M-Audio AIR 192|14 vs Roland BRIDGE CAST

Both are audio interfaces, $329 against $340. 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 M-Audio AIR 192|14 reaches 100 dB on 563 of the 567 models here, the Roland BRIDGE CAST on 558.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationM-Audio AIR 192|14Roland BRIDGE CAST
Power into 32Ω160 mW78 mW
Power into 150Ω34 mW36 mW
Power into 300Ω17 mW29 mW
Power into 600Ω8.5 mW15 mW
Output impedancenot published10 Ω
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$329$340
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
563558

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

5 headphones reach 100 dB on the M-Audio AIR 192|14 but not on the Roland BRIDGE CAST — Moondrop COSMO, Moondrop PARA 2, Moondrop VENUS, 2 more.

558 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: M-Audio AIR 192|14 and Roland BRIDGE CAST. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.