Decade Phono Preamplifier By Lehmann Audio
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The Lehmann Audio Decade is an ambitious phono stage that forges a link between the Black Cube series and the top-of-the-line model Silver Cube. However, the Decade is its own high flyer rather than a stopgap.
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Analog, Lehmann Audio, Phono Preamp
Decade Phono Preamplifier By Lehmann Audio
$2,099
The Lehmann Audio Decade is an ambitious phono stage that forges a link between the Black Cube series and the top-of-the-line model Silver Cube. However, the Decade is its own high flyer rather than a stopgap.
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Lehmann Decade – Premium Phono Stage for Audiophile-Level Sound
The Lehmann Decade brings studio-grade precision and musical passion to your listening experience, delivering flawless sound far beyond its price category. Whether you revisit your favorite LPs or explore new records, alone or with friends, the Decade impresses with its harmonic richness, precise detail, and lively, engaging performance.
Audiophile-Grade Components
Lehmann uses carefully selected input stages, similar to those found in high-end mixing consoles and professional microphone preamps, to achieve ultra-low-noise reproduction. Its ultra-precision passive RIAA equalization network, positioned between two linear gain stages and built with low-loss MKP capacitors, ensures that transients, dynamics, and tonal nuances reach the listener in a natural, uncolored manner.
Enhanced Power for Maximum Performance
The PWX II power supply feeds the Decade with extremely low-noise DC voltages, using inductive elements at critical points. Connected via shielded cables with Neutrik connectors, this design improves clarity, dynamics, and musical openness. PWX II is backward-compatible with Black Cube series devices, offering an additional output for versatile system integration.
Customizable for Any System
The Decade offers extensive tuning options to match your individual system:
- Up to 66 dB gain for high- or low-output MC and MM cartridges
- Free slot for custom impedance to optimize MC systems
- Adjustable input capacitance for precise tonal control
- Discrete class-A output stage with high quiescent current for driving long cables
- Front-panel toggle switches with high-quality internal relays for gain and soft bass roll-off control
Professional-Endorsed Neutrality
Renowned for its natural, neutral sonic profile, the Decade is a favorite among professional recording studios and audiophiles alike, delivering exceptional musical detail, dimensionality, and realism.
The Lehmann Decade is a phono stage that allows you to fully immerse yourself in your music, revealing subtle textures, tonal richness, and the full emotional impact of every recording.
Note: The sonic profile of Lehmann gear is perhaps the most neutral we can find. This brand is quite popular with our professional music/recording studio clients.
Reviews
Hi-Fi World
“As LP pickup cartridges get ever more sophisticated they need a neutral preamplifier like Lehmann’s Decade. It offers silence and a svelte sound rather than high drama.”
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Hifi News
“In this two-box model the usual plastic-cased in-line transformer gives way to Lehmann’s PWX II power supply, its frontal aspect uniform with the phono stage itself except for its lack of controls, and notably well-built.”
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“If the phono preamplifiers from Lehmann were a football team, the Decade would bear the shirt number ten because it has the overview, can read the game and has the power to decide it on its own.”
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LP Magazin
“It is very fast and three-dimensional, delivers an excellent resolution of details while sketching room dimensions deeper than wide. Tonally on the safe side, yes – how ever not just boringly reproducing, but in an absolutely exciting and tingling manner.”
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Hi-Fi World
“It has a wonderfully spacious sound, and is truly exceptional in this respect at the price, with fine dimensionality, dynamics and a very natural, airy treble. As such, it comes heartily recommended, but it won’t suit those who place immediacy over accuracy, for whom there are many choices.”
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Specifications
The impressing technical details of the Decade.
Sensitivity for output level 775 mV/ 0 dB (with activated high gain switch): MM: 3.8 mV/1 kHz; MC: 0.38 mV/1 kHz
Gain 1 kHz: MM: 46 dB; MC: 66 dB
Maximum input level 1 kHz: MM: 45 mV; MC: 4.5 mV
Signal to noise ratio (RMS unweighted): MM: 78 dB; MC: 69 dB
Gain: 36 dB, 46 dB, 56 dB, 66 dB
Channel separation: > 80 dB at 10 kHz
Input impedance: 47 kohms, 1 kohm, 100 ohms, 1 x custom load
Output impedance: 5 ohms
Input capacitance: 47 pF to 1,370 pF
Channel mismatch: typ. max 0.5 dB
Bass filter: 50 Hz, 6 dB/oct.
Power consumption: app. 13 VA
Outer dimensions W x D x H:
Audio section: 110 mm x 280 mm x 50 mm
PWX II power supply: 110 mm x 280 mm x 50 mm
Weight:
Audio section: 0.87 kg
PWX II power supply: 1.56 kg
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