Meze Elite Headphone
$4000
Meze headphones hail from Romania. Its products are the result of a unique design collaboration between Meze and Rinaro Isodynamics. During the last 30 years, Rinaro has focused all its design efforts on perfecting planar-magnetic transducers. The Rinaro Parus planar diaphragm achieves an extremely low mass by utilizing an ultra-thin, biaxially oriented, semi-crystalline film. This film is produced through a special process that involves stretching it in transverse directions at high temperatures. Instead of one unified voice coil the Elite uses a dual-driver system. The switchback coil, located in the upper section of the planar diaphragm, is more efficient on lower frequencies. While the spiral coil, located in the lower section, is more efficient on middle and upper frequencies. Meze has also developed a unique headband design that originated on its Empyrean headphones to increase the Elite’s wearability. Instead of the standard U-shaped curve to the leather lower part of the headband, the Elite’s is almost W-shaped, which spreads the headphones weight over a larger portion of your head, making them more comfortable. The Elite is an open-back design whose sonic attributes reflect that. It produces a huge soundstage that is comparable to other reference headphones with a similar backless design, such as the Warwick Sonoma system. The Meze Elite is, in every way, a reference-quality headphone that earns its flagship status and justifies its price. The Meze Elite is the kind of headphone that quickly and conclusively elevates listening to the point that after some time spent with it, it’s hard to go back to headphones that are merely extremely good.
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