Lake People G111 Mk II vs Schiit Valhalla 3

Both are desktop amplifiers, $629 against $499. 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 Schiit Valhalla 3 on 566.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationLake People G111 Mk IISchiit Valhalla 3
Power into 32Ω1.4 W750 mW
Power into 150Ω1.4 W286 mW
Power into 300Ω1.1 W250 mW
Power into 600Ω600 mW125 mW
Output impedance0.125 Ω25 Ω
Output noise6.9 µVnot published
Price$629$499
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 Lake People G111 Mk II but not on the Schiit Valhalla 3 — Symphonium Titan.

535 headphones are left alone by the Lake People G111 Mk II under the one-eighth rule but coloured by the Schiit Valhalla 3 (64 Audio Aspire 1, 64 Audio Fourte, 64 Audio Nio, 532 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 G111 Mk II and Schiit Valhalla 3. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.