SHANLING EH1 DAC Headphone Amplifier Silver

With its EH1, Shanling unveils a compact, high-performance desktop DAC with a modern design. It embeds a Cirrus Logic CS43198 DAC chip, enabling it to support high-resolution sampling rates up to PCM 32bit 768kHz and native DSD up to DSD512. Headphone amplification relies on two SGM8262-2 OPAs and gain control for output power of up to 2x1015mW into 32 ohm on its balanced jack 4.4mm headphone output. The EH1 is therefore able to drive a wide range of headphones and earphones available on the market.

The interface features the essentials, with a USB input and a stereo RCA output, but a host of additional functions make the EH1 a DAC of choice, such as bass and treble tone control, UAC1.0 protocol support and a coaxial SPDIF digital output. To top it all off, two operating modes, Line-out or Pre-out, are available for the RCA output. This allows the Shanling EH1 to be used with a power amplifier, active speakers, preamplifier or integrated amplifier, for example.