Cayin N5 MK2S User manual

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V1.0-20180925

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Table of Content
1. Introduction to N5 MK2S............................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1Packaging and Accessories.................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2Control and Operation.......................................................................................................................................... 3
1.3Connect to other devices...................................................................................................................................... 4
1.4 Power Management.............................................................................................................................................5
2. Add Music Files to Player............................................................................................................................................... 5
3. Listen to Music............................................................................................................................................................... 6
3.1Select Music Files.................................................................................................................................................. 6
3.2 Playback.............................................................................................................................................................7
4. Networking Tools........................................................................................................................................................... 9
4.1 WiFi & BT....................................................................................................................................................... 9
4.2 Private Cloud....................................................................................................................................................... 9
5. Third-Party Applications...............................................................................................................................................10
5.1Installation package.............................................................................................................................................10
5.2 Google play..................................................................................................................................................... 11
5.3Uninstall application............................................................................................................................................11
6. Music Settings and System Settings.............................................................................................................................11
6.1Music Settings..................................................................................................................................................... 11
6.2System Settings................................................................................................................................................... 12
7. USB DAC....................................................................................................................................................................... 12
8. Firmware Update......................................................................................................................................................... 13
9. Safety Information........................................................................................................................................................13
9.1Product safety..................................................................................................................................................... 13
9.2 Battery Safety..................................................................................................................................................... 13
10. Disclaimer...................................................................................................................................................................13
11. Trouble Shooting........................................................................................................................................................13
12. Specifications............................................................................................................................................................. 14
** This function might not be available due to regulation or limitation of different region/countries.

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1. Introduction to N5 MK2S
1.1 Packaging and Accessories
The Cayin N5 MK2S Digital Audio Player comes with the following accessories in the package.
Please check carefully and make sure everything is in place. Please contact our distributors if any
accessory is missing.
Cayin N5 MK2S Master Quality Digital Audio Player x 1
Type-C USB Cable x 1
Quick User Guide (attached with Warranty Card and QA Certificate) x 1
Tempered Glass Protective Screen x 1 (pre-applied on LCD screen)
Protective screen for back panel x 1 (pre-applied on back panel)
Hi-Res Audio label x 2
N5 MK2S Protective Case x1
1.2 Control and Operation

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1) Power On/Off : Turn on or off the device when pressed for 2 second, can also be used to light
up or turn off screen (Lockup) when clicked.
2) Balanced Headphone Output: Designed to work with 2.5mm TRRS balanced headphone with
impedance ranged from 8 ohm to 300 ohm
3) Line Out/ Headphone Out:
Headphone Out - designed to work with regular 3.5mm non-balanced headphone with
impedance ranged from 8 ohm to 300 ohm
Line out - output analogue signal with regular 3.5mm analogue audio cable to external
amplifier for power amplification. Output level is fixed and cannot be altered by volume
control of the player.
4) Volume: rotate clockwise to increase or counter-clockwise to decrease volume output.
5) Previous: select and playback previous track at playback menu, or hold to rewind from current
playback, and release the button to resume playback at designated location.
6) Play/Pause/Stop: click to confirm selection and start to play selected file at playlist, or click to
play or pause at playback screen.
7) Next: select and playback next track at playback menu, or hold to fast forward from current
playback, and release the button to resume playback at designated location.
8) TF Card Slot 1: accommodate one TF card up to 400GB
9) TF Card Slot 2: accommodate one TF card up to 400GB
10) USB/SPDIF Port: With the provided USB Type-C cable, you can transfer data, use the DAP as an
USB DAC by connecting the device to a computer, or charge up the device when connect to an
external charger (not provided). The player can also output S/PDIF signal to outboard
decoder devices through this port, but that will require a special Type-C to coaxial cable
(purchased separately)
11) Back/Home: Click once to go back one step, hold to go back main screen directly.
12) LCD Touch Screen
13) Charging Indicator ：will flash while charging, and remain always-on when charging is
completed.
(When the DAP is turned on the first time, the system will go through a initialization process, this
will take around 3 minutes, please wait patiently and do not operate the player until the process is
completed.)
1.3 Connect to other devices
1) Unbalanced Headphone: Insert the 3.5mm connector of your unbalanced earphone or
headphone to the shared line out/headphone output port at the top of the player.
2) Balanced Headphone: Insert the 2.5mm connector of your balanced earphone or headphone
to the balanced headphone output port at the top of the player.
3) Line Out: connect your audio equipment to the shared line out/headphone output port at the
top of the player with an appropriate analogue audio cable.
4) Computer: connecting N5 MK2S to a computer via an USB Type C cable to copy, paste, and
delete data file from internal storage or TF card. Please make sure the process is completed
before you disconnect the player from the computer
5) Memory Card: Insert a TF card into the TF card slot 1 or 2 (upto 400GB), N5 MK2S will detect
the card automatically.
6) OTG: Connect an external USB storage with Type C interface or cable to the USB port, N5 MK2S

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can copy or play the file in the storage directly.
7) USB Audio: N5 MK2S can output USB Audio signal and connect to an USB DAC device for
outboard digital audio conversion, or it can accept an USB Audio source (such as a computer)
and function as an USB DAC.
8) S/PDIF: Connect to external audio device with coaxial input via a Type C to Coaxial S/PDIF
cable.
1.4 Power Management
1) The device will start to charge up the battery when you connect the device to a USB charger or
the USB port of a computer via USB cable (as supplied). The battery installed in the device is
rated at 3000mAH (3.8V), it will take around 3.5 hours to completely charge up by a 2.0A
charger
2) We recommend our customer to use high quality charger with N5 MK2S because inferior
charger might introduced high risk in the long run. Please charge up the battery at room
temperature. Charging at very high or low temperature might cause battery failure during
the charging process. When N5 MK2S is connected to a USB charger, it can play music while
charging is in progress. If N5 MK2S is connected to an USB port of a computer and charging,
the player will stop playing music.
3) Charging Recommendation: Appropriate battery care can extend the lifetime of the battery
and the player. Lithium Polymer battery does not have memory effect, it can be charged
regardless of its current capacity, given that it has no negative effect in its performance. Fully
discharging and charging the battery repeatedly is not recommended. If the battery have
been used without a complete full discharge after a very long period, it might result in
inaccurate gauge and lead to incorrect battery capacity estimation, a full discharge followed by
a full charge immediately will calibrate the gauge.
2. Add Music Files to Player
You can add music file to the Digital Audio Player by one of the following methods.
1. Internal Storage: Set the USB mode of the player to MTP, connect the N5 MK2S player to a
compute with an appropriate USB cable, and copy music files to a subfolder (normally by the
name of Music) at the internal storage (32GB).
2. Expandable Storage: Copy the music files to a TF card and insert the TF card into either Slot 1 or
Slot 2 of the side panel of the N5 MK2S player.
3. OTG Storage: Insert an external storage device to the Type-C Connector at the bottom of N5 MK2S
with appropriate cable, copy music file to Internal Storage or Expandable Storage, or playback the
music files on the OTG storage directly.
4. Streaming: Turn on Wifi and connect N5 MK2S to Internet, install appropriate third party
applications (such as Tidal or Spotify), playback or download music from subscribed streaming
service.
5. Networking: Turn on WiFi and connect N5 MK2S to a LAN, playback or download music from NAS
or shared folder of connected computer facilities.

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3. Listen to Music
3.1 Select Music Files
N5 MK2S organizes music files according to folder, album, artist, genre, and tracks, you can
browse through your music resource according to your favorite pattern.
1) Folder: This is the default home screen showing the total and available capacity of all the local
storage options. Click to select the storage you want to playback from and N5 MK2S will display
the folders and files on the storage in a hierarchal listing.
2) Album: A thumbnail display of all albums according to the Album Art recognized by N5 MK2S,
with number of files collected under this album.
3) Artist: All music is sorted by artist with number of music file available, when click into an artist,
the player will present the music files according to albums in thumbnail display;
4) Genre: All music is sorted in accordance with the different genres, and shows number of music
file available under each genre, when click into a genre, the music files will show in alphabetic
order of Track Title;
5) Tracks: All music file is sorted in alphabetic order of Track Title.
Note: With the exception of Folder category, all other four categories will required a Music Scan
from Application Menu before the information can be displayed correctly.
Status Bar, with the
following icon from
left to right:
1. Volume
2. Current Volume
Value
3. Gain Setting
4. Connected to PC
5. Playing Now
6. Bluetooth
7. Line Out
8. Phone Out
9. WIFI
10. Battery capacity
11. Battery status
12. Time

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3.2 Playback
1) Choice of three Playback Themes：
Equalizer
Playlist
Add to New playlist
or Favorite
Wipe left and right
to switch among
Album art, lyrics,
and VU Meter
Next Tracks
Playback progress
bar: click or drag to
jump to desired
playback position.
Play/pause
Select playback
mode：Play Once,
Repeat Current,
Repeat All, Shuffle.
Previous track
Select from three
different playback
themes

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2) Choice of three playback effect: Album Art, Lyrics, VU Meter
3) Equalizer
N5 MK2S comes with eight pre-set EQ: Dance, Pop, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Metal, Classic, and Vocals,
you can click the appropriate icon to enable any one of these preset EQ. You can also click
“Custom” to customize the 10-bands equalizer settings by yourself. The EQ screen will only
show 5 bands at a time, you can wipe left or right to display another 5 bands.

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4) Add to
Add tracks to new playlist or favorite
4. Networking Tools
4.1 WiFi & BT
You can connect N5 MK2S to Bluetooth device and enjoy your music in wireless. Bluetooth
device must be paired with N5 MK2S in advance, please refer to the electronic version User
Manual for more details. You can also select the WiFi icon on the status bar to connect N5 MK2S
to WiFi for streaming or networked music resources.
Note: the WiFi of N5 MK2S doesn’t support channel 14 (2.484GHz) of 2.4GHz band.
4.2 Private Cloud
Click the LAN button, the player can search, browse and playback the music files stored on the NAS
or shared folder of connected computer facilities.
WIFI Connection
Bluetooth Connection

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5. Third-Party Applications
N5 MK2S support third party applications, user can download and install applications as they need.
Please be reminded that this DAP is a fully-customized Android device, it is fundamentally different
from generic Android mobile device as a lot of features such as Camera and Contact List are not
available, hence might cause malfunction in a lot of applications. Some applications might introduce
background tasks that will affect the performance of the DAP. For these reasons we recommend user
paid special attention to the instruction and purpose of the third party applications before installation.
5.1 Installation package
1) Download the installation package of the third party application, normally suffix with xxx.apk,
and copy the file to the internal storage or TF card of the player.
2) Sweep from the left side of Main screen to bring out the Application Menu, select Third Party
Applications
3) Select ES File Explorer, specify the location of the installation package.
4) Select the installation package, complete the installation process as instructed. The
application icon will display in Third Party Applications at end of installation.

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5.2 Google play
1) Make sure the player has connected to Internet through WiFi. Sweep from the left side of
Main screen to bring out the Application Menu, select Third Party Applications
2) Select Google Play, you can search and install application at the main screen, , the application
icon will display in Third Party Applications at end of installation.
3) If you have not used Google Play in this device before, you will be required to enter your
Google account and password. If you do not have a Google account, please create one with
other mobile/computer device.
4) Google Play will guide you through the setup process for first time user. We recommend you
to uncheck “Keep this phone backed up with my Google Account” and “Keep me up to date
with news and offers from Google Play” when asked, and complete the complete the Google
Play setup by select “Accept”. You should arrive at Google Play at the end of setup process.
Note: This function might not be available due to regulation or limitation of different
region/countries.
5.3 Uninstall application
1) Sweep from the left side of Main screen to bring out the Application Menu, select Third Party
Applications
2) Select and hold the application that you want to remove, system will pop up uninstall icon to
start the process.
6. Music Settings and System Settings
6.1 Music Settings

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6.2 System Settings
7. USB DAC
The concept behind USB DAC of N5 MK2S is to setup the player as an external sound card of a
computer. Using N5 MK2S to playback the music file in your computer should provide improved
audio performance, and you can control the volume at N5 MK2S. Please be reminded that N5 MK2S
is designed to optimize audio performance, therefore audio data are transmitted from computer to N5
MK2S in asynchronous mode, this will cause synchronization problem with the video signal of the
computer.
Installed N5 MK2S to your iOS, Linux and Window based computer should be a self-directed process,
but you need to install a device driver before you can use it properly in Windows XP/vista (32 bit) or
Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 (32/64 bits) based system. Please download the required device driver at
Click to open System
Settings

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www.cayin.cn
8. Firmware Update
Cayin will release new firmware as needed to improve and optimize the function of N5 MK2S. Please
follow the instructions of the firmware released by www.cayin.cn to complete the firmware upgrade
procedure.
9. Safety Information
9.1 Product safety
1) Do not place heavy objects on top of the device, this may cause damage or malfunction to the
device
2) Do not place the device near anything can disperse strong magnetic field
3) In case of damaging the device, please:
a) Do not use this device in highly moisturized environment.
b) Do not drop or hit the device and its accessories with hard force.
c) Do not use the device in dusty or smoky environment.
d) Do not use chemical solvents or detergents to clean the device.
e) Do not use the device at thunderstorm.
4) Do not attempt to disassemble the device, this may cause damage and void the warranty
9.2 Battery Safety
Do not place the unit in a fire or attempt to heat up the device, this may cause the battery to explode
If you notice the battery of the device displace high temperature, please stop using the device
immediately, otherwise it may damage the device (Note: If you need to replace your battery, you
must use the same or equivalent battery only. Improper battery replacement might lead to
explosion)
10. Disclaimer
The manufacturer, distributor, importer and reseller will not responsible for any damage caused by
improper usage or operation of this product, including accidental or human damage. The user
manual is a documentation of the product based on the specification at the time of print. Cayin
reserved the right to change product specification without prior notice. Cayin might include
additional features or introduce new technologies subsequently. All specification or function might
subject to change without prior notice. Under no circumstances will manufacturer, importer and
reseller responsible for loss of data as a result of using this product.
11. Trouble Shooting
Symptom
Explanation
Remedial Action
Unable to turn on
The battery is too low to be
powered on
Charge the battery and try to turn on again.
If the battery has drained at very low level,
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the DAP light up its screen again.
Power off suddenly
when battery reading
is not too low
inaccurate gauge and lead to
incorrect battery capacity
estimation
calibrate the gauge of the battery by
performing a full discharge followed by a
full charge immediately
No sound from
headphones
Volume in too low
Adjust the volume to a suitable position
The headphone is damaged or
bad connections
Change the headphone, make sure all
cables are firmly connected
Output level of the music file is
too low
Play other music files to verify whether this
is a file-based problem
Unable to display
filename
The player does not support
the file format or music file has
been broken.
Please crosscheck with the acceptable file
format support by the player or playback
other music files
Filename has no suffix
Happened occasionally when
parsing from an inappropriate
Cue file
Edit cue file
File playback error
Music file in TF card might have
been removed or deleted,
causing the playback error
Update music library
USB DAC cannot be
recognized
The driver has not been
installed or setup properly
PC music playback software has
not designated this device as
playback output
Install appropriate USB Audio driver and
select N5 MK2S as system output device at
your music playback software on your
computer
System Halt
Hold on the Power button to restart the
player
12. Specifications
Specifications
Phones Out
(Single-ended)
Power rating
150mW+150mW (@32Ω)
Frequency Response
20Hz-20kHz (±0.2dB, Fs=192kHz)
5Hz-50kHz (±1dB, Fs=192kHz)
THD+N
0.002% (1kHz, Fs=44.1kHz; 20Hz-20kHz,A-Weighted)
Dynamic Range
116dB (20Hz-20kHz,A-Weighted)
SNR
116dB (20Hz-20kHz,A-Weighted)
Chanel Separation
76dB
Output Impedance
≤0.4Ω
Phones Out
Power rating
250mW+250mW (@32Ω)
Frequency Response
20Hz-20kHz (±0.2dB, Fs=192kHz)
5Hz-50kHz (±1dB, Fs=192kHz)
THD+N
0.002% (1kHz, Fs=44.1kHz; 20Hz-20kHz,A-Weighted)
Dynamic Range
117dB (20Hz-20kHz,A-Weighted)

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SNR
117dB (20Hz-20kHz,A-Weighted)
Chanel Separation
92dB
Output Impedance
≤0.6Ω
Line Out
Output Level
2.0V (@47kΩ)
Frequency Response
20Hz-20kHz (±0.2dB, Fs=192kHz),
5Hz-50kHz (±1dB, Fs=192kHz)
THD+N
0.003% (1kHz, Fs=44.1kHz; 20Hz-20kHz, A-Weighted)
Dynamic Range
116dB (20Hz-20kHz, A-Weighted)
SNR
116dB (20Hz-20kHz, A-Weighted)
Imp. Matching
≥10kΩ (suggested)
USB DAC
USB Mode
Asynchronized USB Audio 2.0 Class
DSD
DSD64/DSD128 (DoP or D2P)
PCM
Up to 192kHz/24bit
(sampling frequency at 64kHz is not supported)
Windows
Support (Driver required)
MAC Osx
Support
iOS
Not Support
Android
Not Support
Music Format
(Local Storage)
DSF
DSD64,DSD128 and DSD256
Support DST encoded
DFF
SACD-ISO
FLAC
Up to 192kHz/32bit
ALAC
Up to 192kHz/32bit
AIFF
Up to 384kHz/32bit
WAV
Up to 384kHz/32bit
APE
Fast/Normal/High: Up to 192kHzkHz/24bit
Extra high: up to 96kHz/24bit, Insane: not supported
WMA
Up to 96kHz/24bit
WMA Lossless
Up to 96kHz/24bit
MP2/MP3
Up to 48kHz/16bit
AAC
Up to 48kHz/16bit
OGG
Up to 48kHz/16bit
Battery
Capacity
3000mAh 3.8V
Duration
～11HRS (Single ended headphone)
～9HRS (Balance headphone)
Charging time
～3.5HRS (with 2A Charger, not provided)
Charging Current
≤1500mA when charge with 2A Charger,
≤500mA when charge with computer USB port
Recommended Headphone
Impedance Range
8～300Ω
Dimension
117*59*15.3 (mm)
Net Weight
～248±5g