FiiO BTR13 vs FiiO BTR15

Both are Bluetooth receivers, $59 against $109. 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?

On raw power they are level: each reaches 100 dB on 565 of the 567 non-electrostatic models here.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationFiiO BTR13FiiO BTR15
Power into 32Ω100 mW125 mW
Power into 150Ω21 mW28 mW
Power into 300Ω10.0 mW15 mW
Power into 600Ω5.0 mW7.5 mW
Output impedance0.6 Ω1.0 Ω
Output noise1.0 µV2.0 µV
Price$59$109
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
565565

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

On power they are interchangeable across this whole database: there is no headphone here that one reaches 100 dB on and the other does not.

14 headphones are left alone by the FiiO BTR13 under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the FiiO BTR15 (64 Audio Nio, 64 Audio Volur, Campfire Audio Andromeda 2023, 11 more).

5 headphones stay below the audible-hiss threshold on the FiiO BTR13 but cross it on the FiiO BTR15 (64 Audio Fourte, Campfire Audio Clara, Shure SE846, 2 more).

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: FiiO BTR13 and FiiO BTR15. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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