Lehmannaudio Traveller wins Plus X Awards
In June this year, even before the launch of the product, German audiophile manufacturer Lehmannaudio won four Plus X Awards for the Traveller headphone amplifier. The expert awards jury recognised the mobile headphone amplifier for excelling in the High Quality, Innovation and Design categories, as well as declaring it 'Best Product of the Year 2014'.
The Traveller is a compact headphone amplifier, designed to improve the sound quality from any portable audio player. It is entirely analogue. The player's headphone output is plugged into the Traveller's input. This amplifies the signal by up to ten decibels. The listener's headphones are also plugged into the Traveller in order to receive this signal.
This does two things, says Lehmannaudio. First, the Traveller is inherently a better performer with headphones of all kinds than the amplifiers built into portable music players. Second, it relieves the load on those players so they're able to produce a higher quality signal for the Traveller than they could deliver to headphones.
Weighing only 200 grams, and measuring 80mm wide by 90mm tall and 25mm thick, it still manages to pack 4,000mAh of energy to power your headphones for as long as twenty hours. Its frequency response extends from 20Hz to 30kHz at -0.5dB, and it can deliver up to 12mW into 330 ohm headphones, and 120mW into 33 ohm headphones. It's charged from a regular 5 volt USB-style charger.
The traveller uses high quality components, including the all-important 3.5mm stereo sockets which are provided by German firm Lumberg.
The going price in Australia for the Lehmannaudio Traveller is around $780.
For more information on the Lehmannaudio Traveller visit Australian distributor Busisoft.
Marc Rushton
StereoNET’s Founder and Publisher was born in England and raised on British Hi-Fi before moving to Australia. He developed an early love of music and playing bass guitar before discovering the studio and the other side of the mixing desk. After writing for print magazines, Marc saw the future in digital publishing and founded the first version of StereoNET in 1999.
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