Astell&Kern SP3000 vs Luxury & Precision P6 Pro

Both are portable players, $3700 against $3899. 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 Luxury & Precision P6 Pro reaches 100 dB on 566 of the 567 models here, the Astell&Kern SP3000 on 565.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationAstell&Kern SP3000Luxury & Precision P6 Pro
Power into 32Ω340 mW180 mW
Power into 150Ω73 mW39 mW
Power into 300Ω36 mW20 mW
Power into 600Ω18 mW10.0 mW
Output impedance0.7 Ω0.2 Ω
Output noise3 µV unverifiednot published
Price$3700$3899
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
565566

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

1 headphone reaches 100 dB on the Luxury & Precision P6 Pro but not on the Astell&Kern SP3000 — Moondrop PARA.

4 headphones are left alone by the Luxury & Precision P6 Pro under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the Astell&Kern SP3000 (Campfire Audio Chimera, Moondrop Armature Art 12, Softears Volume, 1 more).

565 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: Astell&Kern SP3000 and Luxury & Precision P6 Pro. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.