ArturiaMiniFuse 1
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New retail price (MSRP)
$99
Used market: $60*
Specifications
6 of 14 values have a recorded source- Type
- Audio Interface·
- Equivalent input noise
- -129✓
- Bus powered
- yes·
- Maximum gain
- 56✓
- Analog inputs
- 1x XLR/TRS combo (Mic/Line/Inst)·
- Analog outputs
- 2x 1/4" TRS Balanced Line Out · 1/4" TRS Headphones·
- Digital inputs
- USB-C · MIDI·
- USB power draw
- 2.5·
- Headphone output
- 2.13 Vrms, 10 Ω·
- Maximum input level
- 9✓
- Maximum sample rate
- 192·
- Phantom power provided
- yes·
- Release year
- 2021·
- Indexable Locales
- en·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Gain staging
56 dB of gain and a claimed -129 dB EIN. The EIN carries no reference unit — Arturia writes dB where everyone else writes dBu — so read the number as approximate when comparing it with a Focusrite or an RME.
Amplification Warning
The headphone figures are unusually self-consistent for this price class: 137 mW into 33 ohms works out to 2.13 V, and the unloaded +11.4 dBu (2.88 V) sits exactly where a 10 ohm source impedance would put it.
What the datasheet actually says
Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.
«Microphone Preamps — Input impedance: 2.5kΩ / Maximum input level: +9dBu / Gain range: 56dB / Equivalent Input Noise [EIN]: -129dB typical [A-weighted]»
Arturia publishes one specification table for the whole MiniFuse range, and the MiniFuse 1 and MiniFuse 4 pages carry it byte for byte: same 56 dB gain, same -129 dB EIN, same +9 dBu maximum input, same headphone figures (+11.4 dBu, 10 ohm, 137 mW into 33 ohm). The MiniFuse 1 is bus-powered with one preamp and one headphone jack; the MiniFuse 4 has an external supply, four preamps and two headphone jacks. One headphone amplifier figure cannot describe both a single output and a pair driven together, so at least one of the two pages is describing hardware it does not have.
checked 8/5/2026Setups using this gear
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~61% retained value).