Source: Press Release, Last Accessed: 2025/05/07

Luxman's first 100th anniversary model is a headphone amplifier with high drivability and musicality. The story begins in 1925, when, inspired by an experimental broadcast from Japan’s NHK, a visionary businessman crafted a prototype radio receiver and shared its technical manual. This breakthrough captured the imagination of audio enthusiasts, igniting excitement and innovation. From this spark, Lux was born. The company soon ventured into designing and manufacturing radio tuners, amplifiers, and speakers.
Now, a century later, they proudly celebrate 100 years of sonic excellence and to honor this milestone and step boldly into the future, created the “Centennial” models designed to set new benchmarks in performance and sound quality for the next century.
Leading this special lineup is the flagship P-100 Centennial headphone amplifier, a testament to Lux's legacy and commitment to the future of high-fidelity audio.
The P-100 Centennial is a high-performance headphone amplifier featuring fully balanced architecture, enabled by uniting four independent amplifier blocks, enhanced by Lux's advanced LIFES amplifier feedback engine. Using a BTL (bridge-tied load) configuration, the balanced output combines the positive and negative signal outputs from four independent amplifier blocks. This setup enhances channel separation, positional accuracy, reduces intermodulation distortion and improves power regulation, the company says.
In addition to a standard (single ended) 6.3mm output terminal, there is a 4-pin XLR terminal and a 4.4mm terminal, both balanced, outputs. In addition, a 3-pin XLR terminal is also provided as a dedicated terminal for the parallel BTL balanced output mode using two P-100 Centennial units.
By applying LECUA processing, the unit offers three levels (0, -6, -12dB) of sensitivity switching, LR balance adjustment (0.5dB steps, LR 0 to -12dB) and output mute functions that match the impedance and efficiency of the headphones used without degrading the sound quality.
The chassis adopts a highly rigid, loop-less structure to prevent earth loop generation and eliminates the effects of chassis current impedance and magnetic fields. The bottom section features a 4.1mm thick (2.9 + 1.2mm) steel plate, which increases ground mass, lowers the product’s center of gravity and serves as a heatsink for the power block. Density gradient cast-iron feet are included to protect the delicate electronic signals inside from unwanted external vibrations.

For more information: https://www.luxman.com/

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