Audient iD14 MkII vs Roland BRIDGE CAST

Short answer

  • More power: the Audient iD14 MkII, with 112 mW into 32 Ω; the Roland BRIDGE CAST has 78 mW. The Audient iD14 MkII drives 3 headphones to 100 dB that the Roland BRIDGE CAST cannot (Moondrop PARA 2, Moondrop VENUS, Symphonium Triton).
  • Hiss with sensitive IEMs: cannot be compared — neither maker publishes a noise figure.
  • Price: the Audient iD14 MkII costs $9 more; what that buys on these numbers is set out further down, under What the price difference buys.

Both are audio interfaces, $349 against $340.

The Audient iD14 MkII reaches 100 dB on 561 of the 567 models here, the Roland BRIDGE CAST on 558.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationAudient iD14 MkIIRoland BRIDGE CAST
Power into 32Ω112 mW78 mW
Power into 150Ω75 mW36 mW
Power into 300Ω55 mW29 mW
Power into 600Ω50 mW15 mW
Output impedancenot published10 Ω
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$349$340
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
561558

Not published means the maker leaves it out, so that axis cannot be compared.

Where each power figure comes from

LoadAudient iD14 MkIIRoland BRIDGE CAST
32 ΩDerivedPublished
150 ΩDerivedDerived
300 ΩDerivedDerived
600 ΩRecomputedDerived

Only one of these two columns starts from a power rating. Roland BRIDGE CAST publishes one at 32 Ω; Audient iD14 MkII publishes none at any of these four loads, so its column is worked out from power it published at other loads. Both are arithmetic on a maker’s own figures rather than guesses, and the method used for the Audient iD14 MkII understates rather than flatters — but at 32 Ω is the only load here at which its maker can be held to a figure.

What the labels mean.

The headphones that tell them apart

3 headphones reach 100 dB on the Audient iD14 MkII but not on the Roland BRIDGE CAST — Moondrop PARA 2, Moondrop VENUS, Symphonium Triton.

558 of the 567 models here reach 100 dB on both.

Headroom and hiss on 8 models, both sources

Headroom is at a 100 dB SPL peak.

The widest gap on the list is the Audeze LCD-2 Classic: Audient iD14 MkII has +22 dB of headroom there against +18 dB. 4 dB is about 2.7 times the power, which matters for peaks rather than for how loud the music sits.

The hiss columns are empty for Audient iD14 MkII and Roland BRIDGE CAST because neither maker publishes no output noise figure.

HeadphoneImpedanceNeedsAudient iD14 MkII headroomRoland BRIDGE CAST headroomAudient iD14 MkII hissRoland BRIDGE CAST hiss
Shure SE8469 Ω0.04 mW+29 dB+27 dB dampingnot publishednot published
Campfire Audio Andromeda 20209 Ω4.0 mW+9 dB+7 dB dampingnot publishednot published
Audeze LCD-2 Classic70 Ω0.79 mW+22 dB+18 dB dampingnot publishednot published
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro (250Ω)250 Ω0.63 mW+20 dB+17 dBnot publishednot published
HiFiMAN HE400se25 Ω7.9 mW+11 dB+9 dB dampingnot publishednot published
Audio-Technica ATH-R70X470 Ω1.6 mW+15 dB+11 dBnot publishednot published
Sennheiser HD 600300 Ω6.6 mW+9 dB+6 dBnot publishednot published
HiFiMAN Susvara60 Ω50 mW+4 dB+0 dB dampingnot publishednot published

The gap in dollars, against the gap in numbers

The Audient iD14 MkII costs $9 more than the Roland BRIDGE CAST. Out of the 567 models here, that difference buys 3 more models driven to 100 dB.

Nothing runs the other way: there is no axis here on which the cheaper of the two does better.

Only published figures count here; blank axes are counted separately.

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