This page does not review anything Kennerton makes. It counts one thing: how much of what this database says about their products came out of their own documents, and how much had to be worked out or left blank.
| Model | Impedance | Sensitivity | Source of the figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magni | 32 Ω | 96.0 dB | Maker document unreachable |
| Odin MK3 | 42 Ω | 100.0 dB | Maker document unreachable |
| Thror | 40 Ω | 100.0 dB | Maker document unreachable |
| Wodan | 32 Ω | 100.0 dB | Maker document unreachable |
Impedance is almost always printed. Sensitivity is the one that goes wrong, because a decibel figure means two very different things depending on whether it is per milliwatt or per volt — about five decibels apart at 300 Ω and eighteen at 16 Ω. The conversion is here.
The hardest of the 4 to drive is the Kennerton Magni: 2.5 mW and 0.28 V for a 100 dB SPL peak. Their impedances run from 32 to 42 Ω, which matters because the voltage a headphone wants rises with impedance while the power falls.
280 of the 280 sources here reach 100 dB on all 4, and the cheapest of them is the Apple USB-C dongle (EU) at $9. “Reaches” means the maker’s own published power figure is enough at that load; it is not a judgement of how it sounds.
Their lowest impedance is the Kennerton Magni at 32 Ω, so a source wants an output impedance at or below 4.0 Ω to satisfy the one-eighth rule on everything they make. 134 of the 169 sources that publish an output impedance manage that.
These counts use figures the source makers published themselves. A product that publishes nothing is not counted as a pass anywhere above, which is why the three numbers differ so much. The collection matcher runs the same arithmetic over whatever you actually own.
Very little of what this site says about Kennerton came from them. That is not an accusation about how their products sound — it is a statement about their paperwork, and it is the reason those pages carry so many qualifiers.
The rule used here is the same for every maker and is described on the manufacturer index. Every figure behind it can be opened on the product page it came from, with the document it came from linked.