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Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player – New Tiny One

It is probably one of the smallest portable hi-res audio players that the company Shanling now presents with the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player. As the name clearly shows, the company wants to build on the success of the Shanling M0 Ultra Portable Music Player.

With the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player, the Chinese company Shanling once again presents a so-called DAP, i.e. a digital audio player, whereby this is a very special representative of this genre. The most obvious feature of the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player is that it is a virtually tiny solution, a DAP that you can really take with you wherever you go. It is also clear from the name that this is a continuation of one of Shanling’s most successful solutions in the field of personal audio devices, the Shanling M0 Ultra Portable Music Player.

Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player as Successor to the Shanling M0

It was already in 2019 when Shanling presented the Shanling M0 Ultra Portable Music Player for the first time and proudly spoke of a tiny device for hi-res audio on the go. In those years, it was still quite common for many users to rely on so-called MP3 players, especially when it came to particularly compact solutions. Remember the Apple iPod nano, for example, which was very successful. Hi-res audio players were much more expensive and bulky, so the Shanling M0 with its small dimensions and very attractive price was a real enrichment of the market.

It is therefore no surprise that the Shanling M0 Ultra Portable Music Player, as already described, proved to be a very successful solution.

And this success is now to be followed up with the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player, as Shanling explicitly states.

Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player with fully balanced signal processing

The new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player once again presents itself as a very, very compact, even tiny solution, yet it now features fully balanced signal processing based on two ESS ES9219C DAC/amps from the specialist ESS Technology Inc.

The new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player is thus capable of reproducing all relevant data formats in hi-res audio, with impeccable signal processing and comparatively high output power, although the manufacturer does not yet provide any further details in this regard.

Interestingly, the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player has a 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack for connecting headphones, which is normally an indication of an unbalanced design. This is not the case with the Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player, which, according to Shanling, uses a special 5-pin design to ensure a balanced connection in the smallest form factor. According to Shanling, a single-ended and balanced connection has been realised, and a corresponding adapter from 3.5 mm to 4.4 mm will be included in the scope of delivery of the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player.

Bluetooth 5.0 with bi-directional signal transmission

The new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player is supposed to have a Bluetooth 5.0 module that is designed as a so-called transceiver, which means it can send and receive signals. The integration of corresponding headphones is thus just as possible as the signal transmission from the smartphone, tablet or notebook to the Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player. The Hi-res Audio Wireless logo on the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player next to the regular Hi-res Audio logo indicates that codecs are used that enable loss-free signal transmission even in Hi-res Audio.

Simple control via small display

Of course, the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player also has a small touchscreen display that serves as the central user interface for easy control. A rotary encoder on the side also ensures that the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player appears almost like a smartwatch. Shanling will probably also offer a corresponding wristband as an accessory for this new generation.

It should also be mentioned that the Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player has a USB-C port, which makes it usable as a USB DAC and serves to charge the integrated battery.

By the way, the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player presents itself with an aluminium housing, which is anodised in different colours.

Prices and availability

Unfortunately, Shanling has not yet given a recommended retail price, but you can expect that the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player will once again be very attractively priced. According to Shanling, it should be available very soon.

Getting to the point

Even though the market in the DAP sector has changed dramatically in recent years and prices have reached very moderate regions in many cases, Shanling still wants to repeat the success with the new Shanling M0 PRO Ultra Portable Music Player, which was celebrated years ago with its predecessor, the Shanling M0 Ultra Portable Music Player, due to its tiny dimensions and very low price.

PRODUCTSHANLING M0 PRO ULTRA PORTABLE MUSIC PLAYER
PriceN/A
BrandSHANLING
ManufacturerShanling
DistributionNT Global Distribution GmbH
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Michael Holzinger

Michael Holzinger, founder and editor-in-chief of HiFi BLOG and sempre-audio.at, has been working for years as a journalist in the fields of IT, photography, telecommunications and consumer electronics.

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