Lake People G111 Mk II vs Topping A90 Discrete

Both are desktop amplifiers, $629 against $599. 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

SpecificationLake People G111 Mk IITopping A90 Discrete
Power into 32Ω1.4 W2.0 W
Power into 150Ω1.4 W480 mW
Power into 300Ω1.1 W250 mW
Power into 600Ω600 mW125 mW
Output impedance0.125 Ω0.1 Ω
Output noise6.9 µV0.2 µV
Price$629$599
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.

116 headphones stay below the audible-hiss threshold on the Topping A90 Discrete but cross it on the Lake People G111 Mk II (64 Audio Aspire 1, 64 Audio Fourte, 64 Audio Nio, 113 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: Lake People G111 Mk II and Topping A90 Discrete. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.