Armature Art 24 vs Blessing 2 Dusk: which needs more amplifier?

The Moondrop Armature Art 24 is 5.8Ω at 96.6 dB/mW; the Moondrop Blessing 2 Dusk is 22Ω at 106.0 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 Armature Art 24 needs 9.4 dB more than the Blessing 2 Dusk to reach the same loudness — 2.2 mW against 0.25 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationArmature Art 24Blessing 2 Dusk
Impedance5.8 Ω22 Ω
Sensitivity96.6 dB/mW106.0 dB
Sensitivity (voltage)119.0 dB/V122.6 dB/V
Power for 100 dB2.2 mW0.25 mW
Voltage for 100 dB0.11 V74 mV
Current for 100 dB19.4 mA3.4 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
0.72 Ω2.75 Ω
Sources that reach 100 dB
out of 280
279280

One caution before reading the rows. For Moondrop Blessing 2 Dusk 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 Blessing 2 Dusk but not for the Armature Art 24 — Steinberg UR22C.

49 sources are low enough in output impedance for the Blessing 2 Dusk under the one-eighth rule but not for the Armature Art 24 (FiiO SnowSky Tiny B, FiiO KA13, FiiO KA15, 46 more).

2 sources stay below the audible-hiss threshold with the Armature Art 24 but cross it with the Blessing 2 Dusk (FiiO BTR11, Rupert Neve RNHP).

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: Moondrop Armature Art 24 and Moondrop Blessing 2 Dusk. Each figure on this page is labelled on those pages with where it came from, including the ones Moondrop never published — what that maker publishes, counted.