Audient EVO 16 vs Audient iD24

Both are audio interfaces, $750 against $599. 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 Audient iD24 reaches 100 dB on 561 of the 567 models here, the Audient EVO 16 on 558.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationAudient EVO 16Audient iD24
Power into 32Ω87 mW119 mW
Power into 150Ω49 mW80 mW
Power into 300Ω32 mW58 mW
Power into 600Ω24 mW52 mW
Output impedance50 Ω50 Ω
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$750$599
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
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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 Audient iD24 but not on the Audient EVO 16 — Moondrop PARA 2, Moondrop VENUS, Symphonium Triton.

558 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: Audient EVO 16 and Audient iD24. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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