Amiron Home vs DJ 300 PRO X: which needs more amplifier?

The Beyerdynamic Amiron Home is 250Ω at 102.0 dB/mW; the Beyerdynamic DJ 300 PRO X is 48Ω at 115.0 dB (no reference unit printed). This page covers what they ask of an amplifier, not how they sound.

The Amiron Home needs 13.0 dB more than the DJ 300 PRO X to reach the same loudness — 0.63 mW against 0.03 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationAmiron HomeDJ 300 PRO X
Impedance250 Ω48 Ω
Sensitivity102.0 dB/mW115.0 dB
Sensitivity (voltage)108.0 dB/V128.2 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.63 mW0.03 mW
Voltage for 100 dB0.40 V39 mV
Current for 100 dB1.6 mA0.8 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
31.25 Ω6.00 Ω
Sources that reach 100 dB
out of 280
280280

One caution before reading the rows. Beyerdynamic DJ 300 PRO X printed a decibel figure with no reference unit, so this page reads it as per milliwatt. If it is really per volt, that model needs far more than the table says. Why the two readings differ by so much.

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.

18 sources are low enough in output impedance for the Amiron Home under the one-eighth rule but not for the DJ 300 PRO X (Zoom AMS-22, Arturia MiniFuse 2, Arturia MiniFuse 1, 15 more).

19 sources stay below the audible-hiss threshold with the Amiron Home but cross it with the DJ 300 PRO X (FiiO BTR11, FiiO K11 R2R, Lake People G103-S Mk II, 16 more).

280 of the 280 sources here reach 100 dB on both.

What each one needs from 80 to 105 dB

The Amiron Home is more demanding than 82% of the 567 non-electrostatic models in this database; the DJ 300 PRO X than 6%.

dB SPLAmiron Home powerAmiron Home voltageDJ 300 PRO X powerDJ 300 PRO X voltage
806.3 µW40 mV0.3 µW4 mV
850.02 mW71 mV1.0 µW7 mV
900.06 mW0.13 V3.2 µW12 mV
950.20 mW0.22 V0.01 mW22 mV
1000.63 mW0.40 V0.03 mW39 mV
1052.0 mW0.71 V0.10 mW69 mV

The cheapest source that satisfies both

SourcePriceHeadroom, Amiron HomeHeadroom, DJ 300 PRO XOutput impedanceNoise
JadeAudio JA11$207.8 dB28.0 dB0.5 Ω1.7 µV
FiiO KA11$2916.2 dB36.3 dB0.7 Ω1.7 µV
FiiO BTR13$5912.8 dB33.2 dB0.6 Ω1.0 µV

Of the 280 sources here, 280 reach 100 dB on both. 53 of them also publish an output impedance low enough for both under the one-eighth rule and a noise figure that stays below the audible-hiss threshold with both.

The cheapest of the 53 is the JadeAudio JA11, at $20. It leaves 7.8 dB of headroom on the Amiron Home and 28.0 dB on the DJ 300 PRO X, its output impedance is 0.5 Ω against a one-eighth limit of 31.25 Ω and 6.00 Ω, and its noise figure puts the hiss floor 27 dB and 7 dB below the 20 dB SPL this site treats as the point where a quiet room stops hiding it.

Try any other source.

What each sheet prints, and what it is worth

ModelAs printedToleranceStandard
Amiron Home5-40,000 Hznot printednot printed
DJ 300 PRO X5 - 35,000 Hznot printednot printed

Beyerdynamic prints 5-40,000 Hz for the Amiron Home and 5 - 35,000 Hz for the DJ 300 PRO X.

Neither range has a tolerance printed beside it, so a wider range on one sheet is not deeper bass or more treble.

Not a measurement; maker by maker.

Both pages in full

Both have a page of their own. In full: Beyerdynamic Amiron Home and Beyerdynamic DJ 300 PRO X. Each figure on this page is labelled on those pages with where it came from, including the ones Beyerdynamic never published — what that maker publishes, counted.

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