Arturia MiniFuse 1 vs Audient EVO 4

Both are audio interfaces, $149 against $129. 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 Arturia MiniFuse 1 reaches 100 dB on 562 of the 567 models here, the Audient EVO 4 on 543.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationArturia MiniFuse 1Audient EVO 4
Power into 32Ω139 mW22 mW
Power into 150Ω45 mW14 mW
Power into 300Ω24 mW11 mW
Power into 600Ω12 mW10 mW
Output impedance10 Ω50 Ω
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$149$129
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
562543

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

19 headphones reach 100 dB on the Arturia MiniFuse 1 but not on the Audient EVO 4 — Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Closed, Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Noire, Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Open, 16 more.

51 headphones are left alone by the Arturia MiniFuse 1 under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the Audient EVO 4 (AKG K612 Pro, Audeze LCD-3, Audeze LCD-4, 48 more).

543 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: Arturia MiniFuse 1 and Audient EVO 4. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.