Do you have any idea how great your headphones really could sound? Hear a Black Cube Linear now and expect a surprise!

Dynamic headphones are much more different than most people realize. For the same sound pressure level the power needed with different headphone models can vary up to a factor of about 500! Impedances can be different to a factor of more than 20!

This is the reason why different headphone models have very individual requirements to the headphone amplifier driving them in terms of voltage and current. Everybody who once has connected a high quality headphone to any given standard headphone output knows about this problem.

With the launch of the Black Cube Linear there is now a high end headphone amplifier to realize even the highest demands to reference quality headphone music reproduction.

For stereo setups with just one source like a CD player or a turntable with a phono stage the Black Cube Linear is the simplest and most effective active preamp one can think of. All audio connectors including the two Neutrik phone jacks come with gold plated contacts. No external Y-adapter is needed!

The faceplate and the massive milled aluminium knob for the smooth running 27mm ALPS high grade volume control are available in anodized black or silver.

To to get the best out of your headphone you will have to try the Black Cube Linear.

>Information:

2 page brochure Black Cube Linear (PDF, 197kB)

"Hifi as a Hobby?", interview with analog wizard Aalt Jouk van den Hul (PDF, 261KB)

"Recording the music" , interview with studio owner, audio engineer and label manager Fritz de With (PDF, 270kB)

"The art of Mastering" interview with the owner and audio engineer of the nost experienced independent mastering studio in Holland (PDF, 298kB)

Techletter headphone amplifiers (PDF, 98kB)


>Review excerpts:

Positive feedback OnLine, Jan 2005

"...a high quality, flexible, high value-for-money piece of gear. I can only classify it as „Highly Recommended.“ If you‘re in the market for a high-end headphone amp, you must audition this piece. It‘s a winner."
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Max Dudious

Stereo 08/2004

"The shallow unit from Cologne pumped so much drive, impact and transparency into the earpieces of practically every pair of headphones we tried that it became alarmingly obvious that built-in headphone amplifiers are mostly nice gimmicks but in the end only temporary solutions."
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Holger Barske

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"The Black Cube Linear once again is a genuine Lehmann: professionally designed and crafted and in the best sense of the word worth the money. It should be extremely difficult to find another headphone amplifier that so harmonically combines diversity of information and emotionality as well."
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Dirk Sommer

DVD Home Theater 09/2004

"...the sound is exceptionally smooth (grain free), very dynamic yet rich, warm transparent and detailed. In other words it is what you would expect from a high end product, and, more important it sounds great even when feeding a very demanding load." Rating: "TOP OF THE LINE"

Thanassis Moraitis

Hifi & Records 03/2004

"At first go Norbert Lehmann got a headphone amp going that belongs to the creme de la creme of this amplifier species and is the author's new personal favourite."

Reinhold Martin