Lotoo PAW 6000 vs Shanling M7

Both are portable players, $1200 against $1249. 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 M7 reaches 100 dB on 566 of the 567 models here, the Lotoo PAW 6000 on 565.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationLotoo PAW 6000Shanling M7
Power into 32Ω300 mW406 mW
Power into 150Ω64 mW87 mW
Power into 300Ω32 mW43 mW
Power into 600Ω16 mW22 mW
Output impedancenot published1.0 Ω
Output noise0.975 µV1.6 µV
Price$1200$1249
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 M7 but not on the Lotoo PAW 6000 — Moondrop PARA.

1 headphone stays below the audible-hiss threshold on the Lotoo PAW 6000 but crosses it on the Shanling M7 (Tanchjim EA FORCE).

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: Lotoo PAW 6000 and Shanling M7. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.