Tanchjim Space vs Tanchjim Stargate II

Both are dongles, $70 against $40. 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?

On raw power they are level: each reaches 100 dB on 561 of the 567 non-electrostatic models here.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationTanchjim SpaceTanchjim Stargate II
Power into 32Ω125 mW75 mW
Power into 150Ω27 mW16 mW
Power into 300Ω13 mW8.0 mW
Power into 600Ω6.7 mW4.0 mW
Output impedancenot publishednot published
Output noise1.1 µVnot published
Price$70$40
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
561561

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

2 headphones reach 100 dB on the Tanchjim Space but not on the Tanchjim Stargate II — HiFiMAN Susvara, Moondrop SKYLAND.

2 headphones reach 100 dB on the Tanchjim Stargate II but not on the Tanchjim Space — Moondrop COSMO, Symphonium Zenith.

559 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: Tanchjim Space and Tanchjim Stargate II. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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