Lehmannaudio - High-End from Germany

Yes, all products are exclusively developed and manufactured in Germany.

After registering your product Lehmannaudio gives a 2 year limited warranty for all products. You can register online or use the printed form supplied with the product and send it by fax, email or mail.

Sure, please contact us with the problem you have. We will find a solution.

Yes, we'd love to update your device, no matter where you live. Just contact us and don't forget to tell us your device type and serial number.

Since we do not sell directly to end customers and because of the different international pricing we don't have any prices online. Please contact your favourite dealer or the distributor in charge for your country and ask for a pricelist.

We do not sell directly to end customers. But there are hifi shops that sell our products online.

Yes, that is possible. Please contact us.

Yes, you can talk to us on Twitter and Facebook.

Sure, we are present at trade fairs, mainly in Germany, like the Frankfurt Music Fair, the Tonmeistertagung in Leipzig, or the High End in Munich. We are looking forward to meeting you there!

As long as you can realise a volume setting that is loud enough, the low gain setting is to be preferred. As a matter of fact potentiometers tend to have a weaker channel balance in the lower volume range. Secondly the danger of cranking up the volume to insane and dangerous levels is minimised.

We recommend to leave the gain settin at 0dB. At 12 o'clock you still have 20dB of reserve. If you choose a higher gain setting, you will have to turn down the potentiometer to a lower level and also slightly increase the noise.
Using higher gain settings is only recommended in cases where the potentiometer reaches the maximum level and volume is still insufficient. This is highly depending on the efficiency of the headphone in question.

In general low impedance headphones have a higher current consumption and a higher impedance results in a higher voltage consumption to reach higher sound pressure levels.
The sensitivity of the headphone itself is a much more important parameter because here the sound pressure level can be seen much more obviously.

There are recommendations by European and US authorities which differ greatly and which do not apply to private listening but to people's working environment.

First try to wear the headphone without music playing. Not only ears are different - heads are different as well. You will never feel comfortable with a headphone that does not fit your head.
Secondly, choose from those headphones you feel comfortable with. Time is a very important factor here. Some headphones sound quite spectacular first, but cause headaches when used for a longer time.

The best music is the music you personally know very well. There are of course some other helpful rules:

• Use music that is not overly compressed dynamically. Music with a very low dynamic range causes listening fatigue and does not allow to evaluate the dynamic behaviour of the piece of equipment in question.
• Use music that does not have a reduced data rate. That means MP3 files are rather unsuitable.

The Linear USB supports the major operating systems Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Please make sure that you selected the right output device ("USB Loudspeaker" or "Burr-Brown") in your operating system preferences.

Yes, please use the Apple Camera Connection Kit and connect the Linear USB to it.

As a rule of thumb you should first go for highly efficient speakers (+87 dB), but this is also dependent on the planned distance to the listening place and to the desired listening level.

We found that speakers with a simpler frequency division network tend to absorb less energy from the sound - regardless of efficiency. I had two pairs of speakers compared with the same efficiency but with different concepts for the filter network. One pair sounded really tired and sleepy, the other pair was alive and full of energy.

The Stamp has a maximum rated power of 20W per channel into 4 Ohms. So 4 Ohm speakers can make better use of the power delivered by the Stamp. Into 8 Ohms there are approx. 11W.

In every case, try to audition the combination in your own environment with your own music to get an impression if the setup will work for you or not. We had very good experiences with Odeon speakers, which are all 90dB and more types.

All of our phono stages can be used with MM and MC cartridges.

Apart from the selectable internal impedances, all phono stages have a slot for a custom impedance. Please refer to the product manual or ask your local Lehmannaudio dealer for help.