Power & Performance

• Transducer Type: Planar Magnetic
• Transducer Size: 106 mm
• Frequency Response: 10Hz – 50kHz
• Sensitivity: 100 dB/1mW (at Drum Reference Point)
• Impedance: 20 Ohms
• Maximum SPL: >130dB
• Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): <0.1% @ 100dB SPL, 1kHz
• Power Handling: 5W RMS (Maximum)
• Recommended Power: >250mW (Minimum requirement >100mW)
• Performance: The Audeze LCD-XC is the closed-back equivalent of the industry-standard LCD-X, specifically designed for engineers and audiophiles who require world-class transparency in environments where isolation is non-negotiable. It delivers the same surgical detail and fast transients as its open-back sibling but adds a slightly more "energetic" upper-midrange and a deep, pressurized sub-bass. It is arguably the most neutral and accurate closed-back planar magnetic headphone on the market today.

Audio Features & Drivers

• Patented Fazor™ Waveguides: Utilizing Fazor elements to manage sound flow, the LCD-XC achieves a level of imaging and high-frequency "air" that is almost unheard of in a closed-back design. This technology ensures the soundstage remains expansive and holographic rather than "boxy."
• Ultra-Thin Uniforce™ Diaphragms: Features a space-age diaphragm material with a variable-width voice coil. This allows the driver to react with lightning speed to the most complex musical passages, ensuring zero "smearing" of detail across the frequency spectrum.
• Double-Sided Fluxor™ Magnet Array: Driven by a powerful push-pull Neodymium N50 magnetic array. This dual-sided configuration provides maximum control over the 106mm diaphragm, resulting in a "tight" and authoritative sound with vanishingly low distortion.
• Carbon Fiber Acoustic Chambers: The earcups are crafted from high-density, non-resonant carbon fiber. This material is chosen for its extreme rigidity, which helps to eliminate internal standing waves and colorations that typically plague closed-back headphones.
• Exceptional Isolation: Engineered to block out external ambient noise while preventing any sound leakage (microphone bleed). This makes the XC the premier choice for tracking vocalists in the studio or mixing in loud, public environments.
• Linear Bass Accuracy: Unlike consumer closed-back headphones that bloat the mid-bass, the XC offers a flat, linear extension down to 10Hz, providing a "truthful" representation of the low-end.

Streaming & Connectivity

• 4-pin XLR Combo Cable: Includes Audeze's high-purity braided OCC copper 4-pin XLR balanced cable, providing the best possible signal integrity and channel separation for professional balanced amplifiers.
• Adapter Suite: Ships with a 4-pin XLR to 1/4" (6.3mm) single-ended adapter and a 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter for maximum versatility across different hardware.
• Professional Mini-XLR Jacks: Features locking, gold-plated 4-pin mini-XLR connectors on the earcups, ensuring a reliable, low-resistance connection that can survive thousands of cable swaps in a studio setting.
• Ultra-High Efficiency: With a 20-ohm impedance and 100dB sensitivity, the LCD-XC is remarkably easy to drive. It delivers reference-grade volume and clarity directly from laptop outputs or mobile interfaces, though it rewards high-current desktop amps with increased dynamic "punch."
• Pure Analog Design: A completely passive component with no internal batteries or digital processing, ensuring a reliable, zero-latency signal path for critical monitoring.

Comfort & Dimensions

• Leather-Free "Super-Suede" Pads: Outfitted with Audeze’s premium leather-free earpads. These are crafted from a specialized microfiber fabric that provides the same acoustic seal as leather but with improved breathability and a softer "suede-like" feel against the skin.
• Ventilated Suspension Headband: Features a lightweight spring-steel headband and a perforated leather-free suspension strap. This design effectively distributes the weight across the head to prevent fatigue during long marathons.
• Unit Weight: 677g (1.49 lbs).
• Contoured Memory Foam: The earpads are filled with high-density, acoustically-engineered memory foam that contours to the user's head, ensuring the critical acoustic seal required for accurate bass response and isolation.
• Rugged Articulation: The aluminum yokes provide significant swivel and tilt, ensuring the massive earcups sit flush and comfortably on any head shape.

Design & Build

• Carbon Fiber Aesthetics: The earcups feature a high-gloss, woven carbon fiber finish that provides a modern, "hi-tech" look while contributing to the unit’s structural integrity.
• Anodized Aluminum Construction: The rings and yokes are made from high-grade anodized aluminum, ensuring the LCD-XC is one of the most durable professional tools in the Audeze lineup.
• Hand-Assembled in California: Every pair is handcrafted and frequency-matched within +/- 1dB in Audeze’s Southern California workshop to ensure perfect stereo imaging.
• Professional Travel Case: Includes a heavy-duty, waterproof, and crush-proof LCD Travel Hard Case to protect the headphones during transport between studios or locations.
• Modular Reliability: All critical wear components—cables, earpads, and headband—are user-replaceable, ensuring the LCD-XC remains a lifelong professional investment.

For most products, we cover three years for the drivers and one year for the rest of the parts, and this begins from the original date of retail purchase. Warranty on Mobius (discontinued), Penrose (discontinued), Maxwell, MM-100, LCD-S20 and FILTER is one year for all parts including drivers, except in the EU and UK, where minimum warranty may be longer, or anywhere else as mandated by local laws.

 For the full text of our warranty policy, please download and view this PDF.

 Warranty coverage is limited to factory defects only, not wear and tear or cosmetic damage from use. Please note that we consider earpads, headband straps/cushions, eartips, earlocks, earhooks, and batteries to be "consumable items" and offer no warranty on those parts.

 As long as product was originally purchased from an authorized dealer, the warranty is transferable and is valid from the original date of purchase. We just ask for proof of that purchase date by using the original purchase receipt. If no original receipt is available, we use the date of manufacture or shipment from our facility for the beginning of the warranty period, and warranty coverage is discretionary.

 We reserve the right to deny warranty claims for purchases originally made from anyone NOT on the dealer list, and proof of original purchase is required to claim warranty service.

 Warranty Service Guidelines:

For direct warranty service we cover parts, labor and return shipping to the customer, so the only cost to customers is shipping the product to us for repair. If a defect occurs within the first 30 days after the original retail sale, we pay for shipping both ways from the original point of delivery by providing a pre-paid shipping label. The decision to repair or replace a defective product is solely at Audeze's discretion.

Products must be serviced either by the distributor we sold them to, or directly by us here in the USA. If a product was purchased in the USA, it must be returned for service here, not to any international distributor. Likewise, a product purchased in any specific country must be returned for service to that country (or directly to us in the USA). For this reason we recommend that international customers purchase locally when possible, so any service needs can also be handled locally by our dealers or distributors. We also recommend verifying service contracts with dealers/distributors before purchase, as they are independent businesses and have their own policies in place.