The new Shanling

[Peter Daniel]

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

- Full balanced output and rocker transport
- Japanese NPC SM5847 over-sampling and filter chip.
- Eight Burr-Brown PCM1704K D/A converter chips, four per channel in parallel for single-ended output, two per channel in parallel for balanced configuration.
- Twelve Burr-Brown OPA627 chips for I/V conversion and low pass filtering.
- Four Russian EH6922 vacuum tubes with gold plated pins for output amplification.
- Clean electric power from a separate power supply.
- Famous Philips CDM-4 transport.
- lattice LED display screen with INTELLIGENT DISPLAYS technology.
- Three point support of the best kind.
- Multiple anti-vibration construction to isolate the transport mechanism.
- Custom-made aluminum alloy chassis, built with meticulous craftsmanship.

More info:
http://www.shanling.com/index_e.html

 

[carlosfm]

- Eight Burr-Brown PCM1704K D/A converter chips, four per channel in parallel for single-ended output, two per channel in parallel for balanced configuration.

- Twelve Burr-Brown OPA627 chips for I/V conversion and low pass filtering.

- Four Russian EH6922 vacuum tubes with gold plated pins for output amplification.

- Famous Philips CDM-4 transport.

Is this still available, or are they scavenging old CDPs?

- lattice LED display screen with INTELLIGENT DISPLAYS technology.
- Three point support of the best kind.
- Multiple anti-vibration construction to isolate the transport mechanism.
- Custom-made aluminum alloy chassis, built with meticulous craftsmanship.

 

[LTK]

Thats one beautiful looking piece of kit but I wonder if the sound matches the looks

 

[Cobra2]

Famous Philips CDM-4 transport....

Replica by "far-east production" ?

Arne K

OK, the design is special, it made methink of the movie; "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

 

[rcavictim]

That is just drop-dead gorgeous!!! Too bad they made it to just play old 78 RPM slate records.

When SACD and competing formats finally settle down, I'd like to buy whatever the accepted new hi-res format is and I want the player to look like this!

 

[LTK]

I suppose it would make a nice transport
I wasn't very impressed with the original Shanling player, again it looked nice but my Modded Arcam trounced it for sound quality

 

[carlosfm]

I suppose it would make a nice transport
I wasn't very impressed with the original Shanling player, again it looked nice but my Modded Arcam trounced it for sound quality

Yes Leon, and one more thing: people that listened to it say that the sound was better through the SS output (OPA2604) than through the tube output.

 

[LTK]

Yes Leon, and one more thing: people that listened to it say that the sound was better through the SS output (OPA2604) than through the tube output.

Well it got trounced using both SS and tube output.
After the guy in the shop laughed at the sight of my old Arcam the smirk was soon wiped off his face when he heard it
He knew he wasn't getting a sale that day

 

[rfbrw]

Ahh, the ELO machine. Lets hope the playback chain on this model is a little shorter than usual.

 

[carlosfm]

Thats one beautiful looking piece of kit but I wonder if the sound matches the looks

Of course we don't get fooled by looks.
I love the TDA1541A, and your Arcam has one of these.

 

[cocolino]

originally posted by carlosfm
Of course we don't get fooled by looks.

To me this thing looks like some aliens christmas tree

 

[rcavictim]

To me this thing looks like some aliens christmas tree

Oh yeah, like you should talk seeing as how your avatar looks anything like a speaker!

 

[carlosfm]

To me this thing looks like some aliens christmas tree

I also prefer the classic looks of an LP12 than a Michell or a Clearaudo.

 

[X.G.]

I got some infos from here.

http://www.jd-bbs.com/read.php?tid=420387&fpage=4

It's price is 55,000 HKD(HongKong dollars) ,approx $7,000