Audient iD44 MkII vs Audient ORIA

Both are audio interfaces, $809 against $3500. 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 ORIA reaches 100 dB on 566 of the 567 models here, the Audient iD44 MkII on 565.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationAudient iD44 MkIIAudient ORIA
Power into 32Ω190 mW979 mW
Power into 150Ω40 mW385 mW
Power into 300Ω42 mW210 mW
Power into 600Ω54 mW123 mW
Output impedance50 Ω50 Ω
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$809$3500
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 Audient ORIA but not on the Audient iD44 MkII — Moondrop PARA.

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: Audient iD44 MkII and Audient ORIA. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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