5/15/2017 0 Comments Lehmann Audio Decade ManualEquipment Review - Lehmann Audio Black Cube Linear Headphone Amplifier. February 2. 00. 5Lehmann Audio Black. Cube Linear Headphone Amplifierby Vade Forrester Review Summary. Sound . This allows you. I have a few theories. First, the immense popularity. Pods and similar portable music- playback devices has changed the way many people. But the cheapie earbuds included with these players are usually not the. Also, the neighbors of apartment- dwelling audiophiles do not welcome. Headphones can also produce quite decent sound at. Pod). Finally. headphones don’t take up much room, and you can store them out of sight when. With all of this in mind, I eagerly accepted the. Lehmann Audio Black Cube Linear headphone amplifier, the latest. Lehmann Audio Decade Manual Lymphatic DrainageLehmann Decade Phono Preamp. Lehmann Audio Rhinelander Headphone Amp. Color: Lehmann Black Cube Statement. Lehmann Decade Phono Preamp Mm-mc **ind 2015 Stereophile Recommended phono stage. Stand, Audio Rack for sale (7) Room Accoustics Equipment (0). A milestone among the phono preamps: The Lehmannaudio phono stage Decade forges a link between the Black Cube series and the top-of-the-line model Silver Cube. Find great deals on eBay for Audiophile Preamp in Home. Audiophile Preamp//Original Package/Manual. FEATURES LEHMANN AUDIO DECADE TECHNICAL. Lehmann Audio Decade Manual TransferGerman company best known for its line of affordable, high- performance. Would I discover a few new supporting reasons for the popularity of. Description. The $7. USD Black Cube Linear is a small. These dimensions illustrate perhaps. Lehmann Audio named it the Black Cube Linear. The unit’s small. Norbert Lehmann Director. Phono stages Group Test: Article Index;. LEHMANN AUDIO BLACK CUBE. Unlike many. other headphone amps, this one will seldom require a separate shelf. The Black Cube Linear's power supply is built in. IEC connector in the rear, so you can pick a power cord that sounds good to. Next to the IEC connector are the on/off switch and two pairs of gold- plated. Teflon- insulated RCA jacks: an input and an output pair. You can, therefore, feed the. Black Cube Linear and use the front- mounted volume control to adjust. Black Cube Linear. The volume control knob has a. I auditioned, it was hard to see the dimple. Maybe a little white paint (or even an. LED) in the dimple would make sense. The front panel holds two 1/4. Output. impedance is 5 ohms through the headphone jacks, and 6. RCA output jacks. Two switches on the bottom of the unit allow you. B. This allows you to make best use of the volume control. The gain setting also prevents blasting your. With. all the headphones I tried, the 2. B setting (maximum gain) worked best. The Black Cube. Linear was totally silent through all the headphones I used it with, and all the. Phones & stuff. A headphone amp has to drive a large variety of. I wanted to use 'phones that would accurately explore the capabilities of. Black Cube Linear. My old favorites, the Beyerdynamic DT 9. Sennheiser marque. They have a weighty. I would describe. T sound - - the way music would sound in the rear of a concert hall. They made a. good contrast to the DT 9. I was unfamiliar with these headphones, and was. A closed- back design, the HFI- 5. I came to appreciate during the review period. To complete things, I used a Blue Marble Audio. Black Cube Linear for most of the review period. A Purist Audio Design. Venustas power cord worked very well also, but it strikes me as goofy to use a power cord. The. source was a Meridian 5. CD player. For comparison I used a Head. Room Total Bit. Head. After the Lehmann amp had amassed lots of. I plugged in my Beyerdynamic DT 9. Black Cube Linear sounded from the. Highs were now more extended, mids were clear and smooth, and the bass. Ultrasones. The DT 9. I tried. Both the Lehmann and. Head. Room amps could produce good sound with them, although the Total Bit. Head couldn’t. drive them to very loud levels. The Ultrasone HFI- 5. Total Bit. Head worked very well with them. Sound. My first impression of the broken- in Black Cube. Linear was that its creamy- smooth sound was very easy to listen to and enjoy. By. this I don’t mean that the Black Cube Linear glossed over detail or rounded off. It produced sound that was in no way edgy or rough. It did not try. to simulate detail by accentuating the high frequencies. It sounded almost tube- like. Its lows were very. I was. using. My second impression of the Black Cube Linear's. It easily drove even the Beyerdynamic DT 9. I wanted to listen to, and dynamics just happened naturally. Crescendos showed no strain at all, and soft passages were. Microdynamics, the minute variations in loudness that musicians use to express. Harmonic accuracy was limited only by the. In a certain sense, I don’t know how good the Black Cube Linear. I used it. Headphones tend. Suffice it to say. Black Cube Linear brought out the best in both sets of headphones it drove. On the Eiji Oue and the Minnesota. Orchestra’s Bolero! The overall sound was smooth and relaxed. The complex. percussion parts were clear and free from the shrill distortion that I sometimes hear. Although the bass did not plumb the depths to the same degree as it did. DT 9. 90s, there was still substantial low- frequency energy. String tone was lush. I could tell when each section of stringed instruments (celli, violas. Highs (percussion and the triangle in this case) were fairly. The Black Cube Linear. Once again, the HFI- 5. DT 9. 90s, but the impact and detail of the drums in this piece were more detailed; I. The highs were more extended, too. On Jordi Savall and associates’ La Folia. Bass had great power and depth. Small dynamic and tempo changes in this. Through the HFI- 5. I have heard through any audio system. The guitar and harp parts were particularly. Exhilarating! I also briefly used the Black Cube Linear as a. Wright Sound Company WPA3. However, the Black Cube. Linear's sound was different from what I heard with headphones. Through amp and speakers. A. favorite song from Eva Cassidy’s Live at Blues Alley . Through the speakers, however, Cassidy’s voice. I speculate that the Black. Cube Linear might be a good match for a SET amp with rolled- off highs (no. I’m not saying that all SET amps have rolled- off highs, but some do). In my system. however, the Black Cube Linear never reached the sonic heights as a line- stage preamp that. Comparison. Doug Paratore wrote about the tiny $2. Head. Room. Total Bit. Head headphone amplifier on Sound. Stage! It’s a portable unit powered by either four AAA batteries or, if it’s. USB). The Total Bit. Head produced very deep bass and a. Black Cube Linear. This diminutive headphone amp surprised me with. Beyerdynamic DT 9. Of course, I inserted a set of fresh batteries before. I had the maximum amount of power available. It had even deeper bass than the Black Cube Linear. The opening drum roll on. Jennifer Warnes’ . Fortunately, the Ultrasone HFI- 5. Total. Bit. Head, and they even had a mini- plug at the end of their long, flexible cable, so I. Radio Shack adapter I had to use with the DT 9. With the. Head. Room amp, the HFI- 5. The HFI- 5. 50s were (again) more. When I finished auditioning the Total Bit. Head as. a standard headphone amp, I had to try it with a computer. Connecting the amp to. USB ports on my Dell 4. I played . This fed the signal, in digital form, into. Total Bit. Head, where its internal DAC decoded it and fed it to the internal amplifier. The overall sound was very musical and enjoyable, although some of the highs and. I could get a little more volume when I let. AAA batteries power the output amp, while the USB powered the Total Bit. Head’s. DAC. The Total Bit. Head turned out to be a great way to enhance the computing experience. Conclusion. The Lehmann Audio Black Cube Linear was a. It was never fussy - - it just went about its business of producing smooth. I plugged into it, even the. Beyerdynamic headphones I use. Moreover, it always extracted. Music though the Black Cube Linear was warm, relaxing. With comfortable headphones, the Black Cube Linear produced sound I. Given all of this, its $7. My time with the Black Cube Linear left me. I now understand what the headphone craze is about - - and how good headphones. I’m ready for more!. Vade Forrestervade@soundstage. Lehmann Audio Black Cube Linear Headphone. Amplifier. Price: $7. USD. Warranty: Two years parts and labor. Lehmann Audio. Dipl.- Ing. Norbert Lehmann. Mozartstr. Koeln Germany. Phone: +4. Fax: +4. 9 2. 20. E- mail: info@lehmannaudio. Website: www. lehmannaudio. US distributor: Hudson Audio Imports. Bergenline Ave. Closter, NJ 0. Phone: (2. 01)7. 68- 0. Fax: (2. 01)7. 68- 3. E- mail: huds. 14. Lehmann Audio : Phono Stages : Decade. At the High End show in Munich 2. Lehmann audio announced the release of a new phono stage, named Decade, to celebrate the first decade of Black Cube phono stages and to effectively fill the huge gap between the company. The Decade is the top model of the Black Cube series of phono stages. Key Features: Audio Section: The input stages used in the Decade can also be found in top notch mixing consoles or in well known professional microphone preamps. The passive filter network between two linear gain stages realized with precision MKP caps. Several resistive and capacitive load options as standard. Front switchable gain (3. B - 6. 6d. B) and soft bass rollof. Onboard slot for custom impedance. Zero global feedback Class A output stage technically identical with Black Cube Linear. High quality gold plated pcb mount RCA connectors for audio. High quality double sided printed circuit board for optimal signal routing. Neutrik connector with gold plated contacts for supply connection (as Silver Cube)Faceplate anodized aluminium in either black or silver finish. PWX II Power Supply: Power supply outlets for two audio devices. VA toroidal transformer of the PWX II power supply is a key component for the sonic performance achieved with the Black Cube Decade. This transformer is not only over dimensioned but sports a grounded isolation coil between the primary and secondary coil. Neutrik connectors with gold plated contacts for supply connection (as Silver Cube)Downward compatible with PWX. Black Cube SE audio sections can be connected. High quality double sided printed circuit board for optimal signal routing. Faceplate anodized aluminium in either black or silver finish. Technical Data: Input Stage: Dual- Mono Microphone Preamp Chip, Newest Generation. Sensitivity for Output Level 7. V/ 0 d. B: MM: 3. V/1 k. Hz. MC: 0. V/1 k. Hz. Max Input Level (1 k. Hz): MM: 4. 5 m. VMC: 4. V Gain Settings: 3. B, 4. 6d. B, 5. 6d. B, 6. 6d. BMax. Gain: 6. BSignal to Noise Ratio (RMS Unweighted): MM: 7. BMC: 6. 9 d. B Channel Separation: > 8. B at 1. 0 k. Hz Internal Impedances: 4. Power Consumption: App 1. VA Dimensions: Decade: 1. PSU: 1. 10 x 2. 80 x 5. Weight: Decade: 0. PSU: 1. 5. 6kg. This item is available to Special Order.
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