Violectric V222 vs Violectric V550 Pro

Both are desktop amplifiers, $1245 against $3600. 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 567 of the 567 non-electrostatic models here.

Every published figure, next to each other

SpecificationViolectric V222Violectric V550 Pro
Power into 32Ω2.7 W4.7 W
Power into 150Ω2.7 W2.9 W
Power into 300Ω1.8 W1.4 W
Power into 600Ω1.1 W740 mW
Output impedance0.25 Ω0.15 Ω
Output noise6.15 µV5.48 µV
Price$1245$3600
Headphones it reaches 100 dB on
out of 567
567567

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

On power they are interchangeable across this whole database: there is no headphone here that one reaches 100 dB on and the other does not.

23 headphones stay below the audible-hiss threshold on the Violectric V550 Pro but cross it on the Violectric V222 (64 Audio Volur, AFUL Performer 5, Audeze LCD-i4, 20 more).

567 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: Violectric V222 and Violectric V550 Pro. Or put either against your own headphones in the source comparison tool.

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