Shanling M6 Ultra vs Shanling M7

Both are portable players, $919 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 M6 Ultra on 565.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationShanling M6 UltraShanling M7
Power into 32Ω240 mW406 mW
Power into 150Ω51 mW87 mW
Power into 300Ω26 mW43 mW
Power into 600Ω13 mW22 mW
Output impedance1.0 Ω1.0 Ω
Output noisenot published1.6 µV
Price$919$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 Shanling M6 Ultra — 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: Shanling M6 Ultra and Shanling M7. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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