Grace Design m900 vs Singxer SA-1

Both are desktop amplifiers, $660 against $699. 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?

On raw power they are level: each reaches 100 dB on 567 of the 567 non-electrostatic models here.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationGrace Design m900Singxer SA-1
Power into 32Ω1.0 W5.5 W
Power into 150Ω228 mW1.6 W
Power into 300Ω115 mW785 mW
Power into 600Ω57 mW380 mW
Output impedance0.08 Ω1.4 Ω
Output noise5.01 µV0.3 µV
Price$660$699
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
567567

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

On power they are interchangeable across this whole database: there is no headphone here that one reaches 100 dB on and the other does not.

51 headphones are left alone by the Grace Design m900 under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the Singxer SA-1 (64 Audio Aspire 1, 64 Audio Fourte, 64 Audio Nio, 48 more).

61 headphones stay below the audible-hiss threshold on the Singxer SA-1 but cross it on the Grace Design m900 (64 Audio Fourte, 64 Audio Nio, 64 Audio U12t, 58 more).

567 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: Grace Design m900 and Singxer SA-1. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.