Shanling EC Play Review - Everything You Need to Know About This Portable CD Player!

The Shanling EC Play combines the nostalgic experience of listening to CDs with modern features such as a powerful 4.4mm balanced output, gapless playback support, Bluetooth, USB-DAC/Bluetooth DAC support, and coaxial digital output. In this review, I explore whether this compact $199 USD portable CD player is an enjoyable and affordable way to rediscover your CD collection, and what its limitations are. 🔗Purchase Links for the Shanling EC Play🔗 Shanling Official - https://store.shanling.com/EC-Play-Co... Linsoul - https://www.linsoul.com/products/shan... Check out my written CD player reviews - https://www.hifioasis.com/category/re... Follow me on X: https://x.com/HiFiOasis Follow me on Instagram:   / hifioasis   Visit my website: https://www.hifioasis.com Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Disclosure 00:51 What is the EC Play? 01:43 Specifications 03:15 What's in the box 03:56 Build Quality and Design 06:44 Loading a CD and lid mechanism 08:00 Powering on and controls walkthrough 09:08 Menu walkthrough (and showing off the themes) 12:56 Playing a CD and playback controls 13:52 Physical comparison to other Shanling portable CD players 15:29 Physical comparison to FiiO portable CD players 17:34 CD playback performance 17:55 Do discs skip? 19:29 Playback of various types of CDs (HDCDs, Enhanced CDs, scratched CDs) 22:37 Is the EC Play noisy when playing a disc? 23:27 Hybrid SACD playback performance 24:34 Any issues with longer CDs or CDs with many tracks? 26:01 Battery Life and Charging 27:13 Bluetooth performance 29:24 Lack of CD Ripping 30:11 Overall User Experience 30:51 Firmware update process 31:34 Output Power and Noise Floor 34:43 Sound Quality 36:16 Overall value 38:09 My only real complaint 38:35 Who is the EC Play for? 39:29 Who is the EC Play not for? 40:03 Final thoughts 40:34 Outro Want me to review a product? Or purchase an ad spot? Contact me: dawson@hifioasis.com Disclosure: I’d like to thank Shanling for providing me with the EC Play for this review. All thoughts and opinions are my own, and Shanling had no say or input on the contents of this review. 🎶Music in this video🎶 Music from creatormix.com @shanlingaudio #shanling #cd #cdplayer #portablecdplayer #audiophile #discmnan #sonydiscman #compactdisc #disc #ecplay