Kiwi Ears Allegro Mini vs Kiwi Ears Allegro Pro

Both are dongles, $24 against $60. 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 Kiwi Ears Allegro Pro reaches 100 dB on 554 of the 567 models here, the Kiwi Ears Allegro Mini on 547.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationKiwi Ears Allegro MiniKiwi Ears Allegro Pro
Power into 32Ω30 mW68 mW
Power into 150Ω6.4 mW15 mW
Power into 300Ω3.2 mW7.3 mW
Power into 600Ω1.6 mW3.6 mW
Output impedancenot publishednot published
Output noise3.0 µVnot published
Price$24$60
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
547554

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

7 headphones reach 100 dB on the Kiwi Ears Allegro Pro but not on the Kiwi Ears Allegro Mini — Beyerdynamic DT 880 Edition (600Ω), Beyerdynamic DT 990 Edition (600Ω), HiFiMAN Susvara Unveiled, 4 more.

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: Kiwi Ears Allegro Mini and Kiwi Ears Allegro Pro. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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