Audient EVO 8 vs Tascam US-4x4HR

Both are audio interfaces, $249 against $249. 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 Tascam US-4x4HR reaches 100 dB on 553 of the 567 models here, the Audient EVO 8 on 543.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationAudient EVO 8Tascam US-4x4HR
Power into 32Ω22 mW45 mW
Power into 150Ω14 mW36 mW
Power into 300Ω11 mW24 mW
Power into 600Ω10 mW14 mW
Output impedance50 Ω51.5 Ω
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$249$249
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
543553

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

10 headphones reach 100 dB on the Tascam US-4x4HR but not on the Audient EVO 8 — Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Closed, Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Noire, Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Open, 7 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: Audient EVO 8 and Tascam US-4x4HR. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.