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    Audeze LCD-5 Planar Magnetic Headphone

    Audeze's Latest Flagship, 1/3 Less Weight!

    Transparency, Resolution and speed @ only 420g

    For the past decade, Audeze’s LCD series has set the standard for planar magnetic headphone performance. Starting with the LCD-2 that ushered in a new era of planar technology in 2009, we then introduced the LCD-3 in 2011 and LCD-4 in 2015. With the LCD-5, everything has been improved – drivers, earpads, frame design - to set a new standard for performance and comfort.

    • New planar driver and magnet structure extends frequency response
    • 1/3 less weight than the LCD-4!
    • New sculpted earpad design improves upper midrange response
    • Improved structural design incorporating magnesium, acetate and carbon-fiber

    Transparency, Resolution, and Speed

    The LCD-5 sets a new standard for accuracy. Its drivers are engineered with our award-winning Fluxor magnets and updated Fazor waveguides along with our new Patent-pending Parallel Uniforce™ voice coils, which employ varying width parallel traces to keep the impedance low and provide increased voltage headroom by altering the current density within each trace. The uniform force created by this optimization lowers distortion and provides better control over diaphragm movement, resulting in improved sonic resolution.

    Clarity and Imaging

    We’ve optimized every aspect of the LCD-5’s acoustic chamber to achieve pinpoint imaging and an extremely clean and clear soundstage. The new sculpted earpads and acoustically transparent mesh are designed to minimize reflections and resonance, while the Parallel Uniforce™ voice coil allows increased space between magnets for improved frequency response and a more open soundstage. LCD-5 also features newly designed low-profile Fazor waveguides to further reduce diffractions and interactions with the ear.

    Elegant Comfortable Design

    Weighing in at only 420 grams, the LCD-5 offers hours of listening pleasure. Every part has been re-engineered, using materials such as magnesium, aluminum and acetate which offer light weight and high rigidity. When you put on a pair of LCD-5s, your head and ears are cradled in materials of the finest quality. Supple premium leather and carbon-fiber pull all the elements together into a package of the finest craftsmanship, which we hand-assemble in our California workshop.

    Sculpted Earpads

    Our new sculpted, internally sloped earpad architecture reduces unwanted resonances and interior reflections. The ergonomic design cradles your cranium, and helps naturally place the headphone in the optimal listening position. The pads have less contact surface area than standard designs to reduce fatigue while providing a superior seal for all shapes and sizes.

    Ultra High Purity Cable

    The LCD-5 cable is specially tuned with directional OCC high-purity copper strands that provide a low capacitance and low resistance path for the signal to travel from your amp to the drivers, maintaining unsurpassed clarity and precision.

    Specifications

    Style

    Over-ear, open-back

    Transducer type

    Planar Magnetic

    Magnetic structure

    Fluxor™ magnet array

    Phase management

    Fazor™

    Magnet type

    Neodymium N50

    Diaphragm type

    Nano-Scale Parallel Uniforce™

    Transducer size

    90 mm

    Maximum SPL

    >130dB

    Frequency response

    5Hz - 50kHz

    THD

    <0.1% @ 100 dB SPL

    Sensitivity

    90 dB/1mW (at Drum Reference Point)

    Impedance

    14 ohms

    Max power handling

    5W RMS

    Min recommended power

    > 100mW

    Recommended power level

    >500mW

    Blazingly low weight

    420g