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Product Description
When Audeze started designing the LCD-3 professional reference headphone, the goal was very clear: it must be the absolute best. Through uncompromised standards the LCD-3 provides the highest level of audio quality, unsurpassed bass extension, exceptional treble and the best mid-range you will find in headphones. The all new LOTUS diaphragm uses a special alloy for conductive traces giving us greater control and lower distortion (translation: audio that sounds like the original studio recording).
The LCD-3 has astonishingly dynamic enveloping sound with powerful bass, an attractive, inviting midrange and open extended highs. Audeze's research and development team took the popular LCD-2 headphones and created the Audeze LCD-3 with a thinner planar magnetic diaphragm controlled by an even more efficient magnetic structure.
The earcups of the LCD-3 are made from precision-crafted, hand-selected Zebrano wood with sloped ear pads of either premium lambskin leather or a leather-free microsuede. The ear pads are designed with specially-crafted foam offering the best firmness and acoustic balance.
In the Box:
- 2.5m (8.2ft) 6.35mm (1/4in) to dual 4-pin mini-XLR cable
- 2.5m (8.2ft) 4-pin XLR to dual 4-pin mini-XLR cable
- 6.35mm (1/4in) to 3.5mm (1/8in) stereo adapter
- Ruggedized travel case or wooden show case
- Warranty documents
Specifications:
- Style: Open circumaural
- Transducer type: Planar magnetic
- Magnetic structure: Proprietary self-closing design
- Magnet type: High-grade Neodymium
- Diaphragm area: 39.8sq cm (6.17sq in)
- Sound pressure level (SPL): > 130db with 15W
- Frequency response: 5Hz - 20kHz extension to 50kHz
- Total harmonic distortion (THD): > 1%
- Impedance: 110 ohms
- Efficiency: 93dB / 1mW
- Maximum power handling: 15W (for 200 ms)
- Optimal power requirement: 1-4W
- Cable length (both): 2.5 m or 8.2 ft
- Weight: 600g
Word on the Street:
“I have never heard a set of headphones that got even remotely close to the sound of live music the way this one does and ...if you want the very best, get the LCD-3s.”
Steve Guttenberg - CNET
“The LCD-3's natural timbre, especially throughout the midrange, was a thing of beauty and one that is hard to go without once experienced.”
Andrew Robinson - hometheaterreview.com