Magni vs Thror: which needs more amplifier?

The Kennerton Magni is 32Ω at 96.0 dB (no figure from the maker at all); the Kennerton Thror is 40Ω at 100.0 dB (no figure from the maker at all). 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 Magni needs 4.0 dB more than the Thror to reach the same loudness — 2.5 mW against 1.0 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationMagniThror
Impedance32 Ω40 Ω
Sensitivity96.0 dB100.0 dB
Sensitivity (voltage)110.9 dB/V114.0 dB/V
Power for 100 dB2.5 mW1.0 mW
Voltage for 100 dB0.28 V0.20 V
Current for 100 dB8.9 mA5.0 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
4.00 Ω5.00 Ω
Sources that reach 100 dB
out of 280
280280

One caution before reading the rows. For Kennerton Magni and Kennerton Thror 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

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 Thror under the one-eighth rule but not for the Magni (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: Kennerton Magni and Kennerton Thror. Each figure on this page is labelled on those pages with where it came from, including the ones Kennerton never published — what that maker publishes, counted.