SHANLING CR60 CD Transport and Ripper

Overview

Shanling designs this transport to read audio CDs and pass the signal out over coaxial, optical or USB, with ripping to common file formats named in the title. A remote control comes in the box, and the unit has no headphone jack.

Three digital output types give it flexible placement ahead of a decoder, and recordable and rewritable discs are accepted. The limits are a single disc tray and the missing headphone and analog outputs. Software update support is listed as unknown.

Who it's for

Listeners who already own a decoder or streamer input and want a CD source with digital outputs. Buyers who need built-in analog sound, headphone listening or multi-disc changers should look at full CD players.

Pros and cons

Performance notes

A transport reads the disc and outputs the digital stream untouched, so sound quality depends on the decoder it feeds, not on this unit's analog stage. The output type decides what it can connect to: coaxial and optical suit standard digital inputs, while USB suits computers and streamers. Ripping turns tracks into files in the formats listed.

Where it stands among cd players

• #2 most-searched brand and model of the 14 cd players lines we track (by search demand, not sales).

From the specs of the 23 cd players we list; not a test result.

Specifications