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To listen balanced, I fed Brooklyn Bridge's line output to the Mytek Liberty THX AAA HPA headphone amplifier, using the Liberty's balanced XLR jack to connect the LCD-5. The product Audeze's LCD-5 headphone arrived nestled neatly in a black aluminum travel case, similar in its dimensions to my oboe case with a similar suitcase-style handle and molded foam inserts to secure the 'phone in place. The ear cups on Audeze's higher-end models are attached semipermanently because Audeze is unwilling to compromise sound quality.5 Besides, Audeze argues, Audeze headphone users change ear- pads only every three to seven years. Herb Reichert told this story in Gramophone Dreams #56, including his assessment of the civilian version of the resulting headphone, the Audeze CRBN.2 I heard it at CanJam,3 powered by one of the same headphone amplifiers I used in this review, the Linear Tube Audio (LTA) Z10e. INSET: ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. [Extracted from the article] |
