Fudu Verse 1 vs The King Wukong: which needs more amplifier?

The Tangzu Fudu Verse 1 is 16Ω at 106.0 dB (no reference unit printed); the Tangzu The King Wukong is 22Ω at 112.0 dB (no reference unit printed). This page covers what they ask of an amplifier, not how they sound.

The Fudu Verse 1 needs 6.0 dB more than the The King Wukong to reach the same loudness — 0.25 mW against 0.06 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationFudu Verse 1The King Wukong
Impedance16 Ω22 Ω
Sensitivity106.0 dB112.0 dB
Sensitivity (voltage)124.0 dB/V128.6 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.25 mW0.06 mW
Voltage for 100 dB63 mV37 mV
Current for 100 dB4.0 mA1.7 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
2.00 Ω2.75 Ω
Sources that reach 100 dB
out of 280
280280

One caution before reading the rows. Tangzu Fudu Verse 1 and Tangzu The King Wukong printed a decibel figure with no reference unit, so this page reads it as per milliwatt. If it is really per volt, each of them needs far more than the table says. Why the two readings differ by so much.

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.

14 sources stay below the audible-hiss threshold with the Fudu Verse 1 but cross it with the The King Wukong (Lake People G103-S Mk II, Schiit Valhalla 3, Grace Design m900, 11 more).

280 of the 280 sources here reach 100 dB on both.

What each one needs from 80 to 105 dB

The Fudu Verse 1 is more demanding than 18% of the 567 non-electrostatic models in this database; the The King Wukong than 5%.

dB SPLFudu Verse 1 powerFudu Verse 1 voltageThe King Wukong powerThe King Wukong voltage
802.5 µW6 mV0.6 µW4 mV
857.9 µW11 mV2.0 µW7 mV
900.03 mW20 mV6.3 µW12 mV
950.08 mW36 mV0.02 mW21 mV
1000.25 mW63 mV0.06 mW37 mV
1050.79 mW0.11 V0.20 mW66 mV

The cheapest source that satisfies both

SourcePriceHeadroom, Fudu Verse 1Headroom, The King WukongOutput impedanceNoise
JadeAudio JA11$2017.8 dB25.1 dB0.5 Ω1.7 µV
FiiO KA11$2929.9 dB35.4 dB0.7 Ω1.7 µV
FiiO BTR13$5926.8 dB32.3 dB0.6 Ω1.0 µV

Of the 280 sources here, 280 reach 100 dB on both. 53 of them also publish an output impedance low enough for both under the one-eighth rule and a noise figure that stays below the audible-hiss threshold with both.

The cheapest of the 53 is the JadeAudio JA11, at $20. It leaves 17.8 dB of headroom on the Fudu Verse 1 and 25.1 dB on the The King Wukong, its output impedance is 0.5 Ω against a one-eighth limit of 2.00 Ω and 2.75 Ω, and its noise figure puts the hiss floor 11 dB and 7 dB below the 20 dB SPL this site treats as the point where a quiet room stops hiding it.

Try any other source.

What each sheet prints, and what it is worth

ModelAs printedToleranceStandard
Fudu Verse 120 Hz - 20 kHznot printednot printed
The King Wukong20Hz-20kHznot printednot printed

Tangzu prints 20 Hz - 20 kHz for the Fudu Verse 1 and 20Hz-20kHz for the The King Wukong.

Neither range has a tolerance printed beside it, so a wider range on one sheet is not deeper bass or more treble.

Not a measurement; maker by maker.

Both pages in full

Both have a page of their own. In full: Tangzu Fudu Verse 1 and Tangzu The King Wukong. Each figure on this page is labelled on those pages with where it came from, including the ones Tangzu never published — what that maker publishes, counted.

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