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 companion to the legendary LCD-X, offering the same world-class transparency and detail with the added benefit of superior acoustic isolation. Trusted by award-winning artists and engineers, it delivers a "surgical" level of accuracy. Its neutral tuning and incredibly fast transient response make it an essential tool for studio tracking and mixing where environmental noise or microphone bleed must be eliminated without sacrificing the massive, open soundstage for which Audeze is known.

Audio Features & Drivers

• Patented Fazor™ Waveguides: Features Audeze’s Fazor elements to manage sound wave interference. This technology results in a more three-dimensional soundstage, improved phase response, and an airy high-frequency extension that is virtually unparalleled in a closed-back design.
• Ultra-Thin Uniforce™ Diaphragms: Utilizes a space-age diaphragm material that is four times larger than typical headphone drivers. This large surface area allows for lightning-fast reactions to the most complex musical transients, ensuring zero "smearing" and total clarity across the 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 diaphragm, resulting in authoritative, deep sub-bass and vanishingly low distortion even at high volumes.
• Carbon Fiber Acoustic Chambers: The earcups are crafted from non-resonant, high-gloss carbon fiber. This material was selected for its extreme rigidity and acoustic density, which helps to suppress internal reflections and standing waves that can "muddy" the sound in closed-back headphones.
• Superior Isolation: Designed to "take the environment out of the equation," the LCD-XC provides exceptional passive noise cancellation, allowing for critical listening in loud control rooms or on-location recording sessions.
• Pinpoint Imaging Accuracy: Despite being a closed design, the XC provides a holographic sense of space. Engineers rely on it for its ability to accurately place instruments in a 3D field, making it one of the few closed-back options suitable for professional spatial audio mixing.

Streaming & Connectivity

• 4-pin XLR Balanced Cable: Includes Audeze's high-purity braided OCC copper 4-pin XLR balanced cable, ensuring the highest possible signal integrity and channel separation for professional studio gear.
• Premium 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 use with consumer-grade hardware and portable devices.
• Locking Mini-XLR Jacks: Features gold-plated 4-pin mini-XLR connectors on the earcups to ensure a secure, high-current connection that is built to withstand the rigors of daily professional use.
• High Efficiency Platform: With a 20-ohm impedance and 100dB sensitivity, the LCD-XC is remarkably easy to drive. It delivers reference-grade performance directly from laptop outputs or mobile interfaces, though it rewards high-current desktop amps with increased dynamic "punch."
• Zero Latency Analog Design: A 100% passive analog tool with no internal DSP or batteries, ensuring it remains a timeless, reliable part of your signal chain for decades.

Comfort & Dimensions

• Genuine Black Leather Earpads: Outfitted with Audeze’s premium, supple genuine leather earpads. These provide a luxurious feel and a superior acoustic seal, which is vital for maintaining the headphone’s linear sub-bass extension and isolation.
• Steel & Leather Suspension Headband: Features a lightweight spring-steel headband and a perforated genuine leather suspension strap that distributes the weight evenly across the head, significantly reducing fatigue during marathon sessions.
• Unit Weight: 677g (1.49 lbs).
• High-Density Memory Foam: The earpads are filled with specialized memory foam that contours to the shape of the user's head, ensuring an ergonomic fit and helping to further isolate the listener from ambient noise.
• Improved Weight Distribution: The 2021-and-later revisions feature a modernized yoke and headband system that optimizes the center of gravity, making the headphones feel more stable and balanced during movement.

Design & Build

• Carbon Fiber Aesthetics: The earcups feature a stunning high-gloss woven carbon fiber finish, giving the headphones a sophisticated, "hi-tech" industrial look that matches the AVM and MRX series equipment.
• Anodized Aluminum Components: The rings and yokes are made from high-grade anodized aluminum, ensuring the LCD-XC is one of the most durable and "stalwart" tools in the professional audio world.
• Hand-Assembled in USA: Every pair is handcrafted and frequency-matched within +/- 1dB in Audeze’s Southern California workshop to ensure perfect stereo balance and professional-grade reliability.
• Professional Travel Case: Includes a heavy-duty, waterproof, and crush-proof LCD Travel Hard Case, providing ultimate protection for the headphones during transport between studios or on tour.
• Modular Reliability: Designed for a long service life; the cables, earpads, and headband are all easily user-replaceable, ensuring the LCD-XC remains at peak performance for years to come.

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.