Fourte vs U6t: which needs more amplifier?

The 64 Audio Fourte is 10Ω at 114.0 dB/mW; the 64 Audio U6t is 9Ω at 98.0 dB/mW. This page is only about what they ask of an amplifier — not how they sound, which no specification on either sheet can tell you.

The U6t needs 16.0 dB more than the Fourte to reach the same loudness — 1.6 mW against 0.04 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationFourteU6t
Impedance10 Ω9 Ω
Sensitivity114.0 dB/mW98.0 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)134.0 dB/V118.5 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.04 mW1.6 mW
Voltage for 100 dB20 mV0.12 V
Current for 100 dB2.0 mA13.3 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
1.25 Ω1.12 Ω
Sources that reach 100 dB
out of 280
280280

Where the two part company

Every source in the database that drives one of them drives the other. On power, the choice between these two changes nothing about what amplifier you need.

3 sources are low enough in output impedance for the Fourte under the one-eighth rule but not for the U6t (FiiO K11, FiiO BTR7, FiiO Q7).

38 sources stay below the audible-hiss threshold with the U6t but cross it with the Fourte (Kiwi Ears Allegro Mini, FiiO BTR11, FiiO KA13, 35 more).

280 of the 280 sources here reach 100 dB on both. That count is about power only — the output-impedance and hiss lines above are separate questions, and a source can pass this one and fail those.

Both pages in full

Each model has a page of its own with the full source list, the hiss estimate and the provenance of every figure above: 64 Audio Fourte and 64 Audio U6t. Every figure on this page comes from what 64 Audio published, or is derived from it — what that maker publishes, counted.