Both are portable players, $369 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 Shanling H5 on 565.
| Specification | Shanling H5 | Shanling M7 |
|---|---|---|
| Power into 32Ω | 227 mW | 406 mW |
| Power into 150Ω | 48 mW | 87 mW |
| Power into 300Ω | 24 mW | 43 mW |
| Power into 600Ω | 12 mW | 22 mW |
| Output impedance | 4.7 Ω | 1.0 Ω |
| Output noise | not published | 1.6 µV |
| Price | $369 | $1249 |
| Headphones it reaches 100 dB on out of 567 | 565 | 566 |
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.
1 headphone reaches 100 dB on the Shanling M7 but not on the Shanling H5 — Moondrop PARA.
371 headphones are left alone by the Shanling M7 under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the Shanling H5 (64 Audio Aspire 1, 64 Audio Fourte, 64 Audio Ocean, 368 more).
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.
Each has a page of its own with every power figure traced to what the maker published and a full headphone list: Shanling H5 and Shanling M7. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.