Hey everyone new guy here looking for some potential tech feedback with regard to my new UA5. I also posted this on HiFi guides but I figured that I would try here as well.
So I just received a Shanling UA5 as a birthday gift, and upon starting it up, I noticed that the very outer edges of the OLED screen are brighter than the rest of the display. Upon scrolling through some of the sub menus I also noticed that the main menu text seems as if it’s peeking through the sub menu graphics, like a subtle ghosted image. This leads me to believe that my display has OLED burn-in.
The second thing - I originally couldn’t get the UA5 to produce any sound, and after some tinkering I noticed that I have to plug the USB-C into the audio source device first, and only once the UA5 powers on, am I able to plug in my IEM’s. Only then do I hear the sound, and I have to do this every time the UA5 powers down. This is something that I reproduced on two Android phones, an Android DAP, and my Windows 10 PC.
Is this normal behavior for this DAC? To me it currently seems like I have a rather defective unit. As a side note, it was purchased from the Shanling store on AliExpress.
Thanks in advance for any help.