Euclid vs LCD-i4: which needs more amplifier?

The Audeze Euclid is 12Ω at 105.0 dB/mW; the Audeze LCD-i4 is 32Ω at 110.0 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 Euclid needs 5.0 dB more than the LCD-i4 to reach the same loudness — 0.32 mW against 0.10 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationEuclidLCD-i4
Impedance12 Ω32 Ω
Sensitivity105.0 dB/mW110.0 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)124.2 dB/V124.9 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.32 mW0.10 mW
Voltage for 100 dB62 mV57 mV
Current for 100 dB5.1 mA1.8 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
1.50 Ω4.00 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.

5 sources are low enough in output impedance for the LCD-i4 under the one-eighth rule but not for the Euclid (FiiO KA13, Schiit Vali 2+, Astell&Kern HC3, 2 more).

3 sources stay below the audible-hiss threshold with the Euclid but cross it with the LCD-i4 (Lake People G103-S Mk II, Violectric V222, Violectric V226).

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: Audeze Euclid and Audeze LCD-i4. Every figure on this page comes from what Audeze published, or is derived from it — what that maker publishes, counted.