Tangzu: what they publish

In this database7 headphones
Figures from their own material1 of 7
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This page does not review anything Tangzu 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.

Where each sensitivity figure came from

ModelImpedanceSensitivitySource of the figure
Fudu Verse 116 Ω106.0 dBUnit not stated
Li Zhi18 Ω107.5 dBUnit not stated
OX Demon King25 Ω92.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
The King Wukong22 Ω112.0 dBUnit not stated
Tianpeng9.8 Ω104.0 dBUnit not stated
Xuan Nv8.5 Ω98.0 dBUnit not stated
Zetian Wu16 Ω100.0 dBUnit not stated from a shop listing

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.

  • Published per mW — 1: the maker prints a decibel figure per milliwatt, which is what the database stores
  • Unit not stated — 6: the maker prints a decibel figure with no reference unit, so it is shown as printed and flagged rather than quietly converted
  • From a shop listing — 1: the figure is not on any page Tangzu publishes. The label beside it says which unit the figure is in; it does not say the maker printed it. Those pages name the shop and say so.

What they print, and what it is worth

ModelAs printedToleranceStandard
Fudu Verse 120 Hz - 20 kHznot printednot printed
Li Zhi20Hz-20.000kHznot printednot printed
OX Demon King10Hz-40,000Hznot printednot printed
The King Wukong20Hz-20kHznot printednot printed
Tianpeng20Hz-20kHznot printednot printed
Xuan Nv7Hz-20kHznot printednot printed
Zetian Wu20- 20khznot printednot printed

Tangzu prints a frequency range for all 7 models here whose sheets have been read.

Not one of those ranges comes with a tolerance in decibels. Without a ±dB figure a range says nothing about how loud the headphone is at either end of it, which puts Tangzu with the majority: of the 490 models across this database whose maker prints a range, 58 print the tolerance.

The rows are not even called the same thing twice: 3 different headings across 7 models (“FR range”, “Frequency Range”, “Frequency Response Range”).

1 of these figures stand on a shop listing rather than on anything Tangzu published; those model pages name the shop.

No measurement is published here — only what was printed. The whole count, maker by maker, is in the frequency response audit.

What reaches 100 dB on all 7

The hardest of the 7 to drive is the Tangzu OX Demon King: 6.3 mW and 0.40 V for a 100 dB SPL peak. Their impedances run from 8.5 to 25 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 7, 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.

On hiss the count is smaller, because most of the industry does not publish a noise figure at all: of the 83 sources here that do, 64 stay under the threshold of hearing on all 6 of their in-ears. The one to watch is the Tangzu The King Wukong at 129 dB/V — the more sensitive the in-ear, the more of the amplifier’s own noise you hear.

Their lowest impedance is the Tangzu Xuan Nv at 8.5 Ω, so a source wants an output impedance at or below 1.1 Ω to satisfy the one-eighth rule on everything they make. 122 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.

What the paperwork adds up to

Very little of what this site says about Tangzu 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.

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