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The BRAVURA, Italian for “great technical skill and brilliance in a performance,” is the latest electrostatic headphone from Warwick Acoustics and follows the multi-award-winning SONOMA M1 and APERIO premium headphone systems.
It is designed to reproduce audio content as clearly and accurately as possible, revealing the details and complexity of an original recording without coloration or distortion.
Simply put, it offers a remarkable listening experience you could never have imagined. The BRAVURA is designed for use with the award-winning Sonoma M1 amplifier, featuring analog RCA inputs and digital USB and coaxial S/PDIF inputs.
Handcrafted top-grain Cabretta leather ear cushions. Injected magnesium ear cups for an excellent strength-to-weight ratio, superior acoustic attenuation, and RFI/EMI shielding. Specially developed low-capacitance cable in collaboration with ATLAS and LEMO.
Reviews
Golden Sound
Convince Me Audio
The Absolute Sound
Lite Magazine
Musicalhead
Listening test WARWICK ACOUSTICS BRAVURA - Musicalhead
Moon Audio
Warwick Acoustics BRAVURA Headphone Review
The EAR
5 STARS for the BRAVURA From The EAR | Reviews | Warwick Acoustics
Headphone Guru
Warwick Acoustics BRAVURA Electrostatic Headphone Review
Designed to inspire
Warwick Acoustics, the award-winning manufacturer of high-quality electrostatic headphone systems, has developed the BRAVURA for those who seek perfection.
The BRAVURA is unlike any other headphone on the market. It reproduces audio content as clearly and precisely as possible, revealing the details and subtleties of an original recording without coloration or distortion.
Simply put, it breathes new life into your favorite music. Choose your favorite album, put on the lightweight and comfortable headphones, close your eyes, and within a few moments, you'll feel like you're sitting just a few feet away from your favorite artist.
It offers a truly remarkable listening experience you never could have imagined.
Developed for connoisseurs
Every subtlety. Every nuance. Every note. Every breath. Audiophiles say the BRAVURA system brings them closer than ever to the music they love.
A complete sound system
The Sonoma M1 system is an integrated headphone system with DAC, amplifier, energizer and open headphone and has been optimized from the ground up to deliver uncompromising, amazing HiRes audio performance in a truly exclusive package.
Sonoma M1 Amplifier
A powerful, single-ended, discrete Class A FET amplifier with low distortion and wide bandwidth, optimally matched to the converters.
Technologically advanced
With its new stator design, BRAVURA takes our award-winning converter technology to a new level.
HPEL converter
Enjoy extremely low distortion, wider bandwidth and higher sound pressure levels.
Custom low-capacity cable
Easily adjustable headband with hand-stitched finish.
Headphone comfort
The specially developed cable with extremely low capacitance guarantees optimal signal transmission between amplifier and headphones.
Single-ended Class A amplifier
Designed to drive the inherent capacitive load of an electrostatic transducer and operate with a high bias level to improve linearity.
Ess Sabre Reference DAC
The gold standard in audio digital-to-analog converter technology.
Custom 64-bit fixed-point digital signal processing
All signals are processed digitally using a special 64-bit double-precision floating-point arithmetic running on a multi-core XMOS processor.
Precision-machined aluminum housing
The amplifier enclosure is designed for aesthetics, robustness and audio performance.
Technical details
headphones
- Configuration: Open headphones; circumaural type
- Transducer: HPEL, single-ended electrostatic
- Effective membrane area: 3570 mm2
- Moving mass (for dynamic range): < 0.2 g
- Converter capacitance: 105 pF
- Impedance of the converter: > 5 GΩ
- THD: 0.1% at 1kHz/100dB SPL
- Frequency response: 10 Hz – 60 kHz
- Bias voltage: 1350 Vdc
- Cable: Ultra-low capacitance, high-precision cable, 2 m length
- Weight (without cable): 403 g (14.2 oz)
Energizer & DAC
- USB input: USB 2.0, Type B; accepts digital audio formats up to 32-bit/384 kHz PCM and DSD over DoP (DSD64/DSD128)
- Digital coaxial input: S/PDIF; accepts digital audio formats up to 24-bit/192 kHz PCM
- Analogue input (high level): dual RCA; 2.1 Vrms
- Analog input (low level): 3.5 mm; 850mVrms
- DAC: Dual mono, 32-bit/384 kHz DACs with balanced outputs
- ADC: 32-bit/384 kHz multi-channel ADC with balanced input buffers
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP): 64-bit (double precision) fixed-point processing at native sampling rates
- Amplifier/Energizer: Discrete FET, single-ended, high-bias Class A output
- Distortion + Noise: < 0.05%
- Bandwidth: > 65 kHz
- Housing: CNC-machined 6063 aluminum
- Power supply: External: 24 VDC, 60 VA, fixed frequency, Class B compliant SMPS; Internal: fully isolated, ultra-low noise linear control
- AC power supply: Worldwide voltage compatible (90–264 V, 50–60 Hz); IEC-60320 C14, grounded power cord; 1.5 meters long
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 57 mm (2.24 inches) x 190 mm (7.48 inches) x 290 mm (11.42 inches)
- Weight: 2.45 kg (5.40 lbs)
