PreSonus Studio 24c vs PreSonus Studio 68c

Both are audio interfaces, $149 against $299. 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 PreSonus Studio 68c reaches 100 dB on 558 of the 567 models here, the PreSonus Studio 24c on 552.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationPreSonus Studio 24cPreSonus Studio 68c
Power into 32Ω27 mW86 mW
Power into 150Ω18 mW56 mW
Power into 300Ω8.8 mW28 mW
Power into 600Ω4.4 mW14 mW
Output impedancenot publishednot published
Output noisenot publishednot published
Price$149$299
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
552558

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

6 headphones reach 100 dB on the PreSonus Studio 68c but not on the PreSonus Studio 24c — HiFiMAN HE-6se V2, HiFiMAN HE6 Remastered, HiFiMAN Susvara, 3 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: PreSonus Studio 24c and PreSonus Studio 68c. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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