New LCD-5s Flagship Planar Headphone with SLAM Audeze, January 22, 2026

LCD-5s

Flagship Planar Headphones

Refinement. Precision. Luxury.

Incorporating our 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 earpads are precisely sculpted to ensure long-term comfort and improved seal.

Engineered for 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 — Punch, Detail, Presence

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.

Elegant Design

Sophisticated copper accents highlight the outstanding handcrafted material quality — featuring carbon fiber, magnesium, genuine leather, and polished polymer acetate.

New Earpad Geometry

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-Purity Cable

LCD-5s uses our 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.

“The LCD-5s is upgraded and improved beyond any reasonable expectation. It's better, bigger, smoother, wider, deeper, more articulate, and more comfortable.”

-Bernie & Dale Becker
Latin Grammy Winning Mastering Engineers

Package Includes

LCD-5s Headphone
4-pin XLR premium balanced cable

4-pin XLR to 6.3mm TRS adapter

6.3mm TRS to 3.5mm adapter

Aluminum Travel Case

Specifications

Style  Over-ear (circumaural), open-back

Transducer type  Planar Magnetic

Magnetic structure  Fluxor™ magnet array

Phase management  Fazor™

Acoustic management  SLAM™

Magnet type  Neodymium N50

Diaphragm type  Nano-Scale Parallel Uniforce™

Transducer size  90 mm

Maximum SPL  >130dB

Frequency response  5Hz - 50kHz

Impedance  30 ohms

THD  <0.1% @ 100dB SPL

Sensitivity  90dB/1mW (@Drum Reference Point)

Minimum power requirement  >100mW

Recommended power level  >500mW

Maximum power handling  5W RMS

Weight  475g

Shipping Weight  9 lbs.

Package dimensions  16 L x 14 H x 8 W in.

Press Release Documents

Website Address

https://www.audeze.com/
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