Shanling EA5 Desktop Streamer Amplifier

The Shanling EA5 Desktop Streamer is designed as a multifunctional music centre for your desktop Hi-Fi system, working perfectly all alone or in combination with your other devices.

The heart of EA5 is its digital player system, giving you easy access to a range of streaming services or working with your music library. Just insert MicroSD card, attach hard drive or connect EA5 to your local Wi-Fi network and music will start. And all of that can be controlled remotely from an app on your phone.

Shanling EA5 Desktop Streamer

At the heart of the Shanling EA5 Desktop Streamer is its digital player system, giving you easy access to a range of streaming services or working with your music library. Just insert a MicroSD card, attach a hard drive or connect the EA5 to your local Wi-Fi network and the music will start. And all of that can be controlled remotely from an app on your phone.

There are two amplifiers hidden inside the EA5. Our standard headphone amplifier, offering up to 570mW@32Ohm power for your audiophile headphones, using a full-size 6.35mm output. But more special is the included Abletec Class-D amplifier for speakers, with 50W@4Ohm per channel. Making the EA5 into a perfect choice for a desktop setup, where you might need to often switch between headphones and speakers.

The Shanling EA5 Desktop Streamer is filled with the connectivity, so it can be used in many other scenarios. It can work as a dedicated DAC with a computer or other digital sources. It can be connected to a separate amplifier and used as a pure DAC or as a pre-amplifier. In reverse, it can also work as a integrated amplifier, connected to separate DAC. It can even work with Bluetooth, both as a receiver and as a source.

An Independent Streaming Centre
Running deeply customized closed Android system, EAS serves as a standalone music system. No need for computer or complicated setting up, just direct access to your music collection and streaming ser
vices. Supported services: Apple Music / Spotify / Tidal / Deezer / Qobuz / Amazon Music

Key Design Elements
Deep black body combining glass and aluminum, gold plated volume wheel for the touch of luxury, 4.7-inch touch screen for easy control over your music and a circuit diagram for the Hi-Fi, enthusiasts.

Powering Speakers
EA5 adds a dedicated class-D speaker amplifier from Abletec. This amplifier offers 2x 50W @ 4 Ohm output power, making it a matching solution for any bookshelf speakers and the smaller or more sensitive floorstanding speakers.

• Amplifier – ALC0100 Abletec 50Wx2040 /Output power

Shanling House Sound 
To provide you with our typical smooth and natural, sound, they used a classic AKM AK4493EQ DAC chip for EA5. Combined with a high-quality power supply and our 33 years of design experience, you will enjoy beautifully delicate and richly warm sound.

Connect Over Bluetooth
The Shanling EA5 Desktop Streamer offers a two-way Bluetooth connectivity, so it can be used as a Bluetooth DAC for an easy music streaming directly from your phone. And it will also serve for the moments when you would like to connect some Bluetooth headphones or speakers. Transmitter support: LDAC, LHDC, aptX HD, aptX, SBC Receiver support: LDAC, SBC

Companion App
The Shanling Eddict Player app (available for Android and iOS) allows you to take a complete control over the EA5 from your smartphone or tablet. Offering a complete display mirroring, giving you access to all features of the EA5 from comfort of your chair.

Easily Fits Any System
The EA5 combines so many different functions, it can fit into pretty much any home audio system. Switching quickly from headphones to speakers, running on its own or as a DAC with your computer or CD Player, streaming from Tidal or from your local NAS. So many possibilities in one unit.

MQA Compatible
EA5 support 8X MQA playback from locally stored files, Streaming apps and over USB input.

Specifications

System: Closed Customized Android, with build-in streaming apps
Display: Touch 4.7-inch 720p
Dimensions: 238 x 188 x 55 mm

Analog circuit
AKM AK4493 DAC
TPA6120A2 for headphones
Abletec ALC0100 Class-D for speakers
3rd Generation FPGA
CPAF Filter technology
KDS Crystal oscillator
Panasonic Tantalum capacitors

Outputs: 6.35mm single ended for headphones and standard speaker port
Pre-amp output: RCA
Digital input: USB, Coaxial, optical, LAN and external driver USB slot
Analog Input: RCA

Output power:  Headphones 6.35mm – 570mW @ 32Ohm// Speakers – 50W @ 4Ohm / 32W @ 8Ohm per channel

Wireless connection: Wifi 2.4 & 5G
Support DLNA and Airplay
Two-way Bluetooth 4.2, with LDAC support

Audio support: PCM 32/768
DSD256 native, DSD512 software
8x MQA

New Zealand Shanling Official Product. Come with Shanling Manufactures Warranty.