Comment on the design of the Lewitt Connect 6.
ASKED BY · Paul Valhus · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 25 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:16:12
Alex notes the Connect 6 has an unusual angular design reminiscent of the 2001 Space Odyssey monolith or a Transformer, and speculates Lewitt wanted to differentiate themselves in a crowded audio interface market.
Bill interviewed Brian Fisher of Lewitt and explains the LW6 headphones are designed for cord-free studio work at around $600, aiming to balance fidelity and latency while reducing cable annoyances.
Courtney clarifies the question may have been about the LW6 headphones instead, and discusses those as low-latency wireless headphones with 5.8ms latency and a custom transmitter, though noting he wouldn't use wireless in professional situations due to battery reliability concerns.
A panelist jokes that the Connect 6 design discourages placing coffee on top of it—intentional reverse ergonomics.
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15:55I couldn't do cables the whole way. And that actually held up pretty well the whole time. But did the virtual plant tour mobile. And then when I wanted to cut to a wide, I had another camera in the building over NDI that I was able to cut to. And it did a really nice job. Next question. All right. This is from Paul Valhus in Austin, Texas.
16:15Comment on the design of the Lewitt Connect 6. You're a Lewitt guy, Alex Knight. What do you think? We've talked about this. I've kind of made jokes about the design before. I don't know what they were going for. I'm going to show it to you here. So this is the Kinect 6. I look at this, and it looks like something from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
16:38It could be the black monolith. Some people have joked, oh, it looks like a transformer. It's a very strange design. I've never seen this before on an interface. I suspect they didn't have – I mean, look, they could have just made a rectangular box. I guess they just got bored and they figured well, you know, we make microphones. We've never made an audio interface
17:00There's a bazillion manufacturers that make these types of products. Let's let's try to do something a little bit different Be good to actually ask this to the Luit people I know we had someone on from Luit last week to talk about the new their new wireless studio headphones This would have been a good question to send to their design team So I don't know what they were going for but it's a it's different. I'll give them that
17:23Courtney Gooden. Yeah, and because of that, I thought he didn't say, he just says Lewitt 6. And they make a lot of products that have 6, like the headphones that we had on with Bill's show from Lewitt, the LW6. So was he meaning the LW6 or was the L-Connect 6? So if you're talking about the LW6, which are the new wireless headphones, their design, you know, first of all, I'll comment on that because we don't know what he was looking for.
17:52But the LW6, I don't know if I would use wireless. These are low latency headphones, supposedly around 5.8 milliseconds in their custom transmitter. They have this little puck that you connect to that you can plug analog audio into or plug it in USB-C into a computer interface. And it transmits wirelessly to the headphones. The headphones are battery powered and have their own DSP in them.
18:19I have not listened to these. I don't think I would ever use wireless headphones in any professional situation because you don't know the state of the charge. And you may have left them plugged in overnight, but somebody came in and turned off power to the studio overnight, and you thought they were charging for 12 hours, but hey, they only got 20 minutes charge.
18:43So this is why I wouldn't use wireless. They do have the ability to plug them in and use the USB wired connection, which if you like the sound of them, these are like $600, I think. They're kind of pricey for headphones when you can get a good pair of Sony VR6s or the standard. Yeah, not anymore. I have a pair right here for under $100.
19:07I don't know if I would go with something like a wireless where there's any delay at all and you have to depend on Bluetooth quality for the transmission. Bill? So I was lucky enough on the Tuesday Focus this week to chat with Brian Fisher of Lewitt about these headphones that we were just talking about. Yes, they're not incredibly inexpensive. It's $600 or so.
19:32We don't know what the street price is going to be. At least I didn't ask Brian about that. I probably should have. I think that's a convenience thing. They're designed for somebody working in a studio who wants to be cord-free. And there are some circumstances. I remember how many times I had to take my headphones off because even the curly cords on them wouldn't reach to the thing that I needed on the back wall.
19:53And it's just – if you want to get rid of those kind of annoyances, I think this and the direction they're going in, which is to try to keep fidelity and latency both in as green a green zone as they possibly can with today's technology, is a worthy endeavor for the people who rely on these every day. I haven't heard them either and that's always going to be your final determinant.
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