Both are portable players, $350 against $369. 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 H5 reaches 100 dB on 565 of the 567 models here, the Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA on 561.
| Specification | Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA | Shanling H5 |
|---|---|---|
| Power into 32Ω | 112 mW | 227 mW |
| Power into 150Ω | 24 mW | 48 mW |
| Power into 300Ω | 12 mW | 24 mW |
| Power into 600Ω | 6.0 mW | 12 mW |
| Output impedance | not published | 4.7 Ω |
| Output noise | not published | not published |
| Price | $350 | $369 |
| Headphones it reaches 100 dB on out of 567 | 561 | 565 |
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.
4 headphones reach 100 dB on the Shanling H5 but not on the Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA — Moondrop COSMO, Symphonium Crimson, Symphonium Helios, 1 more.
561 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.
Each has a page of its own with every power figure traced to what the maker published and a full headphone list: Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA and Shanling H5. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.