AH-D2000 vs AH-D7200: which needs more amplifier?

The Denon AH-D2000 is 25Ω at 106.0 dB/mW; the Denon AH-D7200 is 25Ω at 105.0 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 AH-D7200 needs 1.0 dB more than the AH-D2000 to reach the same loudness — 0.32 mW against 0.25 mW.

The numbers that decide it

SpecificationAH-D2000AH-D7200
Impedance25 Ω25 Ω
Sensitivity106.0 dB/mW105.0 dB/mW
Sensitivity (voltage)122.0 dB/V121.0 dB/V
Power for 100 dB0.25 mW0.32 mW
Voltage for 100 dB79 mV89 mV
Current for 100 dB3.2 mA3.6 mA
Highest source impedance
that leaves them alone (one-eighth rule)
3.12 Ω3.12 Ω
Sources that reach 100 dB
out of 280
280280

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.

2 sources stay below the audible-hiss threshold with the AH-D7200 but cross it with the AH-D2000 (FiiO BTR11, Rupert Neve RNHP).

280 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.

Both pages in full

Each model has a page of its own with the full source list, the hiss estimate and the provenance of every figure above: Denon AH-D2000 and Denon AH-D7200. Every figure on this page comes from what Denon published, or is derived from it — what that maker publishes, counted.