LCD-5s Excites Listeners With a New Ultra-Thin Driver, Redesigned Ear Pads, and a Palpably Physical Bass Response Features Audeze's thinnest Planar driver to date Proprietary breakthrough SLAM technology Crafted with premium materials Includes ultra-high purity XLR cable Bloom's Take The Audeze LCD-5s marks a confident return to the brand’s roots, blending the clarity and resolution of the LCD-5 with a renewed sense of weight, impact, and musicality. Its tuning strikes a careful balance, delivering deep, textured bass while maintaining exceptional control and separation across the spectrum. Where the LCD-5s truly stands out is in its midrange realism and overall cohesion. Vocals and instruments sound lifelike and naturally layered, supported by crisp, extended treble and a spacious, three-dimensional stage that feels immersive without exaggeration. Read our full review. Refinement. Precision. Luxury. Incorporating Audeze's latest technical advancements, the new LCD-5s rewards listeners with a vast, immersive soundscape and palpably physical bass response. A new driver design combines with SLAM technology to produce mastering-grade precision even better than the original LCD-5, with a more natural, lifelike frequency response. Redesigned ear pads are precisely sculpted to ensure long-term comfort and improved seal. Effortless Realism To present listeners the most natural frequency response, LCD-5s uses a new driver design featuring our thinnest, most responsive materials. The nano-scale Parallel Uniforce diaphragm connects to a revised chassis structure, allowing the most precise midrange tuning possible. SLAM Technology SLAM, short for symmetric linear acoustic modulator, is a new, patent-pending technology introduced on Audeze's flagship CRBN2 electrostatic headphone. LCD-5s offers powerful, extended bass response and a strikingly open soundstage, thanks to the pinpoint driver control allowed by the addition of SLAM technology. Designed for Luxury Sophisticated copper accents highlight the outstanding handcrafted material quality, featuring carbon fiber, magnesium, genuine leather, and polished polymer acetate. The smoothly flowing, curved forms of LCD-5s' new earpads are crafted to provide effortless comfort for hours of listening. This design also minimizes audible reflections to elevate sonic accuracy. Ultra High-Quality Cable LCD-5s uses Audeze's most premium cable, specially tuned with directional OCC high-purity copper strands, to provide a low capacitance, low resistance signal path, maintaining unsurpassed sonic precision and accuracy.
