Warwick Acoustics Aperio: how much amplifier do you need?

The Warwick Acoustics Aperio is an electrostatic headphone. It does not connect to a normal headphone output at all — it needs a dedicated energiser that supplies a high bias voltage, so every power figure on the rest of this site is irrelevant to it. No dongle, amplifier or player will drive it, whatever its wattage.

That is the whole answer, and it is worth stating plainly because "how many milliwatts do I need" is the wrong question here. What you need is a matching energiser from the same ecosystem.

The two numbers that decide everything

Impedance200 Ω
Sensitivity96.0 dB/mW
TypeElectrostatic
BrandWarwick Acoustics
Moderate — a decent dongle is plenty

Electrostatic specifications are quoted differently and are not comparable to dynamic or planar headphones. They are listed here only so the database is complete.

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