implementation.
From my experience the hiby stuff does do a good job with their cs implementations, but would be curious to see what they do with the ess dacs, I feel like the redesign on the amp would do more than the dac change but idk
I might have to wait to see differences in both the HiBY r3 pros then as I was looking at getting one
Until today, the Hiby R3 Pro was working well with everythingā¦ I subscribe to Qobuz, and today when I tried to listen to a playlist, I got an error message that reads:
HTTP error code:400
Bad request
I have tried logging in and out of both my WiFi and my Qobuz account, but nothing seems to work. The weird thing is that Qobuz shows all the cover artā¦ even when I click on something newā¦ it just wonāt play anything. Internet radio still works okay, though, so I assume thereās nothing wrong with my WiFi setup. Iām guessing somethingās changed, either at Qobuz or Hiby, thatās causing the problem.
I have contacted MusicTeck (the seller through Amazon) for help, but thought Iād ask whether anyone else is experiencing this.
Thanks!
Okay, after fiddling around, I discovered what the problem was. Somehow, the time and date settings for the Hiby were lost, and after setting the proper date and time again in system settings, Qobuz worked again.
I purchased an R3 Pro Saber recently and have been playing with it for the past several days. The main reason I opted for this DAP over other options was to use it as a Bluetooth transmitter which could handle all of the advanced Bluetooth codecs, in addition to the high quality internal DAC and WiFi connection and streaming features (Tidal, Qobuz, AirPlay) included.
My primary goal was/is to improve the sound quality (if possible) of two of my Bluetooth portable speaker set-ups, the DiamondBoxx Model L and Minirig 3ās. Iāve always used Apple products since the invention of the smart phone many years ago. Never owned an Android based product, and as such where Bluetooth is concerned have always been stuck with either the SBC or AAC codecs. In an evolving tech world that now includes higher resolution Bluetooth such as AptX HD and LDAC, I had to find out what I might be missing out on.
I started by researching small Bluetooth receiver and transmitter products that could āimproveā my DiamondBoxx sound. The DiamondBoxxās internal Bluetooth receiver handles SBC and AptX (no HD) only. There are a number of cheap receiver/transmitter products available on Amazon that can handle the better codecs, but then you are also stuck with whatever crappy internal DAC they might be using. Not really a great way to improve your sound.
This led me to the various Bluetooth products from Shanling, FiiO, and Hiby, etc. I ended up going with the FiiO M5 to use as my Bluetooth receiver, as itās tiny form factor allows me to attach it discreetly right onto the DiamondBoxx. Itās AKM chip DAC and ability to receive LDAC, AptX HD, AptX, AAC, and SBC truly was an upgrade to the DiamondBoxxās internals and in fact did improve itās sound quality.
For a Bluetooth transmitter, I selected the Hiby R3 Pro Saber. This is perhaps overkill for itās intended purpose as this little device sounds really really good as a music player on itās own. Iāve been listening to it with my Nighthawks, FiiO FH7s, Elegiaās, and Sendy Aivaās through both the 3.5 mm single-ended and 2.5 mm balanced headphone jacks. As you might expect using the balanced jack yields the best results. For the Aivaās I need to adjust the gain setting from low to high, but even without fooling around with any type of EQ this player sounds terrific with all of these cans.
I intend to connect the R3 Pro to my iPod Touch (where all of my content is storedā¦ yes I know the Pro has a micro SD slot, but I use streaming services and save content for offline use which you cannot do on the R3 Pro) using itās USB DAC feature. I can then transmit music coming out of the iPod into the R3 Pro via LDAC Bluetooth to the FiiO M5, and enjoy the highest resolution Bluetooth with my DiamondBoxx player. Pretty cool.
If you are thinking about simply upgrading to an external DAC to use with your smart phone, you could spend $200 on a Dragonfly Red, or for about the same money you could get the Hiby R3 Pro Saber with better (imo) sound quality and much more versatility. For me, that choice is a no-brainerā¦
The R3 Pro has has also the Hiby developed UAT codec. Use it with the W5 and you are set for a treat. W5 has only 3.5mm output though.
I actually selling both, as I am upgrading to a more powerful dap/dac.
If anyone is interested?
R3 Pro comes with leather case and 32 GB SD card.
How is the bluetooth performance on this? I was really interested on picking this up, but I mainly listen to music with spotify. I canāt seem to find a list of app supported by the R3 Pro, but Iāve seen some reviews saying that spotify isnāt supported.
Nope itās not. To use Spotify, one would need a DAP with full android capabilities so that they can download Spotify on either the Goggle Play Store or as an APK.
Felix
Good Morning,
I am interested in buying this DAP, I thought that you could connect the spotify application from the mobile phone to the DAP and be able to listen to the sound with the bluethooth headphones.
Is this possible?
Thanks for the answers
As far as I know the R3Pro has Wifi and streaming capabilities so you could tether it to your phone and then use the BT to your BT headset?..Maybe some else can give a more definitive answer 
I have the Hiby r3 Pro. You can use it as a bluetooth receiver from your phone and listen wired to the Hiby. Youāll have to control play/pause and next/previous track from your phone though. Hope that helps