The Linear SE in its topical mk II version satisfies every wish of even the most demanding music lovers. With its exquisite components, elegant housing variations and its thoroughly revised analogue board in Low-Z Copper it sets new standards for your music experience. Allow yourself to be convinced of its outstanding sound quality and impressive design – because great sound never looked better!
Imagine closing your eyes and getting carried away by the sound of your musical treasures: the individual timbres will blend into a fascinating artistic synthesis, causing the music to sound precisely as it was recorded. Our representative headphone amplifier can bring you this unique adventure. It lets you experience the music with all your senses time and again. Everybody will envy you this gem.
"The total is more than the sum of its parts – and these are already of premium quality in the Lehmannaudio Linear SE."
— i-fidelity.net
For our production we use top-grade components without exception, which we buy from selected manufacturers. Thus our Linear SE mk II is equipped off the shelf with capacitors from Mundorf in the power supply and also in the signal path, an ahp fuse and Mogami cables. Vibration-absorbing SSC feet are another standard feature of the Linear SE mk II.
This reference class headphone amplifier also copes with the highest of aesthetic demands. The housing developed by product designer Guido Gutenstein will impress you with its simple elegance and a noble silk flat aluminium finish. Match different housing and faceplate versions with freely selectable LED colours and black or silver 3S Device Feet, as you desire. That way the Linear SE mk II will become your very personal gem to assort well with your taste and/or existing devices.
Some thousand music lovers in the world are already sold on our Linear headphone amplifier. Even with extremely demanding industrial customers – from the WDR to Sennheiser and Zimmerli – it has become firmly established. HiFi and studio magazine editors use our sound master as reference device. Now the Linear SE mk II is writing a new chapter of this success story.
The impressing technical details of the Linear SE.
| Linear SE | |
| Input impedance | 47 kohms |
| Maximum gain | 0 dB, 10 dB, 18 dB, 20 dB selectable via DIP switches |
| Frequency response | 10 Hz (-0.3 dB) to 35 kHz (-1 dB) |
| Signal to noise ratio | > 100 dB at gain 0 dB |
| THD | < 0.001 % at 6 mW/300 Ohms |
| Channel separation | > 70 dB at 10 kHz |
| Output power | 400 mW/60 Ohms 200 mW/300 Ohms |
| Output impedance | pre-out 60 Ohms phones out 5 Ohms |
| Connectors audio | Neutrik headphone jacks with gold plated contacts
1 x pre-out 2 x phones out gold plated RCA sockets with teflon insulation |
| Power consumption | 10 W |
| Outer dimensions W x D x H | 120 mm x 296 mm x 59 mm |
| Weight | 2.2 kg netto |
| Digital options | |
| USB-DAC 384/32 | Prioritization: I: USB input II: line input analogue |
| TOSLINK/SPDIF DAC 192/24 | Prioritization: I: TOSLINK input II: RCA input digital III: line input analogue |
| Input impedance | |
| 47 kohms | |
| Maximum gain | |
| 0 dB, 10 dB, 18 dB, 20 dB selectable via DIP switches | |
| Frequency response | |
| 10 Hz (-0.3 dB) to 35 kHz (-1 dB) | |
| Signal to noise ratio | |
| > 100 dB at gain 0 dB | |
| THD | |
| < 0.001 % at 6 mW/300 Ohms | |
| Channel separation | |
| > 70 dB at 10 kHz | |
| Output power | |
| 400 mW/60 Ohms 200 mW/300 Ohms |
|
| Output impedance | |
| pre-out 60 Ohms phones out 5 Ohms |
|
| Connectors audio | |
| Neutrik headphone jacks with gold plated contacts
1 x pre-out 2 x phones out gold plated RCA sockets with teflon insulation |
|
| Power consumption | |
| 10 W | |
| Outer dimensions W x D x H | |
| 120 mm x 296 mm x 59 mm | |
| Weight | |
| 2.2 kg netto | |
| Digital options | |
| USB-DAC 384/32 | |
| Prioritization: I: USB input II: line input analogue |
|
| TOSLINK/SPDIF DAC 192/24 | |
| Prioritization: I: TOSLINK input II: RCA input digital III: line input analogue |
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The Linear SE is available with different housing surfaces in aluminium.
Aluminium (silver)
Available upgrade options for the Linear SE (production series until December 2018)
The new Linear II mainboard is equipped with the improved components of the Linear SE board and built using a special low-impedance technology (low-Z copper) which raises the price of the naked PCBs by a factor of about 10. But the effort is worthwhile. This technology results in even better dynamic values, but above all it produces once again a significant increase of the sonic performance: transient response and spatial imaging are even closer to the original.
Download the order form. Print it out and send the filled out form together with your device to the given address. Within a few weeks you’ll get your modified device back and can pay conveniently by invoice.
Upgrade with the new low-Z copper analogue board starting from 499 EUR
Optional extra: installation of 3S device feet plus 99 EUR
Shipping via UPS within Europe included
Payment method: invoice
"We had expected that, owing to its potent output stage, it would not only consort better with the Sennheiser than its rival in terms of coarse dynamics, but also with the magnetostatic model from HiFi Man. However, the fact that it was playing the music with the same ardour, drawing the confines of the room by no means tighter, did surprise us after all."
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"The Lehmannaudio Linear SE is a superb sounding and reasonably equipped headphone amplifier which can even double as a single source preamp if need be. Without neglecting even the smallest of details, this amp’s nonchalant style of play can instantly win you over."
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