Marantz SACD 30n vs Naim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition

Both are desktop DAC/amps, $3500 against $3799. 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 Naim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition reaches 100 dB on 567 of the 567 models here, the Marantz SACD 30n on 552.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationMarantz SACD 30nNaim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition
Power into 32Ω50 mW750 mW
Power into 150Ω11 mW160 mW
Power into 300Ω5.3 mW80 mW
Power into 600Ω2.7 mW40 mW
Output impedancenot publishednot published
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$3500$3799
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
552567

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

15 headphones reach 100 dB on the Naim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition but not on the Marantz SACD 30n — HiFiMAN HE-6se V2, HiFiMAN HE6 Remastered, HiFiMAN Susvara, 12 more.

552 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: Marantz SACD 30n and Naim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.