ddHiFi TC35AL vs ddHiFi TC44 Pro E2

Both are dongles, $46 against $99. 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 ddHiFi TC44 Pro E2 reaches 100 dB on 565 of the 567 models here, the ddHiFi TC35AL on 564.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationddHiFi TC35ALddHiFi TC44 Pro E2
Power into 32Ω210 mW250 mW
Power into 150Ω45 mW53 mW
Power into 300Ω22 mW27 mW
Power into 600Ω11 mW13 mW
Output impedancenot publishednot published
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$46$99
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
564565

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 ddHiFi TC44 Pro E2 but not on the ddHiFi TC35AL — Symphonium Crimson.

564 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: ddHiFi TC35AL and ddHiFi TC44 Pro E2. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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