Leszy in-ear monitor with a wooden faceplate in dark forest green aluminium

Born from polish soil

Universal in-ear monitor. Handcrafted in Poznań, Poland.

1 295 EUR5 490 PLN1 490 USD

Handcrafted in Poznań

Leszy is a universal in-ear monitor handcrafted in Poznań, Poland. It has five drivers per side, aluminium shells anodised in dark forest green, and a faceplate with an inlay of natural Polish wood from trees that grow about 30 km from our workshop.

The Legend

In old Slavic tales, every forest had its guardian. The Polish called him Leszy.

He watched over the trees and the creatures that lived among them. Those who entered with respect could pass safely beneath his branches. Those who did not might hear a familiar voice calling from somewhere deeper in the woods, and discover that the path home had disappeared.

These stories have travelled through generations, but for us, the forest has never felt distant. It begins just beyond Poznań, not far from our workshop.

The wood shaped into every Leszy faceplate comes from those same forests: no two pieces identical, each carrying its own grain, its own character and a fragment of the place it came from.

Leszy is our way of sharing that story. Designed and handcrafted in Poland, every pair carries something of our landscape, our folklore and the quiet, untamed nature that shaped us. Our piece of home, made to travel with those who listen.

Sound

The blur clears, and every piece of the mix steps into its own place.

Leszy took twelve months of prototyping, and its tuning is rooted in that same forest. Stand still among the trees and the noise fades, but what you hear is not silence. You begin to locate things instead: a bird to your left, a creaking branch behind, whispering wind above. Good IEMs does the same to a recording.

Leszy follows the Craft Ears house sound, with more character. Compared with the rest of our line it is more dynamic, lively and engaging, and it has more energy.

A pair of Leszy in-ear monitors on a dark background

Drivers and acoustics

Five drivers per side. Four-way passive crossover.

Five drivers per side work through a four-way passive crossover on a PCB: a 9.2 mm LSR dynamic driver for the bass, three balanced armatures covering the low mids, mids and high mids, and a 6 mm round planar magnetic driver, made for Craft Ears, for the treble and air.

Leszy plugged into a digital audio player with the copper cable

SES 4.0™

SES 4.0™ is our acoustic system for the upper part of the spectrum. The planar driver works into a horn, and alongside it sit three resonators, a mix of quarter-wave and Helmholtz types, which shape the upper midrange and the high frequencies.

True Load Evo™

True Load Evo™ gives Leszy an impedance curve that is close to flat, but deliberately not entirely flat. It was designed this way, so that the IEMs respond predictably to changes of cable and source.

Build

Aluminium, Polish wood, bronze and copper.

Leszy plugged into a digital audio player with the copper cable

Shell

The shells are aluminium, machined on advanced 5-axis CNC machines, then anodised in dark forest green colour with a satin-finished surface. Inside, precisely designed inserts printed on state-of-the-art 3D printers integrate the drivers, the acoustic chambers, sound tubes of variable length and diameter, and the resonators.

Leszy faceplate with natural Polish wood inlay and gold Craft Ears logo

Faceplate

The faceplate is metal, machined with a precise high-tech pattern, and joins the shell seamlessly. Set into it is an inlay of natural Polish wood from trees that grow about 30 km from our workshop in Poznań, Poland, where every pair is handcrafted. The Craft Ears logo on the wood is gold.

A pair of Leszy shells with their bronze nozzles

Nozzle

The nozzles are made from a special bronze alloy that is more resistant to patina and oxidation than ordinary bronze, so they keep their look for a long time.

Leszy with its 8-core OCC cable in natural copper colour

Cable

The cable is 8-core OCC in its natural copper colour, with a 4.4 mm balanced plug and 0.78 mm 2-pin connectors.

Leszy

1295 EUR5490 PLN1490 USD

incl. VAT

Everything in the Leszy box: the product box, leather case, eartip box, cable and wooden warranty card

In the box

The packaging carries the same story as the pair inside: forest green, wood, brown leather and artwork drawn from the legend.

  1. 01Leszy in-ear monitors
  2. 024.4 mm balanced 8-core OCC cable, 0.78 mm 2-pin
  3. 03Elegant magnetic product box
  4. 04Round brown leather case with an embossed Craft Ears logo
  5. 05Craft Ears custom-designed magnetic eartip box, manufactured in-house. It comes with silicone tips (S/M/L) and bi-flange tips (S/M/L). It has room for three more pairs, so your favourite eartips can live in it too
  6. 06Wooden warranty card with serial number and build date
  7. 07A letter and box sleeve illustrated by a local artist with artwork based on the legend of Leszy. On the back of the letter, a few words from Jed, the founder

Specifications

Type
Universal in-ear monitor
Drivers
5 per side: 1× 9.2 mm LSR dynamic, 3× balanced armature, 1× 6 mm proprietary planar magnetic
Crossover
4-way
Acoustic system
SES 4.0™
Impedance design
True Load Evo™
Frequency response
20 Hz to 35 kHz
Impedance
11 Ω @ 1 kHz
Shell
Aluminium, 5-axis CNC machined, anodised dark forest green, satin finish
Faceplate
Aluminium with natural Polish wood inlay, gold Craft Ears logo
Nozzle
Oxidation-resistant bronze alloy
Cable
8-core OCC, 4.4 mm balanced, 0.78 mm 2-pin
Warranty
2 years
Suggested retail price
1295 EUR incl. VAT · 5490 PLN incl. VAT · 1490 USD incl. VAT
Handcrafted in
Poznań, Poland
Leszy resting on its round brown leather case with an embossed Craft Ears logo

Our piece of home, made to travel with those who listen.

1295 EUR5490 PLN1490 USD

incl. VAT

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