What is the history of Lewitt and how did the idea for these come about?
ASKED BY · Guy Cochran · SEATTLE, WASHINGTON · 23 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:19:56
Lewitt was founded in Vienna, Austria around 2009 by Roman, formerly of AKG, focusing on microphone innovation before expanding into other audio product categories like interfaces and headphones.
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19:52What is the history of Lewitt and how did the idea for these come about? Ah, we always like origin stories and some of us have heard of Lewitt for quite a while, but tell us a little bit about the company too. Yeah, so it's based in Vienna, Austria. And it was founded by our CEO Roman. And I think about 2009, it was he originally worked at AKG for a while. And then eventually, when he started Lewitt, his goal and intention was really to focus on innovation, just with the idea that not everything that can be done with microphones has been done, that there's a lot of interesting technology out there that could be
20:31implemented in great ways for microphones. And so that was the initial focus was specifically microphones like the 440 that I'm talking into here. It's kind of one of our most popular models, but we have really interesting concepts for microphones like the Lewitt Ray that came out a couple of years ago that has an IR sensor that can detect how far you are away and adjust its
20:57tone and level accordingly to make sure that you sound consistent. So great for, you know, podcasting and live streaming and all that kind of stuff. And then other microphones like the high-end LCT1040, which has both a FET circuit and a tube circuit and four different voicings for the tube circuit. So you can really kind of blend them and tailor the sound exactly to what
21:22you want to hear. So, Lua, it's always been about trying to figure out how to solve kind of new problems and be able to just create more unique creative options for artists. And so, I think the same thing has applied to other product categories that we've moved into. We've tried to find other ways to bring solutions to musicians that can solve interesting
21:46and unique problems. So, you know, our audio interface is really striving to make them very streaming friendly, very user friendly. And, you know, with the headphones trying to make the workflow really seamless with the wireless technology and really seeing that there was wireless technology that wasn't really being used to its full extent in this application. And so, yeah, Lewitt's always kind of had that spirit of trying to
22:13trying to do what that hasn't been done completely and kind of push things forward a little bit further cool overview of the company talk a little bit about yourself how did you get involved with luit and what was your background yeah so i was brought on to the team kind of right as they were opening up the u.s office so um i am a musician i am a mixing engineer as well i have uh i do a lot
22:38of kind of freelance production and mixing work for other independent musicians and so huge passion of mine. I have worked in the past for iZotope. I've done a lot of educational content as well. And so I was brought on to the team as they were trying to really kind of build out their presence in the US more, helping manage the retail accounts here, and then also kind of things on the channel
23:04marketing side, helping with content as well. So yeah, that's what I've done the last, I think it's It's been about four years now since Lewitt Inc. was established here in the U.S. And it's just right now, yeah, me and one other colleague that are kind of running the show here. I got to know, what's your instrument of choice and what's your genre of choice?
23:27If you were going to go out and play next weekend, what would we see and hear you doing? Yeah, I mean, I'm a guitar player. That's, you know, my first, you know, instrument that I grew to love and learn to play. I can kind of play keys. I sing as well. I can kind of mess around with some percussion stuff. But, yeah, really guitar is where it's at for me.
23:49And, yeah, in terms of music styles, I love, like, shoegaze, dream pop. The more reverb, the better. That's kind of my style. All right. We'll get you a plate reverb somewhere in the back of your house and let you play forever. Nice. All right, let's get to our next question. Next one in is from Roscoe Jones in Madison, Indiana. Roscoe asks, are there any head-related transfer function techniques built into your headphones?