![]() I don't think they'll deaden airplane noise, but they did a good job on the subway. Through long listening sessions at work or zoning out at home, the Mezes hugged my head gently, providing adequate isolation from the outside world. I did feel occasional pressure or tightening on the upper parts of my pinnae, but never found the 99 Classics uncomfortable. The 7/8"-thick earpads fit cozily against my rather large noggin. These are beautiful headphones, and their smooth, polished walnut earcups are lovely to touch. They're solidly assembled from a combination of walnut wood (earcups), cast zinc alloy (attaching braces), stamped manganese spring steel (frame and self-adjusting headband), and memory foam and synthetic leather (earpads and the covering for the above-mentioned headband). ![]() They're subtly stylishunlike some of the robotic, gauche, trendy headphones I've seen on hipster heads here in New York. The 99 Classics are closed-back, circumaural (ie, over-ear) headphones that weigh 9.2oz sans cables. All plugs and cables can be kept in a small, resealable, faux-velvet pouch (provided). Also included are 3.5mm-to-¼" and dual 3.5mm airplane adapters. At the headphone ends of these cables are dual 3.5mm gold-plated TS plugsthese, rather than the earcups themselves, are marked L and Rwith a single 3.5mm TRRS plug at the amplifier ends. Meze Audio's 99 Classics, which are in the middle of the company's headphone line, arrived in a zippered hard-shell case that also contained two lightweight, detachable, Kevlar-sheathed cables: one 4' long with a one-button remote control for portable use, and a 9' cable for home use. The Zhuhai factory, with a workforce 1000 strong, also makes headphones for other audiophile brands Meze's headquarters, in Baia Mare, Romania, has a staff of 15. Vontea adds that Meze, who has experience designing products for a number of different industries, wanted to create "an object to pour his passion for music in, an object that is full of personality and life and that has its own story." Meze Classic headphones are designed and engineered in Romania and manufactured and assembled (including drivers) to Meze's specifications in Zhuhai, China. Meze Audio didn't enter the headphone business until 2009, when founder and designer Antonio Meze "was searching for a pair of headphones that he could connect to in the same way that he felt connected to his Fender Stratocaster guitar"this according to Raluca Vontea, who works as the company's brand manager. And while many of today's headphone faithful enjoy their cans on the go, others still prefer listening at home, just as in those golden days. ![]() As an aspiring musician and hash-fueled music lover in the late 1970s, listening to Jethro Tull and Joni Mitchell through Koss's original, sickly green Pro4A headphones, or Sennheiser's spongy-yellow HD 424s, was like journeying to Valhalla without leaving my smoky listening den. I remember the first headphone resurgence. So, given my big (literally and figuratively) ears and relative newbie status as a headphone listener, I'm the perfect candidate for the Meze Audio 99 Classics and their affordable price of $309. I prefer to experience recorded music at full scale and full dynamic range, with lifelike aural images dancing before me in my gritty Manhattan crib. (I prefer the isolation from outside sounds provided by closed-back 'phones.) But from the moments I sawand then heardMeze Audio's 99 Classics, with their graceful style, balanced sound, and natural wood-grained glory, they had me. And I admit that I've lusted after the heavenly sounding, medieval-looking Abyss AB-1266 Phi headphones, and considered the MrSpeakers Aeon closed-back headphones. Stax SR-207 EP507 Leather Pads SerNum SB22217īeyerdynamic Custom One Pro switch position 1, 2, 3, 4īeyerdynamic DT 48 E 120 ohm source impedance.I have on hand a number of pairs of headphones. Updated to fix links and add sheets: July 11, 2017Ĭlicking on a link below will allow you to download one datasheet at a time. Tyl Hertsens created a large database of over a thousand headphone and amplifier measurements while writing for, where these files originally appeared.Įxplanations about what the measurements mean can be found here.Ī description of the equipment and how the measurements are taken can be found here.Īll current measurements can be downloaded in a single PDF book from 2016 here.
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