Szalayi vs Traillii: which needs more amplifier?

The Oriolus Szalayi is 10Ω at 110.0 dB/mW; the Oriolus Traillii is 21Ω at 112.0 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 Szalayi needs 2.0 dB more than the Traillii to reach the same loudness — 0.10 mW against 0.06 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationSzalayiTraillii
Impedance10 Ω21 Ω
Sensitivity110.0 dB/mW112.0 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)130.0 dB/V128.8 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.10 mW0.06 mW
Voltage for 100 dB32 mV36 mV
Current for 100 dB3.2 mA1.7 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
1.25 Ω2.62 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.

8 sources are low enough in output impedance for the Traillii under the one-eighth rule but not for the Szalayi (FiiO KA13, Schiit Vali 2+, Astell&Kern HC3, 5 more).

4 sources stay below the audible-hiss threshold with the Traillii but cross it with the Szalayi (FiiO M15S, FiiO K19, FiiO M17, 1 more).

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: Oriolus Szalayi and Oriolus Traillii. Every figure on this page comes from what Oriolus published, or is derived from it — what that maker publishes, counted.