Audeze LCD-2 Padauk

Audeze LCD-2 Padauk Headphones: A Warm and Immersive Sound Signature

The Audeze LCD-2 Padauk perfectly embodies the brand’s characteristic sound signature. It offers a warm and enveloping listening experience, with defined and powerful bass, clear and precise mids, and slightly recessed highs. This sound combination creates an immersive and comfortable atmosphere, ideal for long listening sessions.

The reproduction of low frequencies is particularly remarkable, providing exceptional depth and texture without overshadowing other ranges. The mids are highlighted with great clarity, allowing each instrument and voice to be distinguished with precision. The highs, although slightly recessed, retain enough detail to offer a balanced and natural sound image.

Open Design for an Extended Soundstage

The LCD-2 Padauk stands out with its open-back design, which greatly contributes to its acoustic performance. This architecture allows optimal air circulation around the drivers, reducing unwanted resonances and promoting a more natural and airy sound reproduction.

The open design also offers a wider and deeper soundstage, creating an impressive sense of space and dimensionality. Listeners can enjoy an immersive listening experience, where each sound element seems to occupy its own place in space, enhancing the realism and precision of the reproduction.

Advanced Planar Magnetic Drivers

At the heart of the LCD-2 Padauk are Audeze’s renowned planar magnetic drivers. This cutting-edge technology uses an ultra-thin diaphragm and powerful magnets to produce sound with great precision and low distortion. Planar magnetic drivers are known for their fast response and ability to reproduce the finest sound details with high fidelity.

This technology allows the LCD-2 Padauk to deliver an extended frequency response, covering the entire audible spectrum with great linearity. Transients are reproduced with remarkable clarity, offering impressive dynamics and precise rendering of sound attacks and decays.

Optimal Listening Comfort for Long Sessions

Audeze has paid particular attention to the comfort of the LCD-2 Padauk. The ear pads, generously padded and covered with a soft material, perfectly conform to the shape of the head, ensuring optimal acoustic isolation while reducing fatigue during long listening sessions.

The headband, adjustable and padded, evenly distributes the weight of the headphones across the top of the skull, avoiding unpleasant pressure points. Despite its imposing size, the LCD-2 Padauk remains relatively lightweight for headphones in this category, contributing to its overall comfort.

Remarkable Musical Versatility

The LCD-2 Padauk shines with its ability to adapt to a wide variety of musical genres. Its warm and balanced sound signature is particularly well-suited to acoustic music, jazz, and classical, highlighting the richness of timbres and the complexity of arrangements.

However, it also excels in reproducing electronic music, hip-hop, and rock. The deep, well-defined bass adds punch and impact to the rhythms, while the clarity of the midrange allows each element of the composition to be distinguished with precision.

Technical specifications

Key features

• Fazor waveguide technology for reduced distortion and precise imaging
• Tuned for a warm tonality with deep, punchy bass
• Hand-finished padauk wood rings
• Vented suspension headband and pads optimized for comfort

Design

• Open-back, circumaural style
• 106 mm planar magnetic transducer
• Ultra-thin diaphragm
• Leather earpads

Magnetic technology

• Proprietary magnet array
• N50 neodymium magnets
• Fazor phase management

Audio performance

• Frequency response: 10 Hz – 50 kHz
• Impedance: 70 Ω
• Sensitivity: 101 dB / 1 mW
• Total harmonic distortion: < 0.1% at 100 dB
• Maximum sound pressure level: > 130 dB

Power and weight

• Weight: 595 g
• Maximum power: 5 W RMS
• Minimum power: > 100 mW
• Recommended power: > 250 mW

Box contents

• LCD-2 headphones
• Standard LCD carrying case
• 4-pin XLR cable
• 4-pin XLR to 6.35 mm jack adapter cable
• 6.35 mm to 3.5 mm jack adapter
• Warranty card, certificate of authenticity