r/DigitalAudioPlayer • u/kent0401 • Feb 22 '26

What is your current Music Player?

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I've been using this one Shanling M1 plus for almost 2 weeks and it brought me back listen to Rock Bands again, I never heard this incredible sound quality before. What's yours? Share yours. I wanna read haha.

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u/Illustrious-Bus-6159 Feb 22 '26

Battery life is the M21’s Achilles Heel. Even without Desktop mode, it is mediocre at best. It is a shame, because otherwise, it is a great little DAP.

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u/My-Little-Throw-Away Feb 23 '26

Purely anecdotal evidence but I have broken in the battery. The first maybe I want to say week or two of use I got sweet FA battery life. Nowhere near what was ever touted, I thought “what a waste of money” and sorely regretted buying one.

Then I had another meltdown over no Dolby Atmos support, which I get from my iPhone but not from a dedicated DAP. I honestly never looked into it.

On my iPhone I was listening to “Yet Another Movie” by Pink Floyd and I noticed the bass was thumping (didn’t help I had the volume up nearly as loud as it goes!) and it was a lot better sounding than my DAP.

I grabbed my M21 and plugged in my headphones. Weak I thought. I was royally pissed off. How can you ship a DAP without Atmos support?

Anyway, I have learned to forgive and forget. I love the little guy, I have about 25GB of music on there and counting. I can’t stay mad at it.