FiiO BTR7 vs Shanling UP6

Both are Bluetooth receivers, $199 against $199. This page puts them side by side on the only three things a maker can be held to — power, output impedance and noise — and then asks the question that actually matters: which headphones do they treat differently?

The Shanling UP6 reaches 100 dB on 566 of the 567 models here, the FiiO BTR7 on 565.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationFiiO BTR7Shanling UP6
Power into 32Ω160 mW626 mW
Power into 150Ω35 mW134 mW
Power into 300Ω18 mW67 mW
Power into 600Ω9.0 mW33 mW
Output impedance1.2 Ωnot published
Output noise3.0 µVnot published
Price$199$199
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
565566

A figure marked not published is missing from the maker’s own material, which is not the same as being good or bad. Where one of these two publishes a number and the other does not, the comparison on that axis cannot be made at all — and saying so is more useful than guessing.

The headphones that tell them apart

1 headphone reaches 100 dB on the Shanling UP6 but not on the FiiO BTR7 — Moondrop PARA.

565 of the 567 models here reach 100 dB on both. That is a power count and nothing more; whether either source suits a given headphone also depends on the two lines above.

Both pages in full

Each has a page of its own with every power figure traced to what the maker published and a full headphone list: FiiO BTR7 and Shanling UP6. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.