8 reviews

Audeze

Planar-magnetic headphones

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Audeze is an American manufacturer of planar-magnetic headphones, founded in 2008 and based in Santa Ana, California, known for its high-end LCD series alongside professional and gaming audio; it became a subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2023.

Founded: 2008
Based in: Santa Ana, California, USA

Headphone$329

Audeze Maxwell 2

Nobody argues with the detail — they argue about the bass, the weight, the hiss and whether you drew a good unit.

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Headphone$1,199

Audeze LCD-X

Bass nobody argues with, a 4 kHz dip everybody does — the studio planar that splits the room on EQ, weight and price.

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Headphone$1,699

Audeze MM-520

SLAM bass and a softened midrange win over nearly everyone who wears it — and lose the MM-500 loyalists and graph-readers who never will.

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Headphone$299

Audeze MM-100

A Grammy-winning mixer's studio planar for $399 — and one of the most argued-over tunings at the price: articulate and honest to one half of the room, thin and shouty to the other.

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Headphone$4,500

Audeze LCD-5

The flagship that traded the Audeze house sound for pure resolution — and split the room so cleanly that one camp calls it the brightest headphone they have ever measured while another calls it darker than an HD 650.

13 sources4 divided topics

Headphone$1,699

Audeze MM-500

A Grammy-winning mixer's 'planar HD650': a neutral studio tuning nearly everyone respects — and a clamp, a lean bass and a $1,699 price nearly everyone argues about.

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