Lehmann Linear SE Headphone Amplifier
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The Linear SE in its topical mk II version satisfies every wish of even the most demanding music lovers. With its exquisite components, elegant housing variations and its thoroughly revised analogue board in Low-Z Copper it sets new standards for your music experience. Allow yourself to be convinced of its outstanding sound quality and impressive design – because great sound never looked better! Imagine closing your eyes and getting carried away by the sound of your musical treasures: the individual timbres will blend into a fascinating artistic synthesis, causing the music to sound precisely as it was recorded. Our representative headphone amplifier can bring you this unique adventure. It lets you experience the music with all your senses time and again. Everybody will envy you this gem.
For our production we use top-grade components without exception, which we buy from selected manufacturers. Thus our Linear SE mk II is equipped off the shelf with capacitors from Mundorf in the power supply and also in the signal path, an ahp fuse and Mogami cables. Vibration-absorbing SSC feet are another standard feature of the Linear SE mk II.
This reference class headphone amplifier also copes with the highest of aesthetic demands. The housing developed by product designer Guido Gutenstein will impress you with its simple elegance and a noble silk flat aluminium finish. Match different housing and faceplate versions with freely selectable LED colours and black or silver 3S Device Feet, as you desire. That way the Linear SE mk II will become your very personal gem to assort well with your taste and/or existing devices.
Some thousand music lovers in the world are already sold on our Linear headphone amplifier. Even with extremely demanding industrial customers – from the WDR to Sennheiser and Zimmerli – it has become firmly established. HiFi and studio magazine editors use our sound master as reference device. Now the Linear SE mk II is writing a new chapter of this success story.
Features
- Analogue board in Low-Z Copper
- Ultra reference class headphone amplifier for all dynamic headphones
- Maximum gain adjustable up to 20 dB
- Discrete class A output stage for an open, natural sound
- Two headphone outputs with gold-plated Neutrik sockets
- Can easily drive long cables as a single source preamp
- Oversized internal power supply
- Mundorf capacitors in the power supply and the signal path
- Vibration-damping 3S Device Feet
- Elegant housing variations
- Attractive combinations of front panels, potentiometer knobs and LED colours
- Digital options: USB-DAC and TOSLINK
- Made in Germany
Specifications
| Input impedance | 47 kohms |
| Maximum gain | 0 dB, 10 dB, 18 dB, 20 dB selectable via DIP switches |
| Frequency response | 10 Hz (-0.3 dB) to 35 kHz (-1 dB) |
| Signal to noise ratio | > 100 dB at gain 0 dB |
| THD | < 0.001 % at 6 mW/300 Ohms |
| Channel separation | > 70 dB at 10 kHz |
| Output power | 400 mW/60 Ohms 200 mW/300 Ohms |
| Output impedance | pre-out 60 Ohms phones out 5 Ohms |
| Connectors audio | Neutrik headphone jacks with gold plated contacts 1 x pre-out 2 x phones out gold plated RCA sockets with teflon insulation |
| Power consumption | 10 W |
| Outer dimensions W x D x H | 120 mm x 296 mm x 59 mm |
| Weight | 2.2 kg netto |
| Digital options | |
| USB-DAC 384/32 | Prioritization: I: USB input II: line input analogue |
| TOSLINK/SPDIF DAC 192/24 | Prioritization: I: TOSLINK input II: RCA input digital III: line input analogue |
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Lehmannaudio Vertriebs GmbH was originally founded in 1988 by Norbert Lehmann, a young audio engineering student, in Cologne, Germany. Through those early days, Norbert developed a deep understanding of how the quality of certain electrical devices affected the end sound-performance of an amplifier. The cumulative result of this formative period was manifest in 1995, when Lehmannaudio released the Black Cube phono stage.
The Black Cube is now a cult object in the audiophile market. Still available today in almost the same form as the original model, the Black Cube took components more commonly found in studio mixing desks and brought them to a hi-fi product. The result was an affordable phono stage that sounded truly sublime. In 2004, the next icon was born; the Linear Headphone Amplifier (originally called Black Cube Linear) again took studio principles and brought them to the hi-fi sector, allowing hi-fi fans to experience the true engineering ability of Norbert Lehmann.
Since 2004 the phono stage and headphone amplifier sectors have been happy homes for Lehmannaudio products, and now the company can boast a range of products in each sector that are suitable for all budgets and technical requirements.