With the new Shanling ECZero T CD player, you’ve got options: use it as a stationary setup, or just as easily take it with you on the go.
It’s no secret that older audio formats are making a comeback. It started with the vinyl revival, moved through cassette tapes, and has now reached the humble CD. Good news for those with large CD collections: more and more manufacturers are bringing CD players back into their product lines. A great example is the new Shanling ECZero T. In fact, it’s more than “just” a CD player — it can also function as a DAC. In that role, it supports up to 768 kHz / DSD512. You can listen to both CD and DAC playback via the familiar 3.5 mm headphone jack or a wired 4.4 mm balanced output. Wireless playback is also supported, thanks to Bluetooth 5.3 with aptX Adaptive, aptX, and SBC compatibility.
Tube or transistor sound
When playing a CD, the disc is held firmly in place by a magnetic clamp, ensuring a low-vibration listening experience. One of the standout features of the ECZero T is its built-in tube amplifier, based on two JAN6418 miniature tubes. Prefer the clean sound of solid-state amplification? You can easily switch over to transistor mode.
As mentioned, the Shanling ECZero T is versatile — perfect for use at home or on the road. A built-in rechargeable battery offers up to 8 hours of playtime on a full charge.
The Shanling ECZero T is available now for $589.
Wow, fact it has tubes and transitor built in and keep it portable and usage of the dac for other purposes, is remarkable versatile.
See other brands like Fio, Smsl to try to fill this seemingly new market gap…Recently revived my system with very cheap Think ya (Aliexpress) cd player, only 65 Euro, wooden case, looks like a tiny vinyl record player, (not portable, not seeking that again…)
use it with optical out, bin a while listening to my cd collection purchased in 80s-2000s, after mp3, flac and now hi res streaming, the cd sounds really great again…open and clean, it made me upgrade the streamer with Ifi lan cleaner to get equal soundstage and details in streaming…all the small steps do their thing….once you hear and experience diifferences it is great to compare vinyl, cd and streaming and hear and find improvemenrs for the strong and weak points of each.
Dumped vinyl in 85 so quite a while but got 100% back into it in 2015, dumped cd since Napster, around 2000 and back into it in 2025…however not buying new cd, then prefer vinyl.
Each medium has its strong and weak points. True…