SSL: what they publish

In this database3 sources
Figures from their own material6 of 9
Share67%

This page does not review anything SSL makes. It counts one thing: how much of what this database says about their products came out of their own documents, and how much had to be worked out or left blank.

The three figures that decide a match

ProductInto 32ΩOutput impedanceOutput noise
SSL 2 MkII374 mW1 Ωnot published
SSL 2 Plus MkII374 mW1 Ωnot published
SSL 121.2 W1 Ωnot published

Power decides whether it gets loud enough, output impedance decides whether it tilts the response of a multi-driver in-ear, and the noise figure decides whether you hear hiss with sensitive ones. All three fit on one line of a spec sheet; most of the industry prints one of them.

SSL publishes a power figure at a stated load on 3 of 3, output impedance on 3, a noise figure on 0. Of the 12 power figures this site displays for them at 32, 150, 300 and 600 Ω: 12 worked out by holding output voltage steady across loads.

What the paperwork adds up to

Most of what this site says about SSL came from them, with the rest derived and labelled as derived.

The rule used here is the same for every maker and is described on the manufacturer index. Every figure behind it can be opened on the product page it came from, with the document it came from linked.