Lake People G103-S Mk II vs Lake People G111 Mk II

Both are desktop amplifiers, $350 against $629. 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 Lake People G111 Mk II reaches 100 dB on 567 of the 567 models here, the Lake People G103-S Mk II on 566.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationLake People G103-S Mk IILake People G111 Mk II
Power into 32Ω1.0 W1.4 W
Power into 150Ω804 mW1.4 W
Power into 300Ω580 mW1.1 W
Power into 600Ω340 mW600 mW
Output impedance0.1 Ω0.125 Ω
Output noise6.15 µV6.9 µV
Price$350$629
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
566567

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 Lake People G111 Mk II but not on the Lake People G103-S Mk II — Symphonium Titan.

18 headphones stay below the audible-hiss threshold on the Lake People G103-S Mk II but cross it on the Lake People G111 Mk II (64 Audio Aspire 1, 64 Audio Ocean, AFUL Explorer, 15 more).

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: Lake People G103-S Mk II and Lake People G111 Mk II. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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