SHANLINGMini MP3 Player M0 Pro 2in1 Headphone DAC/Amp/Bluetooth/App Control, 1.7 * 1.7inch Digital Audio Player HD Touch Screen, Support to 2TB, USB Type-C 3.5mm Jacks,Volume Konb

If you’re old school and want to load up an SD card with high resolution music files and play them through a portable player, this is a great choice. Sound quality is excellent, the compact size makes it super portable, and the solid machined aluminum body offers excellent durability. Battery life is also great. One negative: every time you plug it into a USB cable, whether it’s just for charging or connected to a PC, the players boots into a routine where it refreshes the music library. This is frustrating because it happens even if there are no new music files on the SD card. It appears to be an automatic feature baked into the operating system that cannot be deactivated. So for example when you get in your car and plug the thing in to charge it up and play some music through your stereo, you need to wait 4-5 minutes for it to scan every music file before you can play anything. Aside from this annoying and unnecessary procedure, this is otherwise a great device. The price of around $100-125 is also very affordable for a legitimate audiophile grade portable music player that is solidly built and generally works very well.

Likes-Size. Very Portable. This of course means the screen is smaller and harder to navigate music library but the trade off for me is very worth it. I have large hands and I haven't had many issues with the screen. It is very comfortable to have it in my pocket compared to my phone. I don't notice the weight at all.-Sound Quality! I had bought a Hiby r3 gen 2 and despite hours changing settings, headphones and eq, I could not get it to sound good to me. I am no audiophile but the sound felt very boxed in and stale. I have gotten the Shanling m0 pro (with some eqing) to sound almost exactly how I want it too!-Build. The Button on the side is very useful for playing/pausing/changing volumes easy. It works well and feels high quality. The whole device definitely feels high quality.-Bluetooth Connection. Again this is compared to the Hiby R3 gen 2. With the Hiby the connection was very weak! It would cut out often. The bluetooth is much stronger on the Shanling m0 pro. I really enjoy using bluetooth on it.-Screen. Album art shows clearly and the touch screen is very responsive.Dislikes-Battery Life. This is advertised to get 14 hours or whatever of play time. Mine only lasts 4-6. I use it on the most battery friendly settings (low brightness, turn bluetooth off when not using it etc.) and I still can only get 4-6 hours of music play time on it. The Battery runs out fairly quickly both while playing music but also in standby mode for me. Luckily it charges relatively fast but it's still annoying to have to plug it in to charge so often.-Freezing! This has become a big issue for me. Every once in a while my device will freeze up while playing audio! It usually happens when I'm scrolling through my playlists on my device. It won't let me click anything and the side button will stop working. This means that the music will keep playing at the volume it was at when it froze until I shut it down. It takes about 20-30 seconds to shut down and turn it back on and it is annoying because then I have to go back and find the song I want again, reconnect bluetooth, change volume etc. It sometimes won't happen for a week and it sometimes will happen multiple times in one day. The freezing issue is very annoying.Overall I am happy to have the device and would recommend it. The only things to be aware of are the battery life issue and the possibility of it freezing. However the size and sound quality make up for these flaws in my opinion!

I orderd a Fiio M11s and was completely disappointed. First of all, the device is quite literally, as big as a brick. It's basically worthless if you want a player you can take anywhere. If you regularly carry a phone and wallet in your pocket already, the M11s will not fit in your pocket along with those items, and if you put it in your other pocket, along with your keys, I hope you enjoy having your pants weighted down. On top of this, the sound quality was unimpressive for a $400 player: NO BASS, and had to turn the volume way up to get it to a listenable level, even with lower impedance headphones. It also skipped at the beginning of every track when listening to an album, and sometimes skipped randomly during tracks. Unacceptable for a $400 player. On top of all this, to add or delete music from this player, I had to remove the SD card, put it in an adapter, and plug it into the computer by itself, in order to add or remove songs from this device. If I plugged the player into my laptop with the SD card in it, the player would not load in my computer/would freeze up trying to load it in my computer. If i tried to eject the player, it wouldn't properly eject. If I tried to shutdown the laptop, it would stick on "logging off" and never shut down, unless I held down the power button. Also unacceptable for a $400 Player! Yes, I updated the firmware, yes the device driver installed correctly, and I did everything else I should have tried doing, but this dumb, clunky machine would freeze up Windows trying to load it as a drive.Enter the Shanling M0 Pro. I decided the M11s was not for me and to return it, and began looking for a different player. After realizing the current trend is these bigger players and that there aren't as many smaller options out there anymore, I found the M0 Pro (Previously chose the M11s over the M3 Ultra , but know now that the M3 Ultra would also have been too big for my uses). I am continually impressed by the sound quality of this little player. It has no problem driving Sennheiser HD 280 Pro, 380 Pro, 300 Pro, as well as Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 32 Ohm. The M11s didn't sound great on any of these headphones, and had no bass on any of them. The M0 Pro sounds great on all of these phones, and has plenty of bass. On top of that, it's tiny and ultra portable. If you don't care about streaming stuff and only want to listen to your own collection in the awesome quality, in an extremely portable package, get this player. I have a 1 TB SD card in this thing, and it runs fast and smooth with NO LAG. The Fiio M3K I replaced this with would lag heavily with a 1 TB card. This is smaller and sounds better too. Overall, I am just extremely impressed with the value and performance of this little player. It sounds better than the $400 Fiio M11s and has none of the aforementioned glitches that the Fiio had. It plays all tracks in crystal clear clarity and transitions from one track to the next without any skips or hiccups. If you want an all purpose, truly portable device, with audiophile sound/are looking for an upgrade from a Fiio M3K and/or are considering the Fiio M11s vs. The Shanling M3 Ultra, save yourself the money and the trouble and just buy the Shanling M0 Pro. If you aren't using headphones that are considerably more powerful than those I mentioned (Ohms wise), you will be more than pleased with this awesomely tiny device.PRO TIPS: IF you have difficulty reading the song titles, you can see the full titles on the "now playing" screen and use the skip back and forward buttons to skip to the song title you want. I would also recommend using the "folders" menu to find the artist and album you want to listen to rather than the "my music" menu.