EM10 vs EW300: which needs more amplifier?

The Simgot EM10 is 41.6Ω at 106.2 dB/mW; the Simgot EW300 is 28Ω at 105.5 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 EW300 needs 0.7 dB more than the EM10 to reach the same loudness — 0.28 mW against 0.24 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationEM10EW300
Impedance41.6 Ω28 Ω
Sensitivity106.2 dB/mW105.5 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)120.0 dB/V121.0 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.24 mW0.28 mW
Voltage for 100 dB100 mV89 mV
Current for 100 dB2.4 mA3.2 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
5.20 Ω3.50 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 EM10 under the one-eighth rule but not for the EW300 (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: Simgot EM10 and Simgot EW300. Each figure on this page is labelled on those pages with where it came from, including the ones Simgot never published — what that maker publishes, counted.