Abstract: It's a dilemma. You want to buy an open-back headphone so you can feel that sweet spaciousness. But your significant other will kill herself if she has to hear Hotel California one more time. Just how different do these two great LCD-2's sound? Let's find...
Abstract: It's a dilemma. You want to buy an open-back headphone so you can feel that sweet spaciousness. But your significant other will kill herself if she has to hear Hotel California one more time. Just how different do these two great LCD-2's sound? Let's find...
The LCD2 Classic is a well, if unusually, balanced effort by Audeze to bring the perfomance of their LCD product line to a sub-$1000 price point. Build quality and materials are top notch at this price. The new crystal-infused nylon rings appear to be bru...
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Published: 2016-11-29, Author: Herb , review by: stereophile.com
Abstract: With headphones, I'm pretty much forced to listen —and that's a powerful thing. I never paid attention to lyrics: I thought lyrics were for girls. Now, with headphones, almost all I hear are the lyrics. I'm embarrassed that it's taken me this long to over...
Abstract: With a current lack of headphones pressing for attention and review space, I turned to an older model that we haven't reviewed yet - the Audeze LCD-2. At a price of $995, and given it's manufacturer, we know this isn't going to be a lightweight. But whe...
Audeze’s Revision 2 planar magnetic drivers take an already superb top-tier headphone and make it—in subtle yet significant ways—even better. Audeze has been installing Revision 2 drivers in all LCD-2 headphones built since mid-June 2011,[1] and will ...
Abstract: I first heard Audeze LCD-2 planar magnetic headphones ($945 – $995, depending on options chosen) about a year ago at a Can-Jam event organized by our friends at www.head-fi.org. When I visited the Audeze demonstration table, I must say that I experi...
Over the past several months I’ve heard a number of excellent headphones, the sound of each of which has represented a different take on what a pair of headphones is supposed to sound like. The Audeze LCD-2s are yet another take -- in both the sonic ...
Breathtaking sound, close to being there and listening; Practically perfect in audio quality and beautifully clear; So balanced; Well made; Very, very comfortable;
Really needs an amp to drive them; They look very strange; The LCD2 headphones are massive, and the sheer size may put some people off; Proprietary cable; Very, very, very expensive;
I don't have $1299 to spend on a pair of headphones, and if I did, I'm still not sure I'd buy headphones.But if you love music in its highest quality form, and you love listening to it but you either don't have the room for a pair of massive Bowes & Wilki...
Abstract: During a phone interview with Evan Grimm, Audeze's Head of Product Training, he admitted that when they'd released their new “ Fazor ” headphone waveguide technology in 2013, they'd expected near universal praise for the sound. Such was not the case. Many...
