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Shanling M2S Compact Pocket Power

Shanling M2S

USD199
8.4

Sound Signature

8.1/10

Build Quality/Design/Functionality

8.3/10

Value

8.8/10

Pros

  • Compact size, prefect as a low profile transport device, great price point, easy and intuitive to use
  • Good driving power for most iems and headphones
  • Bluetooth is excellent as is Hiby Link. Battery standby is truly amazing

Cons

  • Lack of balanced output
  • No touch screen for navigation
  • No case in the box not even a TPU case, Rotary wheel a bit loose

Official Product Information

Shanling M2s AK4490EQ DSD256 PCM 384Khz/32Bit Lossless Bluetooth Music Player

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Description

3 inch Retina display,310 PPI pixels,800X480 resolutions HD display

  • When you open the M2S, brilliant Retina display, matched with the 3-inch size, so that everything looks particularly bright and beautiful. Photo is like hanging in the screen, vivid, delicate.
  • 800X480 resolution, so that each interface are particularly clear.
  • All of these are shown in this inch between, coupled with its own UI system, just to bring you a different visual experience.

New design Evolution

  • M2s contrast to the previous generation M2 in the retention, the advantages of the former on the basis of a more bold innovation. Smaller about 20.6%, Lighter to about 100g.

Big thrust, low background noise

  • The main chip is excellent packaging shielding; optimize the power circuit design, to maintain a large thrust while reducing the noise at the same time.

NATIVE DSD, Better sound quality, Powerful function

  • M2s support hardware solution DSD256, PCM384Khz / 32bit, also supports WAV, FLAC, APE, WMA, ALAC, AIFF, AAC, ISO, DFF, DSF, DTS and other lossless audio formats.

New design

  • New UI, Contains 4 major themes, 77 kinds of songs category
  • The new design of the wheel, easy to operate three real keys on the left, switch or pause the song, which makes operate blindly without obstruction.

Build

  • Japan imported ALPS surface fine diamond bump texture
  • Knob, Can be 500,000 times, Can turn 100,000 times
  • Back and front double 2.50 glass design

Bluetooth

  • Two-way Bluetooth 4.0 transmission, Support Apt-x protocol, good sound uncompromising
  • Can be used as a source to connect Bluetooth headset / stereo
  • Can be connected to car Bluetooth, it is your side of the wireless music center.
  • As the phone’s Bluetooth decoding amp, listen to the music of the music APP’s massive library.

Type-C interface, more play way.

  • Support OTG function, directly read and draw the U disk file,
  • USB digital can be used as a digital dial to support DOP output. (Do digital turntable OTG adapter to be installed separately)

Two-way USB

  • Link the computer / phone, for external decoding amp
  • Link USB decoder, can be used as a digital wheel.

H1.2s Decode & amp in one

  • Shanling H1.2s set decoding and amp into one, the desktop PC-HiFi and small sound system sound quality is better presented.
  • Shanling H1.2s using ESS’s ESS9016 as a DA conversion chip, the maximum support 32bit / 384kHzDSD128 master band audio playback, to ensure full interpretation of the sound source, and M2S to form a complete desktop music system.

CNC all metal in one body

  • Integral forming curved body, the surface using sandblasting process; give you a sense of new experience.
  • Button 20 minutes, Seiko car roll
  • CNC 40 minutes precision machining
  • Shell 50 minutes thick film oxidation and color

PO/LO Share one interface

  • M2s earphone jack can switch to lineout output,

Hi-end level chip selection

  • Surging sound, strong thrust

AK4490EQ

  • Shanling’s M2s chip configuration uses the more advanced Japanese AKM’s premium 32bit DAC chip, the AK4490EQ, integrates the newly developed switched-capacitor filter “OSR Double” with five types of 32-bit digital filters, which can receive up to 768kHz PCM data and 11.2MHz DSD data and has a low distortion of 112dB, very suitable for high-resolution audio source player, for the presentation of the human voice to build a better hardware foundation for the late tuning ready.

MUSES8920

  • MUSES8920 is JRC in order to expand the high sound for high-quality audio device series
  • “MUSES” product lineup, the development of a 2-way, J-FET input form of op amp chip. This chip as M2S low-pass filter chip has many advantages, the distortion as low as 0.00004%, slew rate is as high as 25V / μs. MUSES8920 has a wider range of work 3V can work properly, M2S its working voltage for the soil 5V, so a greater degree of guarantee that the chip will be a good performance.
  • MUSES8920 is a Hi-end level op amp chip. It can give M2s more beautiful and beautiful voice, which makes the appeal of music more thoroughly demonstrated.

TPA6120

  • Using TPA6120 as the emitter chip, with low distortion, excellent performances, amplified circuit through the fine design, give you a better thrust performance.

Delicate leather case

  • Close / dress up / protect (leather to be purchased separately)

Specification

  • Size: 53 X 14.5 X 85.6mm
  • Net weight: about 100g
  • Screen: 3 inch Retina HD display (480X800)
  • Audio format: ISO, DSF, DFF, DTS, APE, FLAC, ALAC, WMA, AAC, OGG, MP3, WAV, AIFF
  • Gain compensation: high and low
  • D / A conversion chip: AK4490EQ
  • Emitter chip: TPA1612
  • Low pass filter chip: MUSES8920
  • Support format: the maximum support DSD256, PCM maximum support 32 bit/ 384KHz
  • Output power: 130mw @ 32Ω / 112mw @ 300Ω
  • Frequency response: 20Hz to 20 kHz (-0.2dB)
  • Distortion: <0.003% (A weight, output 500mV)
  • Headphone output signal to noise ratio: ≥ 108dB (A weight)
  • Dynamic range: ≥108dB
  • Output impedance: 4.8Ω
  • Channel resolution: 75dB 32Ω
  • Rated output level: 2.2vRMS@10KΩ
  • Line Output Signal to Noise Ratio: ≥108dB (A Weighted)
  • Harmonic Distortion: <0.003% (A weight, output 500mV)
  • Harmonic Distortion + Noise: <0.003%
  • Life time :> 9H
  • Battery capacity: 1800mAH lithium battery
  • External storage: external TF card, the maximum capacity to support 256G
  • USB: Type-C (USB2.0)
  • USB digital output: Native / Dop / D2P output
  • Decoding: maximum support 192KHz.32Bit / support windows (need to drive), MacOS (no need to drive)
  • Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0 supports Apt-X

Package

  • Shanling M2S
  • USB Cable
  • Card Reader ·
  • Protective Film x4