Ether C Flow 1.1 vs Stealth: which needs more amplifier?

The Dan Clark Audio Ether C Flow 1.1 is 23Ω at 94.0 dB (no figure from the maker at all); the Dan Clark Audio Stealth is 23Ω at 90.0 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 Stealth needs 4.0 dB more than the Ether C Flow 1.1 to reach the same loudness — 10 mW against 4.0 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationEther C Flow 1.1Stealth
Impedance23 Ω23 Ω
Sensitivity94.0 dB90.0 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)110.4 dB/V106.4 dB/V
Power for 100 dB4.0 mW10 mW
Voltage for 100 dB0.30 V0.48 V
Current for 100 dB13.2 mA20.9 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
2.88 Ω2.88 Ω
Sources that reach 100 dB
out of 280
280279

One caution before reading the rows. For Dan Clark Audio Ether C Flow 1.1 the maker publishes no sensitivity figure at all. The number in the table was collected when this database was first built and has never been traced to a manufacturer document, so treat every row below it as an estimate rather than a specification.

Where the two part company

1 of the 280 sources has the power for the Ether C Flow 1.1 but not for the Stealth — Steinberg UR22C.

279 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: Dan Clark Audio Ether C Flow 1.1 and Dan Clark Audio Stealth. Each figure on this page is labelled on those pages with where it came from, including the ones Dan Clark Audio never published — what that maker publishes, counted.