FiiO KA11 vs FiiO SnowSky Tiny B

Both are dongles, $29 against $22. 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 KA11 reaches 100 dB on 566 of the 567 models here, the FiiO SnowSky Tiny B on 554.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationFiiO KA11FiiO SnowSky Tiny B
Power into 32Ω200 mW34 mW
Power into 150Ω43 mW7.3 mW
Power into 300Ω22 mW3.6 mW
Power into 600Ω11 mW1.8 mW
Output impedance0.7 Ω1.0 Ω
Output noise1.7 µVnot published
Price$29$22
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
566554

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

12 headphones reach 100 dB on the FiiO KA11 but not on the FiiO SnowSky Tiny B — Beyerdynamic DT 880 Edition (600Ω), Beyerdynamic DT 990 Edition (600Ω), HiFiMAN HE-6se V2, 9 more.

11 headphones are left alone by the FiiO KA11 under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the FiiO SnowSky Tiny B (64 Audio Nio, 64 Audio Volur, Campfire Audio Andromeda 2023, 8 more).

554 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 KA11 and FiiO SnowSky Tiny B. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.