Meze 99 Classics Walnut Silver Headphones (Silver & Black)

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That is, you can’t help but be mentally affected by the bass so you may think the mids are being bloomed by the bass but that’s not really the case.

Though I have utilized this movement often, as of late, I could not help going back to it, as it clearly demonstrates so many things—extension, transparency, transient speed, positioning, timbre, and texture. If you’re looking for parametric filters, you’re going to have a rough time boosting the underemphasis between 1-3kHz, as it will require some hefty gain close to the cuts you’ll be making. Thankfully the reception to the Meze IEM review was much warmer, and for a large part, people agreed on my position. Due to its low impedance and high sensitivity, you do not need an amplifier to properly power the Meze 99 Classics. It should be mentioned that the music above is rendered by the quite wonderful alliance of Meze’s 99 Classics and AudioQuest’s DragonFly Cobalt.We are not archiving the old review, so if there’s something on this page you’re looking for: it may be gone to the sands of time.

Meze Audio is not the household name of some of our headphone brands, but these 99 Classics should be. Home use is where they will be in their element, and I think, given the physical design, this is what Meze was going for anyway. I must point out that any touch or movement in the area past the splitter transmits some microphonics into the earcup.

Having heard the previous discussion about how the pads affect the sound quality Listening to the Meze 99 Classics is not a passive experience as they will engage heart and soul and feet and fingers to tap, and one’s head to bop. All the wood that is used in the headphones is strictly harvested from sources with a certificate of origin - mature trees that have reached the end of their life cycle. The Y split and jack metal covers are in a matching silver accent to the rest of the headphones (gold if you bought the gold edition) with the logo on the front.