{"id":4072,"date":"2025-06-16T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2025-06-21T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T10:10:41","slug":"shanling-launches-ec-zero-t-portable-cd-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/news\/shanling-launches-ec-zero-t-portable-cd-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanling launches EC Zero T portable CD player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years after its EC Mini CD player and a year after the launch of its R2R EH2 DAC, Chinese company Shanling combines the two in a portable EC Zero T CD player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a very compact format (158 x 150 x 28 mm), this little player uses 192 resistors to decode the digital CD signal into analog. It then combines the possibility of oversampling or not this signal, to outputs managed by two JAN6418 tubes or to a headphone amp derived from a TPA6120 module.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A full-featured unit, the EC Zero T offers unbalanced 3.5 mm and balanced 4.4 mm headphone outputs. And while it is first and foremost designed to play CDs, with the technologies of the best portable players of the time such as an anti-shake function to prevent clipping when listening to the device while moving it, it also provides everything you could expect from a modern product. Surprisingly, its DAC can decode PCM files up to 768 kHz\/32 bits and DSD512, while its Bluetooth chip is one of the most recent, version 5.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1035\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/78c07a2767d8ca30667b410ae49ef590252.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/78c07a2767d8ca30667b410ae49ef590252.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/78c07a2767d8ca30667b410ae49ef590252-980x490.jpg 980w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/78c07a2767d8ca30667b410ae49ef590252-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1035px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two USC C sockets allow integration of a computer, streamer or external drive, while the other recharges the player. A 3.5 mm socket provides digital output to another DAC, near two 3.5 mm and 4.4 mm analog sockets. A small 1.68&#8243; color screen displays information on the top of the device, right next to a few buttons and a battery charge level indicator, usable for up to 8 h in CD playback mode and 20 h in Bluetooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the decoding technology chosen and the ability to play at the highest sampling rates currently possible, on which has just been added the ripper function for burning CDs, we are curious to hear what this little player is capable of. The European price of the EC Zero T is 589 \u20ac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>16\/06\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-decran-2025-06-16-a-20.57.33.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-decran-2025-06-16-a-20.57.33.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-decran-2025-06-16-a-20.57.33-1280x311.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-decran-2025-06-16-a-20.57.33-980x238.jpg 980w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-decran-2025-06-16-a-20.57.33-480x117.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after its EC Mini CD player and a year after the launch of its R2R EH2 DAC, Chinese company Shanling combines the two in a portable EC Zero T CD player. In a very compact format (158 x 150 x 28 mm), this little player uses 192 resistors to decode the digital CD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":4073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}