Gustard H20 vs Rupert Neve RNHP

Both are desktop amplifiers, $929 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?

The Gustard H20 reaches 100 dB on 567 of the 567 models here, the Rupert Neve RNHP on 566.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationGustard H20Rupert Neve RNHP
Power into 32Ω12.0 W262 mW
Power into 150Ω2.7 W175 mW
Power into 300Ω1.3 W88 mW
Power into 600Ω670 mW44 mW
Output impedancenot published0.08 Ω
Output noisenot published8.03 µV
Price$929$699
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 Gustard H20 but not on the Rupert Neve RNHP — Symphonium Titan.

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: Gustard H20 and Rupert Neve RNHP. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.