Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA vs TempoTec Variations V6

Both are portable players, $350 against $369. 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 TempoTec Variations V6 reaches 100 dB on 565 of the 567 models here, the Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA on 561.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationMoondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRATempoTec Variations V6
Power into 32Ω112 mW330 mW
Power into 150Ω24 mW70 mW
Power into 300Ω12 mW35 mW
Power into 600Ω6.0 mW18 mW
Output impedancenot publishednot published
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$350$369
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
561565

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

4 headphones reach 100 dB on the TempoTec Variations V6 but not on the Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA — Moondrop COSMO, Symphonium Crimson, Symphonium Helios, 1 more.

561 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: Moondrop DISCDREAM2 ULTRA and TempoTec Variations V6. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.