Celestee vs Clear MG Pro: which needs more amplifier?

The Focal Celestee is 35Ω at 105.0 dB/mW; the Focal Clear MG Pro is 55Ω at 104.0 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 Clear MG Pro needs 1.0 dB more than the Celestee to reach the same loudness — 0.40 mW against 0.32 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationCelesteeClear MG Pro
Impedance35 Ω55 Ω
Sensitivity105.0 dB/mW104.0 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)119.6 dB/V116.6 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.32 mW0.40 mW
Voltage for 100 dB0.11 V0.15 V
Current for 100 dB3.0 mA2.7 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
4.38 Ω6.88 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.

1 source is low enough in output impedance for the Clear MG Pro under the one-eighth rule but not for the Celestee (Shanling H5).

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: Focal Celestee and Focal Clear MG Pro. Every figure on this page comes from what Focal published, or is derived from it — what that maker publishes, counted.