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Luxman · CENTENNIAL

Luxman L-100 Class A Integrated

$11,995

Signature technologiesThe Luxman story

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Luxman · CENTENNIAL

Built for Luxman's hundredth anniversary, the L-100 CENTENNIAL is the company's first pure Class A integrated amplifier to use the LIFES feedback engine: 20 W per channel, with no part of the output stage ever leaving Class A.

Luxman 100th anniversary model, introduced 2025. Supplied with the RA-17A aluminum remote.

20 W
per channel into 8 Ω, pure Class A (40 W into 4 Ω)
0.005%
THD at 1 kHz, 8 Ω
300
damping factor
56 lb
weight (25.4 kg)
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The story

Lux Corporation was founded in Osaka in 1925, and the L-100 CENTENNIAL is one of the models Luxman built to mark the hundred years since. It is a pure Class A integrated amplifier, the successor in spirit to the L-590AXII and L-550AXII, but it is the first Class A Luxman to use LIFES, the feedback engine introduced in 2022. LIFES 1.1 parallels the differential detection stage at the input to lower distortion further than the 1.0 version in the Z Series; it feeds back only the detected distortion component, so the music signal does not pass through the loop. The output stage is a bipolar triple-parallel push-pull biased so that it stays in Class A up to its rated 20 W into 8 Ω and 40 W into 4 Ω.

Twenty watts of Class A is not the same as twenty watts of Class AB. The output transistors conduct continuously, which means there is no crossover region and no change of character as the signal swings from small to large; the price is heat, and the L-100 draws 210 W from the wall with no signal. The power supply is a custom EI-core transformer with eight 10,000 µF capacitors, more than the L-507Z carries, because a Class A stage needs a stiff rail at all times. Ken Micallef, reviewing for Stereophile in September 2026, found that "the L-100 outplayed every memory I had of its Luxman siblings" and that it "consistently delivered extended treble, a clear midrange with a touch of warmth".

Everything else about the amplifier is current Luxman practice. The LECUA1000 attenuator provides 88 steps and connects directly to the amplification stages, followed by a discrete buffer derived from the C-10X. There is an MM/MC phono stage, bass and treble tone controls, loudness, balance, a mute and a preamplifier/power amplifier split. Input and output boards use peel-coat construction, the input selector uses low-noise relays, and the 4.4 mm balanced headphone output has independent left and right ground wiring. The front panel is blasted white with a chrome CENTENNIAL badge; the meters are backlit in a soft yellow rather than the white of the Z Series.

Where it sits depends on the speakers. With a sensitive loudspeaker in a modest room, 20 W of Class A is plenty and the L-100 will do things the 100 W L-505Z cannot. With a demanding speaker or a large room, the L-509Z is the better choice. The two are priced close together for a reason: they are alternatives, not steps on a ladder.

Luxman began in Osaka in June 1925 as the radio department of a picture-frame store, in the year broadcasting began in Japan, and dates its unbroken run of amplifiers from the SQ-5A integrated of 1961. The integrated amplifiers of today descend from the L-570 of the 1990s and the X generation of 2017, carry LIFES, the successor to the ODNF circuit of 1999, and are still built in Yokohama. Read the Luxman story →

Key technologies

  • Pure Class A output. Bipolar triple-parallel push-pull biased to stay in Class A to the rated 20 W into 8 Ω and 40 W into 4 Ω.
  • LIFES 1.1. Luxman's feedback engine with a paralleled differential detection stage; only the distortion component is fed back.
  • LECUA1000 attenuator. 88-step electronically controlled volume connected directly to the amplification stages.
  • Custom EI transformer. With eight 10,000 µF filter capacitors to hold the rails under continuous Class A current.
  • Peel-coat circuit boards. On the input, output and amplifier boards to remove resistive coatings from the signal path.
  • MM/MC phono stage. Built in, with tone controls, loudness, balance and a preamplifier/power amplifier split.

The L-100's matching source is the D-100 CENTENNIAL, designed alongside it; the L-509Z is the Class AB alternative at a similar price.

Specifications
Rated output 20 W + 20 W into 8 Ω; 40 W + 40 W into 4 Ω, pure Class A
Output stage Bipolar triple-parallel push-pull
Damping factor 300
Inputs Phono MM 2.5 mV / 47 kΩ; MC 0.3 mV / 100 Ω; line (RCA) 180 mV / 47 kΩ; balanced line (XLR) 180 mV / 55 kΩ; main in 450 mV / 47 kΩ
Outputs Pre out 1 V; two sets of speaker terminals (bi-wiring); 6.3 mm and 4.4 mm balanced headphone jacks
Frequency response Phono 20 Hz – 20 kHz (±0.5 dB); line 20 Hz – 100 kHz (−3 dB)
Total harmonic distortion 0.005% or less (8 Ω, 1 kHz); 0.015% or less (8 Ω, 20 Hz – 20 kHz)
Signal-to-noise ratio (IHF-A) Phono MM 80 dB; MC 65 dB; line 98 dB
Volume control LECUA1000, 88 steps
Tone controls Bass ±8 dB at 100 Hz; treble ±8 dB at 10 kHz
Power supply Custom EI-core transformer; 8 × 10,000 µF filter capacitors
Power consumption 260 W maximum; 210 W no signal; 0.5 W standby; auto power save after 20 minutes (off by default)
Dimensions (W × H × D) 440 × 178 × 454 mm (17.3 × 7.0 × 17.9 in), including knob and terminals
Weight 25.4 kg (56 lb)
Supplied RA-17A aluminum remote control, power cable

Luxman L-100 CENTENNIAL product page and specifications

Where it sits in the range

Luxman's pure Class A integrated amplifier, an alternative to the Class AB Z Series rather than a step within it.

  • Luxman L-505Z: 100 W Class AB, LIFES 1.0, MM/MC phono, $6,995
  • Luxman L-507Z: 110 W Class AB, LECUA1000, MM/MC phono, $10,495
  • Luxman L-100 CENTENNIAL (this model)
  • Luxman L-509Z: 120 W Class AB flagship, LECUA-EX, three-band tone, $14,495

The matching anniversary source is the D-100 CENTENNIAL SACD player.

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Signature technologies

The engineering behind the Luxman L-100 Class A Integrated

Luxman gives its technologies names because each one solves a specific problem. Here is what each does, where it came from, why it matters in a system, and what you may hear.

Feed back only the distortionSince 2021

LIFES

LIFES, the Luxman Integrated Feedback Engine System, is the amplifier circuit in every current Luxman amplifier. It descends from ODNF, which fed back only the distortion rather than the whole signal, and rebuilds that idea as a fully discrete error-detection circuit with about half the distortion of ODNF 4.0 and a 3 dB better signal-to-noise ratio. Read the deep diveClose

What it does

LIFES descends from ODNF, Only Distortion Negative Feedback, which Luxman first used in the CM-2100 car amplifier of 1999 and developed through ODNF 2.4 in the C-1000f of 2006, ODNF 4.0 in the C-900u and M-900u of 2013 and ODNF-u in the D-10X of 2020. Conventional negative feedback returns a slice of the output to the input, music included; ODNF compared input and output, extracted only the difference, the distortion, and fed back just that, so the main signal path behaved more like a feedback-free amplifier. LIFES keeps the idea and rebuilds the error-detection circuit as a fully discrete design, conceived, in Luxman's words, from first principles using simulation technology, with a new input FET, new voltage regulation and better thermal stability. Luxman claims roughly half the distortion of ODNF 4.0 and a 3 dB improvement in signal-to-noise ratio. LIFES 1.0 shipped first in the M-10X power amplifier, in Japan in 2021 and in the US in February 2022, then in the L-507Z, L-509Z, C-10X and L-505Z. LIFES 1.1 of 2025 parallels the input FETs of the error-detection stage; Phile-web measured the L-100's distortion at 0.002 percent at 1 kHz against 0.003 percent for the previous circuit.

Why it matters in a system

Feedback that carries the whole signal around the loop can trade clarity for a low distortion figure; feeding back only the error lets Luxman keep distortion and noise low while tuning the amplifier for its sound. Masakazu Nagatsuma, Luxman's head of development, said LIFES reduced distortion and improved signal-to-noise and gave the company more freedom in sound tuning. It is also why the Z-series integrateds, the C-10X and the M-10X share one character.

What you may hear

Quiet backgrounds and low distortion that John Atkinson confirmed on Stereophile's bench, where the L-509Z offered, in his words, excellent measured performance, especially its low-noise, low-distortion. Ken Micallef, listening to the same amplifier, called it an amp of brilliant purity and fluid communication.

A volume control with nothing to wearSince 2006

LECUA volume control

LECUA, the Luxman Electronically Controlled Ultimate Attenuator, replaces the potentiometer with a bank of fixed resistors switched electronically in 88 steps and merged with the amplifier circuit, so the volume control cannot wear, ignores vibration and sounds the same at every level. LECUA-EX adds a weighted encoder that is off the signal path entirely. Read the deep diveClose

What it does

In place of a mechanical potentiometer in the signal path, LECUA is a bank of fixed resistors switched electronically in 88 steps and merged with the amplifier circuit, so the volume control cannot wear, is immune to vibration and presents the same circuit to the signal at every level. The idea goes back to the C-10 preamplifier of 1996, whose Ultimate Attenuator used fixed-resistor switching; LECUA1000 replaced the switching with electronic control and was introduced in the C-1000f control amplifier of 2006 for Luxman's 80th anniversary. New LECUA1000, with 88 steps, arrived in the C-900u of 2013. LECUA-EX, introduced with the L-509Z in 2022 and the C-10X in 2023, adds a precise rotary encoder with a weighted rotation mechanism, so the knob turns like a conventional control while the encoder is, on the C-10X, entirely disconnected from the audio signal path; the C-10X offers 192 steps of 0.5 dB over 0 to 95.5 dB, the L-509Z 88 steps over 0 to 87 dB. The L-100, L-507Z and L-505Z use LECUA1000. A transformer version, LECUTA, is used in the CL-1000 tube preamplifier, and the LX-380 was the first tube amplifier with LECUA.

Why it matters in a system

The volume control sits in the signal path of everything you play, and a potentiometer's wiper is the one contact in an amplifier that moves. A resistor ladder switched electronically has no wiper to wear, no track to pick up vibration, and no change of frequency response or channel balance between quiet and loud listening, which is why Luxman has kept the design for twenty years and extended it through four generations.

What you may hear

Luxman's claim for LECUA-EX, as StereoNET reported it, is smoother and more precise volume control than ever before. What Hi-Fi? summed up the L-509Z's presentation as precision, clarity and balance; Ken Micallef in Stereophile heard clarity, balance, coherence, seamlessness, quietude, and a certain invisibility.

From the L-570 to the L-100 CENTENNIALSince 1990

Pure Class A

Luxman has kept a pure Class A integrated amplifier in its line for decades, from the 1990s L-570 through the L-550 and L-590 families to the L-100 CENTENNIAL, its first Class A integrated built on LIFES. The M-10X and B-100 power amplifiers run in Class A for their first 12 and 25 watts. Read the deep diveClose

What it does

In a Class A output stage the transistors conduct the full waveform continuously, which removes crossover distortion at the cost of heat and efficiency. Luxman has kept a pure Class A integrated in its line for decades: the L-570 of the 1990s, which Luxman calls its best-selling model of that decade; the L-550A and L-590A MkII, sold in the US in 2007 at $4,500 and $9,000; the L-550AX and L-590AX of 2011; the L-590AX MkII; and the 300-unit L-595A LIMITED of 2020, which reissued the L-570 design, followed by the L-595ASE in 2021. The L-100 CENTENNIAL, announced in Japan in September 2025 and worldwide on February 10, 2026, is the first update of the regular-line Class A flagship since the L-590AX II, about ten years, and the first pure Class A integrated built on LIFES: 20 watts per channel into 8 ohms and 40 into 4 from a bipolar three-parallel push-pull stage, LIFES 1.1, LECUA1000, a custom EI transformer with 80,000 µF of capacitance, and 210 watts drawn at idle. The power amplifiers keep the tradition at low levels: the M-10X runs in pure Class A up to 12 watts, the B-100 CENTENNIAL mono amplifier up to 25 watts into 8 ohms.

Why it matters in a system

A Class A amplifier spends its power on linearity rather than efficiency: there is no transition between output devices for the music to cross, so the smallest signals are handled by the same conducting stage as the loudest. Twenty watts of Class A is enough for a sensitive or moderately sized loudspeaker in most rooms, and on Stereophile's bench the L-100 clipped at about 72 watts into 8 ohms and 122 into 4 before its Class AB margin ran out.

What you may hear

Ken Micallef, reviewing the L-100 for Stereophile's October 2026 cover, called it the best Luxman he had heard and wrote that it seemed to float images into the room, not simply between the speakers. Dylan Wahl's measurements found a product designed with care in every technical aspect.

The housekeeping behind the soundSince 2017

Loop-less chassis, Beeline routing and peel-coat boards

Every Luxman amplifier shares a set of practices beneath the circuit: a chassis grounded so no loops form between panels, the shortest possible signal routing with curved traces, boards with the solder mask peeled from the signal area, oxygen-free copper wiring, oversized power supplies and cast-iron feet. They are built in Yokohama. Read the deep diveClose

What it does

Beneath the circuits, every Luxman amplifier and player shares a set of mechanical and electrical practices. The chassis is loop-less: panels and boards are grounded so that no ground loop forms between them, and the C-10X goes further with 100-micron gold-plated boards. Signal routing follows what Luxman calls the Beeline layout, the shortest path between stages, with curved rather than angled traces. On the L-507Z, L-509Z, L-100 and C-10X the printed boards are peel-coat types: the solder mask is removed from the signal area because, Luxman says, it can have a smearing effect on audio signals. Internal wiring is oxygen-free copper. Power supplies are oversized, with a 600 VA EI transformer and eight 10,000 µF capacitors in the L-509Z, a 1,250 VA transformer with flat copper windings in the M-10X, and a CI-core transformer in the C-10X. The units stand on density-gradient cast-iron insulator feet. Stereophile credited the L-509Z's design to three engineers: Masakazu Nagatsuma for its tonal qualities, Kunihiko Koki for the electronics and Takeharu Sato for the mechanicals. Luxman still manufactures in Yokohama, and each L-100 is built by hand by a team of four specialists.

Why it matters in a system

None of these details is a headline technology, and together they are much of why a Luxman sounds like a Luxman. Ground loops, long traces and resonant panels add noise and hash below the level of the specifications; removing them is what lets the low distortion of LIFES and the silence of LECUA reach the loudspeaker. It is also why the amplifiers weigh what they do: the L-509Z is 29.4 kg, the M-10X 48.4 kg.

What you may hear

Ken Micallef in Stereophile: the Luxman L-509Z never shouts, barks, or begs. Chris Kelly in Hi-Fi+ found its voicing perfectly judged, with incredible detail retrieval and no loss of musicality, and The Ear called it the yardstick by which future visiting amplifiers would be measured.

Moving coil through iron, not siliconSince 2008

Phono stages: super-permalloy transformers and the Articulator

Luxman's phono stages raise moving-coil signals through built-in step-up transformers with super-permalloy cores and begin with a paralleled-FET first stage. The E-250 is the half-width model; the E-07 of 2025 is the flagship, with four transformers, a front-panel load selector and balanced input and output. Both carry the Articulator, which demagnetizes the cartridge and transformers with the music signal. Read the deep diveClose

What it does

Luxman's solid-state phono stages amplify moving-coil cartridges through built-in step-up transformers with super-permalloy cores rather than active gain alone, and begin with a paralleled-FET first stage. The E-250, successor to the E-200 of 2008, is a half-width unit with 38 dB of gain for moving magnet and 57 and 66 dB for high- and low-output moving coil through a two-stage transformer, four MM load resistances and four capacitances, two inputs with the cartridge type set per input, a low-cut filter, a mono switch and RIAA accuracy of ±0.3 dB. The E-07 of February 2025 is the flagship: a non-feedback RIAA circuit with four parallel FETs, four super-permalloy transformers (left and right, high and low impedance), a six-position MC load selector on the front panel from 4.7 ohms to 1 kilohm, one balanced and two single-ended inputs, balanced and single-ended outputs with phase inversion, three power transformers, 3.6 mm copper base plates and a petal-shaped grounding structure Luxman calls PGS, at 13.2 kg. Both carry the Articulator, which demagnetizes the cartridge and transformers using the music signal itself. The L-509Z, L-507Z, L-505Z and L-100 integrateds have MM/MC stages built in, the L-509Z with two MC gain steps.

Why it matters in a system

A moving-coil cartridge delivers a few hundred microvolts, and the first stage that receives it sets the noise floor of the whole record-playing system. A transformer raises that signal with no active devices and no added noise before any amplification happens, which is why Luxman has stayed with the approach; the loading selector and per-input settings mean one phono stage can serve two turntables or two arms.

What you may hear

John Atkinson called the E-07 one of the best-measuring phono preamplifiers he had encountered, and Herb Reichert, in the same Stereophile review, an heirloom-quality product that should please the most discriminating phonophiles. Michael Fremer's advice at Tracking Angle: don't buy until you get a chance to hear the Luxman E-07.

All Luxman technologies and the company story

The Luxman story

Founded in Osaka in 1925 and built in Yokohama today: Class A, LIFES, LECUA and belt-drive turntables.

Founded 1925 in Osaka, Japan; headquartered and built in Yokohama, Kanagawa by T. Hayakawa and K. Yoshikawa · luxman.com

Milestones

  1. 1925 Founded in Osaka In June, the year radio broadcasting begins in Japan, T. Hayakawa and K. Yoshikawa start a radio department at the Kinsuido picture-frame store and incorporate it as Lux Corporation. The LUX-1730 and LUX-735 radios follow in 1928.
  2. 1958 MA-7A Luxman's first fully assembled post-war hi-fi power amplifier, a mono tube design with a patented NFB cross-over circuit, built on the OY output transformers developed in 1952.
  3. 1961 SQ-5A A vacuum-tube integrated with a center level meter and Luxman's own tone-control circuit. The company dates its unbroken run of tube amplifiers from it; the SQ-38 of 1964 follows.
  4. 1966 MQ-36 OTL An output-transformer-less tube power amplifier that stays in production until 1978. The MQ-60 of 1969 and CL-35 of 1970 are the models today's MQ-88uC and CL-38uC honor.
  5. 1975 Fiftieth anniversary: M-6000 A 300-watt stereo amplifier with the C-1000 preamplifier and T-110 tuner. The M-series amplifiers are designed by Tim de Paravicini; the Laboratory Reference Series follows in 1977.
  6. 1980 PD-300 A turntable with a vacuum disc stabilizer, a first for vacuum hold-down. Luxman stops building turntables after the PD-350 and does not return to them for 28 years.
  7. 1984 Alpine Electronics Alpine acquires the Luxman brand; Atsushi Miura leaves to found A&M and Air Tight in 1986. Co-badged products sold through mass retailers cost the brand its high-end dealers. Alpine sells in 1994.
  8. 1996 C-10 and B-10 Flagship separates that hold the top of the line for about ten years. The C-10's fixed-resistor Ultimate Attenuator is the ancestor of LECUA.Luxman C-10X Control Amplifier
  9. 1999 ODNF The CM-2100 car amplifier is the first product with Only Distortion Negative Feedback, which feeds back the distortion rather than the whole signal. Versions 2.4 (2006) and 4.0 (2013) follow.
  10. 2007 Eightieth anniversary; back in the US The B-1000f monoblocks (2005) and C-1000f control amplifier (2006) introduce LECUA1000 and ODNF 2.4. On a Higher Note returns Luxman to the United States after roughly two decades away.
  11. 2009 International Audio Group Luxman joins IAG, which keeps it separate from its other brands and leaves design and manufacturing in Kanagawa. The eleventh-generation SQ-38u launches the same year.
  12. 2011 PD-171 Turntable development resumes 28 years after the PD-350, with a belt-drive design that leads to the PD-151 (2019), the PD-191A and the PD-151 Mk II.Luxman PD-191A
  13. 2020 D-10X The world premiere of ROHM's MUS-IC BD34301EKV converter, run one per channel, with the LxDTM-i transport. The D-07X of 2023 uses the same chip and mechanism.Luxman D-07x SACD / DAC
  14. 2022 LIFES in the M-10X The successor to ODNF ships first in the flagship stereo power amplifier, then in the L-507Z, L-509Z, C-10X and L-505Z.Luxman M-10x Stereo Amplifier
  15. 2025 Centennial The E-07 phono stage, Black Edition CENTENNIAL models, the D-03R, and the L-100 and D-100 CENTENNIAL on LIFES 1.1. Rhythm Audio becomes the North American distributor in February; Luxman enters the Hi-Fi Hall of Fame in May.
  16. 2026 Component of the Year Stereophile names the L-100 CENTENNIAL Joint Amplification Component of the Year and puts it on its October cover. The D-100 CENTENNIAL ships worldwide in April and the B-100 CENTENNIAL mono amplifier in September.Luxman D-100 SACD/DAC
Read the Luxman story
Luxman L-509Z integrated amplifier, front view

Luxman began in June 1925 as the radio-equipment department of Kinsuido, a painting and picture-frame dealer in Osaka, in the year radio broadcasting began in Japan. T. Hayakawa and his brother K. Yoshikawa incorporated the business as Lux Corporation; by the company's own account Kinsuido was the first in Japan to display and sell radio receivers in a store, and its radio manual, the first Japanese radio guidebook, ran to fourteen editions. The first products followed in 1928, the LUX-1730 and LUX-735 hi-fi radios sold with a magnetic-horn speaker, and in 1931 a magnetic pickup for the LUX-1730 electric phonograph. Through the 1930s the firm built its reputation on the parts it made itself, transformers and switches, and in 1952 it developed the OY-type output transformers that collectors still seek out and that Luxman's tube amplifiers carry in descendant form today.

The MA-7A of 1958, a mono vacuum-tube power amplifier with a patented NFB cross-over circuit, was Luxman's first fully assembled post-war hi-fi amplifier. The SQ-5A integrated of 1961, with its center-mounted level meter and Luxman's own tone-control circuit, was a hit, and the company dates its unbroken run of tube amplifiers from it. The SQ-65 of 1962 carried a motional-feedback patent, and the PZ-11 of the same year was Japan's first germanium-transistor phono equalizer. The SQ-38 of 1964 became a fixture of Japanese jazz cafés and began a series that reached its twelfth generation in the LX-380. The MQ-36 of 1966, an output-transformer-less tube amplifier, stayed in production until 1978; the SQ-505 and SQ-507 of 1968 preceded the 500 series; and the MQ-60 power amplifier of 1969 and CL-35 preamplifier of 1970 are the models the current MQ-88uC and CL-38uC are built to honor. By The Absolute Sound's account Luxman was the only major Japanese manufacturer still producing tube amplifiers through the 1970s and 1980s.

LUX Kit, a do-it-yourself brand, sold about seventy products between 1971 and 1980. For the fiftieth anniversary in 1975 Luxman introduced the 300-watt M-6000 stereo amplifier, the C-1000 preamplifier and the T-110 tuner; the M-3000, M-4000 and M-6000 were designed by Tim de Paravicini, whom Luxman employed for amplifier design. The Laboratory Reference Series of 1977 included a DC amplifier, and the PD-300 turntable of 1980 held the record down with a vacuum, a first. Atsushi Miura, who had married the eldest daughter of co-founder Yoshikawa and joined the company in 1956, was running it by the early 1980s. In 1984 Alpine Electronics acquired the Luxman brand; Miura and designer Masami Ishiguro founded A&M Limited in 1986, creating Air Tight. Under Alpine the products were co-badged Alpine/Luxman and sold through mass retailers such as Costco in the US; Stereophile later wrote that high-end dealers dropped the line because of the confusion, and Hi-Fi News that the fit was never an easy one. The engineering went on: the Fluency DA-07 converter and DP-07 transport of 1987, built on a University of Tsukuba professor's function-complementation theory, and the top-loading D-500X CD player of 1990 with a Philips CDM-3 mechanism.

Alpine sold the brand in 1994. The ownership that followed is not well documented, and the present Luxman Corporation was formed from the old Lux Corporation around 2000; what the company built in those years is clearer. The SQ-38s marked the seventieth anniversary in 1995. The C-10 preamplifier and B-10 power amplifier of 1996 remained the flagships for about ten years, and the C-10's Ultimate Attenuator, a fixed-resistor volume control, is the ancestor of LECUA. In 1999 the CM-2100 car amplifier became the first product with ODNF, the feedback circuit that fed back only the distortion. The DU-10 universal SACD player arrived in 2001, and the CL-88 and MQ-88 of 2004 were the first tube separates in eleven years. For the eightieth anniversary the B-1000f monoblocks of 2005, more than thirteen years in development, and the C-1000f control amplifier of 2006, at ¥2,100,000, introduced LECUA1000 and ODNF 2.4. In 2007 Philip O'Hanlon's On a Higher Note brought Luxman back to the United States after roughly two decades away, with the C-1000f at $30,000 and the B-1000f at $48,000 each; what struck O'Hanlon was that the technology really did trickle down to more realistically priced models.

In 2009 Luxman became part of the International Audio Group, which kept it separate from its British brands, Quad and Wharfedale among them, and left design and manufacturing in Kanagawa. The SQ-38u, eleventh of its line, launched the same year. The PD-171 of 2011 revived turntable development 28 years after the PD-350; the P-700u headphone amplifier followed in 2012, and the C-900u and M-900u of 2013, at ¥1,155,000 each, brought ODNF 4.0 and New LECUA1000. The MQ-300 of 2015, with two Japanese-made 300B tubes, marked the ninetieth anniversary. The X generation renewed the integrateds, the L-505uXII and L-507uXII in November 2017 and the L-509X in January 2018, and the CL-38uC and MQ-88uC tube separates of April 2018 reproduced the OY15 output transformers in their original shape. The PD-151 turntable arrived in February 2019 and the CL-1000 tube preamplifier in January 2020. In July 2020 the D-10X gave the world premiere of ROHM's MUS-IC BD34301EKV converter, run as a pair in dual mono, and the same year the L-595A LIMITED reissued the 1990s L-570 Class A design in 300 units each for Japan and overseas.

LIFES, the successor to ODNF, shipped first in the M-10X power amplifier, announced in the US in January 2022 at $19,995, then in the L-507Z of August 2022, the L-509Z that December, and the C-10X of November 2023, the first new flagship preamplifier in ten years. The D-07X SACD player arrived in February 2023 and the PD-191A turntable, with the SAEC-developed LTA-710 arm, reached the US that April; the NT-07 network transport and L-505Z followed in 2024. The centennial year of 2025 brought the E-07 phono stage, Black Edition CENTENNIAL versions of four models, the D-03R, and the L-100 and D-100 CENTENNIAL, the first pure Class A integrated and the first disc player built on LIFES 1.1. In February 2025 Rhythm Audio of Upland, California took over distribution for the United States and Canada, and in May Luxman was inducted into the Hi-Fi Hall of Fame. The B-100 CENTENNIAL mono amplifier followed in September 2026, and in October Stereophile put the L-100 on its cover and named it Joint Amplification Component of the Year. Luxman is headquartered and still manufactures in Yokohama under president Tatsuya Sueyoshi, and each L-100 is built by hand by a team of four.

The complete Luxman story and technology library

Luxman at Pearl Audio

Pearl Audio is an authorized Luxman dealer in Portland. We carry the full line, from the L-505Z, L-507Z, L-509Z and L-100 CENTENNIAL integrateds and the C-10X and M-10X separates to the PD-151 Mk II and PD-191A turntables, the E-250 and E-07 phono stages, the D-03R, D-07X and D-100 CENTENNIAL players and the NT-07 network transport. We match Luxman amplification to loudspeakers in our rooms and yours, set up the turntables and arms, fit and align cartridges, and configure the D-series players and NT-07 as a system. Delivery and in-home setup are part of how we sell Luxman, and service runs through Rhythm Audio, Luxman's distributor for the United States and Canada.

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  2. 02

    Delivery and installation

    We deliver and install throughout the Portland area, taking care of placement, connections, ventilation and system configuration ourselves.

  3. 03

    Support for as long as you own it

    We support everything we sell for as long as you own it, whether the answer comes by phone, in your home, or through factory service.

  4. 04

    A path for what comes next

    Trade-in assistance and qualifying 100% Trade-Up options give you flexibility when your listening priorities or your system change.

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