Gustard H26 vs Singxer SA-1

Both are desktop amplifiers, $1099 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

SpecificationGustard H26Singxer SA-1
Power into 32Ω9.7 W5.5 W
Power into 150Ω2.1 W1.6 W
Power into 300Ω1.0 W785 mW
Power into 600Ω517 mW380 mW
Output impedance0.1 Ω1.4 Ω
Output noisenot published0.3 µV
Price$1099$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 Gustard H26 under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the Singxer SA-1 (64 Audio Aspire 1, 64 Audio Fourte, 64 Audio Nio, 48 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: Gustard H26 and Singxer SA-1. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.