EM6L vs SuperMix 4: which needs more amplifier?

The Simgot EM6L is 26Ω at 103.1 dB/mW; the Simgot SuperMix 4 is 7.2Ω at 98.6 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 SuperMix 4 needs 4.5 dB more than the EM6L to reach the same loudness — 1.4 mW against 0.49 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationEM6LSuperMix 4
Impedance26 Ω7.2 Ω
Sensitivity103.1 dB/mW98.6 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)119.0 dB/V120.0 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.49 mW1.4 mW
Voltage for 100 dB0.11 V100 mV
Current for 100 dB4.3 mA13.8 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
3.25 Ω0.90 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.

45 sources are low enough in output impedance for the EM6L under the one-eighth rule but not for the SuperMix 4 (FiiO SnowSky Tiny B, FiiO KA13, FiiO BTR15, 42 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: Simgot EM6L and Simgot SuperMix 4. 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.