FiiO SnowSky Tiny A vs JadeAudio JA11

Both are dongles, $22 against $20. 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 SnowSky Tiny A reaches 100 dB on 550 of the 567 models here, the JadeAudio JA11 on 547.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationFiiO SnowSky Tiny AJadeAudio JA11
Power into 32Ω34 mW30 mW
Power into 150Ω7.3 mW6.4 mW
Power into 300Ω3.6 mW3.2 mW
Power into 600Ω1.8 mW1.6 mW
Output impedance0.5 Ω0.5 Ω
Output noisenot published1.7 µV
Price$22$20
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
550547

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

3 headphones reach 100 dB on the FiiO SnowSky Tiny A but not on the JadeAudio JA11 — Kinera Freya Vanir, Symphonium Giant, Thieaudio Hype 10.

547 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 SnowSky Tiny A and JadeAudio JA11. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.