FiiO K7 vs Fosi Audio K7

Both are desktop DAC/amps, $199 against $199. 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 K7 reaches 100 dB on 567 of the 567 models here, the Fosi Audio K7 on 566.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationFiiO K7Fosi Audio K7
Power into 32Ω1.2 W600 mW
Power into 150Ω269 mW128 mW
Power into 300Ω140 mW64 mW
Power into 600Ω70 mW32 mW
Output impedance1.0 Ωnot published
Output noise3.1 µV2.5 µV
Price$199$199
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 FiiO K7 but not on the Fosi Audio K7 — Symphonium Titan.

10 headphones stay below the audible-hiss threshold on the Fosi Audio K7 but cross it on the FiiO K7 (AFUL Performer 8, Campfire Audio Chimera, Dunu SA6 MKII, 7 more).

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 every power figure traced to what the maker published and a full headphone list: FiiO K7 and Fosi Audio K7. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.