ART HeadAmp 4 Pro vs Fosi Audio SK02

Both are desktop amplifiers, $130 against $100. This page puts them side by side on the only three things a maker can be held to — power, output impedance and noise — and then asks the question that actually matters: which headphones do they treat differently?

The Fosi Audio SK02 reaches 100 dB on 564 of the 567 models here, the ART HeadAmp 4 Pro on 561.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationART HeadAmp 4 ProFosi Audio SK02
Power into 32Ω98 mW190 mW
Power into 150Ω67 mW41 mW
Power into 300Ω33 mW20 mW
Power into 600Ω17 mW10 mW
Output impedance47.0 Ωnot published
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$130$100
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
561564

A figure marked not published is missing from the maker’s own material, which is not the same as being good or bad. Where one of these two publishes a number and the other does not, the comparison on that axis cannot be made at all — and saying so is more useful than guessing.

The headphones that tell them apart

3 headphones reach 100 dB on the Fosi Audio SK02 but not on the ART HeadAmp 4 Pro — Moondrop COSMO, Symphonium Helios, Symphonium Zenith.

561 of the 567 models here reach 100 dB on both. That is a power count and nothing more; whether either source suits a given headphone also depends on the two lines above.

Both pages in full

Each has a page of its own with every power figure traced to what the maker published and a full headphone list: ART HeadAmp 4 Pro and Fosi Audio SK02. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.