Audeze LCDi4 in-Ear | Semi-Open | Headphone | Open Box | B-Stock
Price: $179.95
(as of May 18,2023 10:20:33 UTC – Details)
Product Description
The LCDi4 is a high-resolution headphone that always sounds musical, spacious, with powerful bass, an engaging midrange, and an extended top end. Its rich, vibrant sound has real scale and authority. It features a deep soundstage and reveals music in a very ambient way with exciting transparency and detail. The LCDi4’s natural timbre, especially through the midrange, has been called a thing of beauty. You’ll find yourself emotionally connected to the artist and music. Pair it with a high-quality headphone amplifier for best results. Its impedance is 30 ohms.
From Sound & Vision magazine:
“The Audeze LCDi4 are hands down the best-sounding in-ear headphones I’ve heard.”
“They’re the most transparent and open, have the flattest tonal balance, and the bass—OMG—is deeper and faster than any other in-ears on the planet!”
“They look, fit, and sound like no other in-ears.”
“They’re essentially an in-ear version of the full-size Audeze LCD4.”
“vanishingly low distortion and extraordinary clarity.”
“beautifully focused soundstage, deliciously transparent midrange, and clearer top end, and low-bass articulation.”
From Headphone Guru:
“the LCDi4s are truly worthy of their flagship status. The LCDi4s utilize planar magnetic drivers to achieve incredible definition and extremely low distortion levels.They borrow a lot of technology implemented in Audeze’s flagship full-sized headphone, the venerable LCD-4 and miniaturize everything to give you a portable on-the-go solution. What I heard was truly spectacular!”
“This was quite the achievement for the significantly smaller (and portable) LCDi4 in-ear headphones. Not only was the bass performance epic, the tone and timbre of the piano was spot on.”
“The sound staging capabilities of these in-ear headphones is simply the best I’ve heard from any portable setup.”
“the LCDi4s were able to go from a very quiet and intimate opening to a large, expansive and dynamic finish, really showing the dynamic range of these IEMs.”
“what truly set the LCDi4s apart was just how big they sounded.”
“the LCDi4s are not just a portable endgame setup, but a worthy top of the line desktop setup!”
From Metal-Fi:
“Let me get this off my chest right now: The i4’s are by far and wide the greatest sounding pair of headphones for their size I have ever heard. Think all of the fantastic transparency you get out of a traditional IEM or CIEM but layer on top of that gobs of deep and tight bass, a silky lush midrange, and finally, a planar with treble that is nothing to sneeze at. What’s most astonishing to me is that the i4 offers a robust, lush sound all delivered through a soundstage that I thought not possible in a headphone of this size.If I had to live with only one pair of headphones that I could carry around with me wherever I go, the LCDi4 would be it.”
Audeze LCDi4 Planar Magnetic In-Ear Headphones
Taking the driver technology from our #1 rated LCD4, Audeze has engineered the world’s most advanced in-ear headphones. With the added strength of new Magnesium frames, and the incredibly thin 0.5 micron thick film, the new LCDi4 delivers bass response flat to 15Hz, the widest, most accurate soundstage, and one-tenth the distortion. If you’re an Apple user, then add our new Lightning cable specifically designed for the LCDi4, and you’ll have a great-sounding integrated solution for on-the-go audio (and the best voice call quality of any Apple headset!). If you’ve been waiting for that truly revelatory moment in earphone listening, this is it!
The superiority of Planar Magnetic drivers
Unlike conventional headphones, Audeze’s planar drivers use a very, very thin film (much thinner than Saran Wrap for example) to move the air that produces sound. Because this material has such low mass compared to conventional headphone drivers, it moves extremely fast, thus giving much better transient response/impulse response. This means percussive sounds like the snare drum, strumming acoustic guitar, popping strings on a bass (and car crashes!), all sound much more accurate and lifelike. Additionally, Audeze headphones’ Step Response test is always positive – just like real world sounds, which is not always true of conventional headphones.
So conventional drivers not only have more moving mass (the cone, the surround, the voice coil, the spider, and the glue holding everything together), they also have more distortion than Audeze’s planar drivers. In fact, our drivers may have as little as 1/10 the distortion of other headphones.
All of this means more accurate, and therefore, more realistic sound.
ABOUT AUDEZE
Audeze started in 2008 in a garage (of course!) when its founders came across a revolutionary flexible circuit material developed for NASA. Realizing this could be a great advance in planar magnetic technology, they first started to make pro audio PA speakers, but dropped this project and started making headphones – the LCD-1.
Taking this first headphone to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, it was a tremendous hit, and that success launched the company. Hanging on that garage wall was the 2001 Space Odyssey poster, and that inspired the company’s name. The founders wanted a name that had something to do with a “journey through audio,” so Odyssey would be perfect, and that’s how the name Audeze (pronounced “odyssey”) was born.
AUDEZE’S PLANAR MAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY
Acoustically engineered for accuracy
Audeze’s innovative planar magnetic technology delivers clear and accurate sound that reveals everything on the recording.
Diaphragms thinner than a human hair
We use space-age materials in an ultra thin diaphragm four times larger than typical headphones for fast response times, dramatically reduced distortion, higher resolution and improved imaging.
Near zero distortion
Magnet arrays deliver a uniform driving force across the entire diaphragm for near zero distortion.
Fluxor magnets
Our patented Fluxor magnet design has almost 2x the efficiency of other magnets, giving the LCDi4 a more dynamic impact.
Internal waveguide
Patented Fazor Elements guide internal headphone soundwaves to avoid resonances for a more accurate waveform.
More on the LCDi4 Headphones
State-of-the-Art
Reviewers say the LCDi4 is the best in the world and its natural timbre, especially through the midrange, is a thing of beauty.
Industrial Design by BMW’s DesignWorks
A new Magnesium housing reduces internal resonances and creates an astonishingly beautiful sounding headphone.
Engineered and Handcrafted in Audeze’s California Factory
The LCDi4 is thoroughly engineered for long-term comfort and spacious, realistic sound. We closely match our planar transducers to +/- 1 dB!
