FiiO M11S vs Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA

Both are portable players, $499 against $350. 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 M11S reaches 100 dB on 566 of the 567 models here, the Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA on 561.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationFiiO M11SMoondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA
Power into 32Ω200 mW112 mW
Power into 150Ω44 mW24 mW
Power into 300Ω23 mW12 mW
Power into 600Ω12 mW6.0 mW
Output impedance1.5 Ωnot published
Output noise1.8 µVnot published
Price$499$350
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
566561

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

5 headphones reach 100 dB on the FiiO M11S but not on the Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA — Moondrop COSMO, Moondrop PARA, Symphonium Crimson, 2 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 M11S and Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.