Headphones amplifiers — Lehmann Audio Traveller

The Traveller is a tiny portable headphone amplifier from Lehmann Audio, built into a remarkably compact and lightweight chassis. The Traveller brings Lehmann Audio's considered engineering to a space-efficient portable headphone amplification format.

Key specs that matter

Maximum power reaches 120mW into 33 ohms or 12mW into 330 ohms. Frequency response spans 20Hz to 30,000Hz within plus-or-minus 3dB. Gain is a fixed 10dBu. Total harmonic distortion is under 0.02% at 1V RMS into 300 ohms, with signal-to-noise ratio exceeding 95dB. Output impedance is a low 3 ohms. At an astonishingly small 80 x 90 x 25mm and just 196g, the Traveller is among the smallest and lightest headphone amplifiers within Lehmann Audio's catalogue.

Sound and use context

Expect clean, detailed portable amplification reflecting the solid over-95dB signal-to-noise figure, packed into an astonishingly tiny and lightweight chassis suited to portable use.

Pairing

The low 3-ohm output impedance and fixed 10dBu gain suit a wide variety of moderate-sensitivity headphones for portable listening.

Alternatives

Lehmann Audio's own Linear-series models offer considerably more powerful, desktop-oriented alternatives within the same broader catalogue for buyers wanting a stationary setup instead.