Leszypronounced LEH·shihSlavic folklore
Born from Polish soil
Universal In-Ear Monitor. Handcrafted in Poznań, Poland.
1 295 EUR1 490 USD5 490 PLN
A legend, handcrafted
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 whole product, down to the box it comes in, is built around one story.
5drivers per side, four-way crossover- 12months of prototyping
- 3precisely tuned resonators
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
Tuned for the joy of listening, with every detail in place.
Stand still in a forest 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. An honest recording works the same way. You stop hearing a wall of sound and start hearing musicians in a room, each exactly where they stood.
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.
BASSFull and pronounced- MIDRANGENatural and open
- TREBLEDetailed and precise without turning bright
Drivers and acoustics
Five drivers per side.
They work through a four-way passive crossover: a 9.2 mm LSR dynamic driver for the bass, three balanced armatures covering the low mids, mids and high mids, and a proprietary 6 mm round planar magnetic driver, made to Craft Ears design, for the treble and air.
- Bass1× 9.2 mm LSR dynamic
- Midrange3× balanced armature
- Treble1× 6 mm proprietary round planar magnetic
SES 4.0™
SES 4.0™ (Space Expanse System 4.0) is our complex acoustic design for the upper part of the frequency range. The planar driver works into a custom-shaped 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.
Shell
The shells are machined from aluminium 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.
Faceplate
The faceplate is machined with a precise high-tech pattern and joins the shell seamlessly. Set into it is an inlay of natural Polish wood.
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.
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.
1 295 EUR1 490 USD5 490 PLNincl. VAT
Frequency response
Leszy, measured.
Specifications
- Type
- Universal In-Ear Monitor
- Drivers
- 1× 9.2 mm LSR dynamic, 3× balanced armature, 1× 6 mm proprietary round 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
- Handcrafted in
- Poznań, Poland
In the box
The packaging carries the same story as the pair inside: forest green, wood, brown leather and artwork drawn from the legend.
- 01Leszy in-ear monitors
- 024.4 mm balanced 8-core OCC cable, 0.78 mm 2-pin
- 03Elegant magnetic product box
- 04Round brown leather case with an embossed Craft Ears logo
- 05Craft Ears custom-designed magnetic eartip box, with silicone and bi-flange tips (S/M/L) and room for three more pairs
- 06Wooden warranty card with serial number and build date
- 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
Our piece of home, made to travel with those who listen.
1 295 EUR1 490 USD5 490 PLNincl. VAT
