Audeze LCD-S20 Closed-Back Planar Headphone (Check With Us For Inventory)

Studio-trusted sound, closed off from the world around you.

Marc Urselli, 3-time Grammy-winning producer/engineer, called it "a game-changer for tracking headphones in the studio."

Open-back planar headphones sound incredible, but they leak sound in both directions — great for a quiet room, useless anywhere you need real isolation. The LCD-S20 brings Audeze's studio-grade tuning to a genuinely closed-back design for the first time, so you get that same detailed, precise sound without broadcasting your music to everyone nearby, or letting outside noise bleed into your recordings.

That isolation isn't a bolt-on afterthought — SLAM™, Audeze's patent-pending acoustic technology, keeps bass extended and dynamic even at high volumes, while acoustically dampened earcups block external noise and prevent microphone bleed, which is exactly why studios use these for vocal and drum tracking. Under the hood, a 90mm planar magnetic driver with a Fluxor™ magnet array and Fazor™ phase management delivers the kind of pinpoint timing and low distortion that keeps you locked in time with a beat, and an 18-ohm impedance means it drives easily from a laptop, interface, or phone — no dedicated amp required, though it'll happily take one.

If you want Audeze's studio sound with real isolation — for tracking, for late-night listening, or just for shutting the world out — this is that headphone.