FiiO BTR15 vs Qudelix 5K

Both are Bluetooth receivers, $109 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?

The FiiO BTR15 reaches 100 dB on 565 of the 567 models here, the Qudelix 5K on 561.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationFiiO BTR15Qudelix 5K
Power into 32Ω125 mW125 mW
Power into 150Ω28 mW27 mW
Power into 300Ω15 mW13 mW
Power into 600Ω7.5 mW6.7 mW
Output impedance1.0 Ω0.4 Ω unverified
Output noise2.0 µV3 µV unverified
Price$109$109
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
565561

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

4 headphones reach 100 dB on the FiiO BTR15 but not on the Qudelix 5K — Moondrop COSMO, Symphonium Crimson, Symphonium Helios, 1 more.

561 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 BTR15 and Qudelix 5K. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.