Shanling CD Player Reviews

"Energetic and enthusiastic > Excels across a range of music styles...Nothing a bit of fine tuning won't fix...We thought we'd seen this one before, but as it turns out that was the 100, not the Shanling CD-T1000SE, which is a new model though evidently sharing a few mechanical components...It's based on a Philips mechanism, but instead of the usual loading tray it has a flip-up lid...Whether the music be hard-driven bebop, the slow movement of a classical..." read more »

"Shanling are conscientious of design and build quality and the CD-T80 gives a clear outward appearance of refinement...Inside design and layout are good with attention to component quality for the analogue power supplies, DAC de-coupling & output coupling...It is only after time with the CD-T80 that its limitations start to bite...With busy and dynamically challenging recording the CD-T80?s sound start to buckle under with the music becoming compressed and edgy...The component quality (electrolytic, op-amps) of the CD-T80 is good, but several areas have been overlooked or left possibly due to cost restraints..." read more »

"The Shanling CDT-100 Tube CD player has several special features...Four separate metal shields are fitted to the analog, digital filter and tube power modules...The unique blend of a 24-bit/96kHz signal coupled with tube technology gives the CDT-100 a very natural sonic character..." read more »