Shanling M0-Titanium Portable Lossless Digital Audio Player and DAC - Titanium

I've owned numerous portable MP3 players - and before that, a wide selection of personal CD and cassette players. I even had a portable MiniDisc player at one point.Compared to all of them, the Shanling M0 is significantly worse in several ways. The user interface is quirky, to be polite. No sorting by album artist field, for a start - given I carefully set the album artist in all my ripped files, and every other device I own uses it, the fact that this one doesn't is hugely irritating. The touchscreen is irritatingly unresponsive; sometimes it works immediately, other times it takes three swipes to do what you want. The OLED screen suffers from burn-in - after spending two hours indexing my 200GB card with 28,000 songs on it, the "indexing" display was visible on the screen for the next 24 hours. The Bluetooth range is pathetic, due to the player being a solid piece of metal with only the screen to allow the signal to escape - if you have it pointing the right way, it works ok, but if the screen is facing away from your headphones, it won't even reach a metre without stuttering. You have to switch on gapless playback in the settings - as if anyone would want to turn it off - and even then there is a noticeable blip between continuous tracks if they are ripped in AAC or MP3. But...This box, either via wired or Bluetooth, is probably the best sounding portable audio device I have owned. It sounds, frankly, gorgeous. Driving my B&W P9 Signature headphones, it revealed things I have never noticed before in music I have owned for decades - and that is from lossy AAC tracks. The sound balance is warm; perhaps a little bass-heavy, but no trace of shrillness or fatigue. It does an amazingly good job of separating out the individual strands of music and revealing the details, but without searing your eardrums in the process. It goes very loud if you want it to, and it supports both aptX and LDAC for high quality Bluetooth.And it is tiny - its resemblance to an Apple Watch is surely not a coincidence; it is pretty much identical in size, albeit a couple of mm thicker. It'll take a microSD card of up to 512GB - I've not tried one of those, but it works fine with my 200GB SanDisk, albeit taking a very long time to index the card when you first load it.If you can get past the UI idiosyncrasies, if sound quality and portability are what matters, this is a staggeringly good portable audio device.

touchscreen is awful, 10+ touches on an option sometimes is still not enough. really bad. i don't have same problem with my phone for example.my fiio reads my micro sd petfectly, but shanling seems only able to see most the files through the folder option. artist, all music, etc show just a handful of tracks on the card. all files are lossless, mix of wav and flac.Just re read my review, and wanted to add that I still use the M0, happily. I must have learned to live with the touch screen and using folder view always, because when I think of the M0 I think it's great sound quality for the money. Has never failed either. I recommend the M0 personally.

I am writing 8 months after purchase and with pretty steady use. The outstanding feature of this tiny player is the sound quality, not just relative to size but against any measure. I have used this with +£300 Grado headphones and HiRes files (up to 96khz/24bit) and the sound was outstanding. And it renders lower res files very well. Compared to any Apple product, for example, this player really shines.It is very small, and I have big fingers! I've put a Mini Popsocket on the back after dropping it a couple of times, which has pretty much resolved it. The navigation is good for the size of the screen, which makes it OK. My biggest bugbear is that it is too easy to over-run lists and find yourself at 'a' or 'z', but you get used to it.Anyone reading this review, or any of the others, should bear in mind that there are substantial improvements being made to the firmware pretty regularly. Playlists are being sorted out (Feb 2020) and lots of other things at the top audio end and with UI. Shanling should be congratulated for their continuing support for a product after it's launch and after the launch of other new products.

What a beautiful little product. A total joy to behold. Its a little quirky yes but give it time and it yields results. Sounds great, can drive my sennheiser hd25 with ease. I love the fact that you can use the Bluetooth to link to some headphones/speakers or alternatively you can link it to your phone, and then plug wired headphones into it to take advantage of it as a headphone amp. The screen is nice and clear. Battery life is OK but I recommend that you set it to shut down when not in use otherwise its standby power consumption is a little too high. Buy one, I'm sure you'll love it... Simple, drag music to it, play it back ane be amazed at its almost postage stamp size :)

I had high hopes for this after my Sony NW-45 suddenly died, so I thought I'd give this a try.Sound is great, and loud enough BUT it's battery life is poor, there is no lock button so it too easily can be turned on or off accidentally. Also the display is so small that it has to scroll through the song title. Possibly nothing to bother most people but I find it annoying and I have to amend the titles as I use it for for DJ mixes to be played at the gym.It's a decent option if you need a really small Mp3 player as it's got a SD card so the quality isn't an issue but the lack of lock button is a design flaw that should have been easily avoided.