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Headphones
Builds headphone amplifiers and phono stages in Cologne, including the Black Cube Linear that launched the HD800.
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about lehmannaudio
Lehmannaudio was founded in 1988 by Norbert Lehmann in Cologne, Germany, and has spent its entire run focused on two things: headphone amplifiers and phono stages. The brand's reputation rests on careful, conservative analog engineering — passive RIAA equalization, zero-global-feedback Class A output stages — rather than feature counts. The defining product is the Black Cube Linear, a reference-class headphone amplifier and preamplifier with selectable gain (0, 10, and 20 dB) to suit nearly any headphone; it was chosen as the official amplifier for the launch of Sennheiser's HD800, which cemented its standing. The Black Cube phono stage and its higher Black Cube SE and Statement variants cover the cartridge side, and the Linear USB adds an onboard DAC to the headphone-amp formula. Lehmannaudio competes in the desktop and reference headphone-amp space with brands like Sennheiser's own HDV series, Violectric, and SPL, and on the phono side with Sutherland, Pro-Ject, and Musical Fidelity — buyers come for the combination of measured engineering and long-term reliability. In the US it is carried by a strong dealer network including Upscale Audio, The Cable Co., Reference Analog, and Safe and Sound HQ. English-language press coverage is broad: Stereophile, What Hi-Fi, Headfonia, and SoundStage among them. Built in Germany.