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Linear
The iconic Lehmann Audio headphone amplifier, perfect for enjoying your music in your own world.

A high quality headphone amplifier is as important for listening to music with a pair of headphones as are stable power amplifiers for the loud-speakers of your stereo setup. Dynamic headphones are far more different than most people realise. For the same sound pressure level the power needed with different headphone models can vary up to a factor of about 500! Impedances can be different to a factor of more than 20!

This is the reason why different headphone models have very individual requirements to the headphone amplifier driving them in terms of voltage and current. Everybody who once has connected a high-quality headphone to any given standard headphone output knows about this problem.

With the launch of the Linear there is now a high-end headphone amplifier to realise even the highest demands to reference quality headphone music reproduction.

The selectable gain (0dB, 10dB, 20dB) of the Linear effectively optimises the output level of the zero global feedback Class A output stage. Practically all high-quality dynamic headphones available will show their best possible performance, no matter if you have an easy to drive low impedance pair of headphones or an ineffective pair of 600 Ohms studio cans.

Carefully selected top notch components and a highly sophisticated circuit design guarantee top notch listening pleasure. Now you can hear that ultra-transparent sound and the explosive dynamics formerly known only from electrostatic headphones. An over dimensioned power supply with a huge magnetically and statically shielded toroidal transformer is included internally allowing a power cable of your choice to be directly connected to the unit.

For stereo setups with just one source like a CD player or a turntable with a phono stage the Linear is the simplest and most effective active preamp one can think of. All audio connectors including the two Neutrik phone jacks come with gold plated contacts. No external Y-adapter is needed!

The faceplate and the massive milled aluminium knob for the smooth running 27 mm ALPS high grade volume control are available in anodised black or silver. If you would like to enquire about the availability of Chrome finish, please Contact Us.

This product is no longer available to order and will not be coming back into stock.

In Stock products are those that are currently held in stock at our Oxfordshire warehouse. This stock status is updated regularly but is subject to change at very short notice.

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Special Order items are those that are most often built to order. For these items, we tend to experience longer lead times as we negotiate them into the production line with our suppliers.

Linear

RRP: £865.00

The iconic Lehmann Audio headphone amplifier, perfect for enjoying your music in your own world.

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Keith Howard , Hi-Fi News , October 2009

Lehmann BC Linear Review

"It measures well and delivers unusually clear insight into the ‘how?’ and ‘why?’ aspects of music making, not just the ‘what?’."

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What Hi-Fi? , July 2009

Lehmann Black Cube Linear Review

"As far as sonic performance is concerned, it's the best we've come across."

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format_quoteHenley Says...

Even the biggest Lehmann headphone amp has a very small footprint, and the more compact ones are just impressively tiny, given the high-quality sound that they can create. These bits of kit really raise the bar in sound performance and reliability, sitting at home as part of bigger systems or as desktop units where they 'just work'. No muss, no fuss - immerse yourself in a bubble of your music at the push of a button.

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Matt Powell Area Sales Manager

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