Audient iD24 vs Universal Audio Volt 476P

Short answer

  • More power: the Audient iD24, with 119 mW into 32 Ω; the Universal Audio Volt 476P has 84 mW. The Audient iD24 drives 3 headphones to 100 dB that the Universal Audio Volt 476P cannot (Moondrop PARA 2, Moondrop VENUS, Symphonium Triton).
  • Hiss with sensitive IEMs: cannot be compared — neither maker publishes a noise figure.
  • Price: the Audient iD24 costs $10 more; what that buys on these numbers is set out further down, under What the price difference buys.

Both are audio interfaces, $599 against $589.

The Audient iD24 reaches 100 dB on 561 of the 567 models here, the Universal Audio Volt 476P on 558.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationAudient iD24Universal Audio Volt 476P
Power into 32Ω119 mW84 mW
Power into 150Ω80 mW28 mW
Power into 300Ω58 mW22 mW
Power into 600Ω52 mW12 mW
Output impedance50 Ωnot published
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$599$589
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 iD24Universal Audio Volt 476P
32 ΩDerivedPublished
150 ΩDerivedDerived
300 ΩDerivedPublished
600 ΩRecomputedPublished

Only one of these two columns starts from a power rating. Universal Audio Volt 476P publishes one at 32 Ω, at 300 Ω and at 600 Ω; Audient iD24 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 iD24 understates rather than flatters — but at 32 Ω, at 300 Ω and at 600 Ω are the only loads 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 iD24 but not on the Universal Audio Volt 476P — 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 Audio-Technica ATH-R70X: Audient iD24 has +15 dB of headroom there against +10 dB. 6 dB is about 3.6 times the power, which matters for peaks rather than for how loud the music sits.

The hiss columns are empty for Audient iD24 and Universal Audio Volt 476P because neither maker publishes no output noise figure.

HeadphoneImpedanceNeedsAudient iD24 headroomUniversal Audio Volt 476P headroomAudient iD24 hissUniversal Audio Volt 476P hiss
Shure SE8469 Ω0.04 mW+29 dB damping+28 dBnot publishednot published
Campfire Audio Andromeda 20209 Ω4.0 mW+9 dB damping+8 dBnot publishednot published
Audeze LCD-2 Classic70 Ω0.79 mW+22 dB damping+18 dBnot publishednot published
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro (250Ω)250 Ω0.63 mW+20 dB damping+16 dBnot publishednot published
HiFiMAN HE400se25 Ω7.9 mW+11 dB damping+9 dBnot publishednot published
Audio-Technica ATH-R70X470 Ω1.6 mW+15 dB+10 dBnot publishednot published
Sennheiser HD 600300 Ω6.6 mW+9 dB damping+5 dBnot publishednot published
HiFiMAN Susvara60 Ω50 mW+5 dB damping+0 dBnot publishednot published

The gap in dollars, against the gap in numbers

The Audient iD24 costs $10 more than the Universal Audio Volt 476P. 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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