ddHiFi TC44Grip vs Questyle M15

Both are dongles, $160 against $250. 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 Questyle M15 reaches 100 dB on 565 of the 567 models here, the ddHiFi TC44Grip on 557.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationddHiFi TC44GripQuestyle M15
Power into 32Ω80 mW300 mW
Power into 150Ω17 mW110 mW
Power into 300Ω8.5 mW55 mW
Power into 600Ω4.3 mW28 mW
Output impedancenot published0.5 Ω unverified
Output noisenot published3 µV unverified
Price$160$250
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
557565

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

8 headphones reach 100 dB on the Questyle M15 but not on the ddHiFi TC44Grip — HiFiMAN Susvara, Moondrop COSMO, Moondrop PARA 2, 5 more.

557 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 Questyle M15 has published no electrical specification at all and everything above comes from independent measurement: ddHiFi TC44Grip and Questyle M15. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.