The HiFiMAN Susvara is 60Ω at 83.0 dB (no reference unit printed); the ZMF Verite Closed is 300Ω at 99.0 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 HiFiMAN Susvara needs 16.0 dB more than the ZMF Verite Closed to reach the same loudness — 50 mW against 1.3 mW.
| Specification | HiFiMAN Susvara | ZMF Verite Closed |
|---|---|---|
| Impedance | 60 Ω | 300 Ω |
| Sensitivity | 83.0 dB | 99.0 dB/mW |
| Sensitivity (voltage) | 95.2 dB/V | 104.2 dB/V |
| Power for 100 dB | 50 mW | 1.3 mW |
| Voltage for 100 dB | 1.73 V | 0.61 V |
| Current for 100 dB | 28.9 mA | 2.0 mA |
| Highest source impedance that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule) | 7.50 Ω | 37.50 Ω |
| Sources that reach 100 dB out of 280 | 231 | 280 |
One caution before reading the rows. HiFiMAN Susvara printed a decibel figure with no reference unit, so this page reads it as per milliwatt. If it is really per volt, that model needs far more than the table says. Why the two readings differ by so much.
49 of the 280 sources have the power for the ZMF Verite Closed but not for the HiFiMAN Susvara — Apple USB-C dongle (US), Apple USB-C dongle (EU), Generic CX31993 dongles, 46 more.
19 sources are low enough in output impedance for the ZMF Verite Closed under the one-eighth rule but not for the HiFiMAN Susvara (Zoom AMS-22, Arturia MiniFuse 2, Arturia MiniFuse 1, 16 more).
231 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.
The gap between these two in decibels does not change with volume — it is a property of the two headphones. What changes is the size of the numbers, and it changes fast: every 10 dB costs ten times the power. The row that matters is the one nearest the level you listen at, and for most people that is nearer the top of this table than the bottom.
The HiFiMAN Susvara is more demanding than 99% of the 567 non-electrostatic models in this database; the ZMF Verite Closed than 91%. Both figures use the same measure as the rest of the site: whichever runs out first against a 2 V, 100 mW dongle, voltage or power.
| dB SPL | HiFiMAN Susvara power | HiFiMAN Susvara voltage | ZMF Verite Closed power | ZMF Verite Closed voltage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 0.50 mW | 0.17 V | 0.01 mW | 61 mV |
| 85 | 1.6 mW | 0.31 V | 0.04 mW | 0.11 V |
| 90 | 5.0 mW | 0.55 V | 0.13 mW | 0.19 V |
| 95 | 16 mW | 0.98 V | 0.40 mW | 0.35 V |
| 100 | 50 mW | 1.73 V | 1.3 mW | 0.61 V |
| 105 | 158 mW | 3.08 V | 4.0 mW | 1.09 V |
105 dB is included because forum power figures are usually quoted there or higher. It is also a level that damages hearing in minutes — how many minutes is its own calculator.
| Source | Price | Headroom, HiFiMAN Susvara | Headroom, ZMF Verite Closed | Output impedance | Noise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FiiO KA11 | $29 | 3.3 dB | 12.4 dB | 0.7 Ω | 1.7 µV |
| FiiO BTR13 | $59 | 0.2 dB | 9.0 dB | 0.6 Ω | 1.0 µV |
| iBasso DC03 Pro | $69 | 0.2 dB | 9.2 dB | 0.12 Ω | 0.9 µV |
Of the 280 sources here, 231 reach 100 dB on both. That is the easy axis. 66 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 rest either fail one of those or never printed the number at all, and 163 of them are in the second group.
The cheapest of the 66 is the FiiO KA11, at $29. It leaves 3.3 dB of headroom on the HiFiMAN Susvara and 12.4 dB on the ZMF Verite Closed, its output impedance is 0.7 Ω against a one-eighth limit of 7.50 Ω and 37.50 Ω, and its noise figure puts the hiss floor 40 dB and 31 dB below the 20 dB SPL this site treats as the point where a quiet room stops hiding it.
Cheapest that satisfies three published numbers is not the same as best, and none of it is about how either headphone sounds. To put either model against a source this page does not mention, or to change the target loudness, use the amplifier matcher.
| Model | As printed | Tolerance | Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| HiFiMAN Susvara | 6Hz-75kHz | not printed | not printed |
| ZMF Verite Closed | nothing printed | — | — |
HiFiMAN prints 6Hz-75kHz for the Susvara. ZMF prints nothing at all for the Verite Closed.
So one side of this comparison has a frequency-response number and the other does not — which changes less than it looks. The range printed for the HiFiMAN Susvara comes with no tolerance beside it, and a range without a ±dB figure says nothing about how loud the headphone is at either end of it: thirty decibels down at the bottom and the sentence would still be true. On the only reading that would have made it a specification, the two sheets say the same amount: nothing.
None of this is a measurement. What each maker publishes, and what it is worth, is set out in the frequency response audit.
Each model has a page of its own with the full source list, the hiss estimate and the provenance of every figure above: HiFiMAN Susvara and ZMF Verite Closed. Each figure on this page is labelled on those pages with where it came from, including the ones HiFiMAN and ZMF never published — what HiFiMAN publishes and what ZMF publishes, both counted.