Arturia MiniFuse 2 vs Zoom AMS-24

Both are audio interfaces, $149 against $150. 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 2 reaches 100 dB on 562 of the 567 models here, the Zoom AMS-24 on 549.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationArturia MiniFuse 2Zoom AMS-24
Power into 32Ω139 mW30 mW
Power into 150Ω45 mW9.7 mW
Power into 300Ω24 mW5.2 mW
Power into 600Ω12 mW2.7 mW
Output impedance10 Ω10 Ω
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$149$150
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
562549

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

13 headphones reach 100 dB on the Arturia MiniFuse 2 but not on the Zoom AMS-24 — HiFiMAN HE-6se V2, HiFiMAN HE6 Remastered, HiFiMAN Susvara, 10 more.

549 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 2 and Zoom AMS-24. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.