Cayin HA-6A vs Ferrum OOR

Both are desktop amplifiers, $1800 against $1995. 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 Cayin HA-6A reaches 100 dB on 567 of the 567 models here, the Ferrum OOR on 566.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationCayin HA-6AFerrum OOR
Power into 32Ω3.0 W1.1 W
Power into 150Ω1.5 W800 mW
Power into 300Ω900 mW400 mW
Power into 600Ω450 mW200 mW
Output impedance2 Ω unverified0.3 Ω
Output noise25 µV unverified1.5 µV unverified
Price$1800$1995
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
567566

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 Cayin HA-6A but not on the Ferrum OOR — Symphonium Titan.

566 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 a full headphone list and the provenance of every figure — worth opening here, because Cayin HA-6A has published no electrical specification at all and everything above comes from independent measurement: Cayin HA-6A and Ferrum OOR. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.