I started my experience with shanling m8 back then a few years ago and I remember they had quite some issues with there software and small limited storage as well. My Spotify was bugging and the app never remembered my offline tracks… but the sound was really good I like the m8 a lot.
Later to maybe 2 months ago I discovered shanling H5 and boy I loved that little dac/amp. Sound was phenomenally fun and everything was just amazing. Then on my day 29 of ownership I see the M5U got released!!! I was like aaa noo I just bought h5 and this m5u is newer and much improved. I was lucky I could return it via amazon and didn’t lose any money few.
I can say m5u is a much more mature device and offers way more then h5, I like the idea of a music player via edict app on h5 but it was very limited. Cant creat playlist no album arts. With m5u you get a real dap and edit app for me has no purpose atm, you can control volume if you desire so lol.
M5u is amazing in every aspect, sound, fun, reliability, well done software and so much more. The most incredible is the price. Shanling you have to at all cost present us with a m5u flagship variant this little beast is just incredible I really love it.
Atm enjoying my music with short delay slow roll-off and medium gain, the fact you can alter the sound tuning so easily is just awesome. A very very successful dap congratulations shanling and many thanks for the pure pleasures with my m5u.