SPL Phonitor se vs Wells Audio Milo

Both are desktop amplifiers, $1600 against $1700. 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 Wells Audio Milo reaches 100 dB on 567 of the 567 models here, the SPL Phonitor se on 566.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationSPL Phonitor seWells Audio Milo
Power into 32Ω1.0 W12.0 W
Power into 150Ω3.1 W3.1 W
Power into 300Ω4.2 W1.5 W
Power into 600Ω2.1 W767 mW
Output impedance0.18 Ω0.1 Ω
Output noise5.48 µV1.5 µV unverified
Price$1600$1700
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
566567

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

1 headphone reaches 100 dB on the Wells Audio Milo but not on the SPL Phonitor se — Symphonium Titan.

566 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: SPL Phonitor se and Wells Audio Milo. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.