Performance Meets Practicality
It’s rare to find the pleasures of comfort, convenience, and quality sound in one product. Typically, headphones sacrifice at least one for the sake of the others. The LCD-1 manages all three. Featuring Audeze’s powerful, lightweight Fazor magnets in an open-back, light-weight design, the LCD-1 delivers audiophile sound in an ultra-portable package.
Hand-Crafted Comfort
Fully assembled in Audeze’s Orange County factory, the LCD-1 bears the fruit of hand-crafted attention in every stitch. Its deep memory foam earpads are wrapped in genuine lambskin leather for all-day comfort. The headband, while not too tight, provides enough clamping force to keep the headphones snugly on your head. And because these are open-back headphones, they dissipate enough heat to keep your ears from getting toasty.
Fazor Phase Management
While planar magnetic headphones offer a lot of advantages over dynamic drivers, they also present their own problems. Diffraction of sound off the magnets can cause different frequencies to arrive at different times, resulting in changes of phase. And when sound waves created by multiple magnets collide, wave interference occurs (that’s a bad thing ).
Audeze has attempted to solve these problems with a proprietary technology called Fazor Phase Management . Fazors are triangular elements that cap each magnet. They act as guides for the sound, maneuvering waves from the drivers and preventing them from interfering with each other. The result is cleaner sound, greater resolution, and better imaging.
Fluxor Magnet Array
The Fluxor Magnetic Array is Audeze’s proprietary magnetic structure. It’s both lighter and more powerful than the traditional magnet array found in other planar magnetic headphones, resulting in an overall lighter build and increased control over the diaphragm. It’s capable of rendering frequencies from 10 - 50,000Hz with pinpoint accuracy.
Product highlights
Enhanced transparency and sound stage - Open Circumaural Design
Wide dynamic range - 90mm Over-Ear Planar Drivers
Unparalleled sonic detail and accuracy - Ultra-thin Uniforce™ Diaphragms
Powerful sound and efficiency - Fluxor™ Magnets
Deep rich bass with low audible distortion - Fazor Waveguides
Light-weight construction with robust memory foam ear pads and headband for extended comfort during long listening sessions
Foldable headphone design-perfect for mixing/listening on the go
Style: Over-ear, open-circumaural
Transducer type: Planar Magnetic
Magnetic structure: Single-sided Fluxor™ magnet array
Phase management: Fazor
Magnet type: Neodymium N50
Diaphragm type: Ultra-thin Uniforce™
Transducer size: 90mm
Maximum power handling: 5W RMS
Maximum SPL: >120dB
Frequency response: 10 - 50,000Hz
THD: <0.1% @ 100dB
Impedance: 16Ω
Sensitivity: 99 dB/1mW (at Drum Reference Point)
Ear Pads: Memory foam, genuine lambskin leather
Weight: 8.8oz (250g)
What’s included
2m 3.5mm to dual 3.5mm cable with reversible connectors
3.5mm to 6.35mm adapter
Zippered travel case
Certificate of Authenticity