Description
The LCD-3 is a high-resolution headphone that always sounds musical, spacious, with powerful bass, an engaging midrange, and an extended top end. Its rich, vibrant sound has real scale and authority. It features a deep soundstage and reveals music in a very ambient way with exciting transparency and detail. The LCD-3’s natural timbre, especially through the midrange, has been called a thing of beauty. You’ll find yourself emotionally connected to the artist and music. Pair it with a high-quality headphone or integrated amplifier for best results. Its impedance is 110 ohms.
About Audeze
Audeze started in 2008 in a garage (of course!) when its founders came across a revolutionary flexible circuit material developed for NASA. Realizing this could be a great advance in planar magnetic technology, they first started to make pro audio PA speakers, but dropped this project and started making headphones – the LCD-1.
Taking this first headphone to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, it was a tremendous hit, and that success launched the company. Hanging on that garage wall was the 2001 Space Odyssey poster, and that inspired the company’s name. The founders wanted a name that had something to do with a “journey through audio,” so Odyssey would be perfect, and that’s how the name Audeze (pronounced “odyssey”) was born.
Audeze’s Planar Magnetic Technology
Acoustically engineered for accuracy
Audeze’s innovative planar magnetic technology delivers clear and accurate sound that reveals everything on the recording.
Diaphragms thinner than a human hair
We use space-age materials in an ultra thin diaphragm four times larger than typical headphones for fast response times, dramatically reduced distortion, higher resolution and improved imaging.
Near zero distortion
Double-sided magnet arrays delivers a uniform driving force across the entire diaphragm for near zero distortion.
Internal waveguide
Patented Fazor Elements guide internal headphone soundwaves to avoid resonances for a more accurate waveform.
It’s luxuriously spacious, with powerful bass, a rich and engaging midrange, and a top-end that draws you into the music.
It’s imbued with sophisticated looks and beautiful hand-made rings. The quality of the entire structure provides years of trouble-free listening. Industrial Design by Audeze
We closely match our planar transducers, and match our beautiful factory-made wood rings by grain and color. Engineered and Handcrafted in Audeze’s California Factory
Lightweight
Marty –
I’m no headphone expert, but these sound great with my Schiit Ragnarok amp and Schiit Gungnir DAC.
They bring new life to music that I thought I knew.
Some people find them heavy but I enjoy listening to them for hours on end with no fatigue.
Bernardo –
The headphones has an extraordinary sound, the broadness of the effect and the details of the aural experience are wonderful. The size of the set is large and they are a little on the heavy side, so they can be tiresome after long use. They prize is pretty hefty and I am not sure whether they too pricey, there may be other similar choices in the marker with equal quality.