Meze Liric Closed-back Headphone: First Impressions
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2021
- Meze is back with an all new set of cans, so it seems only fair that we give our Meze superfan Daniel the first listen. But what does he think?
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Meze Liric The Portable Isodynamic Hybrid Array Headphone
Manufacturer Details:
We wanted it to express the very thing that makes us Meze Audio - cutting-edge technology embodied into an artful, almost sculptural frame. While different than anything we’ve done before, LIRIC preserves the same design language characteristic to us, with new additions in terms of materials and ergonomic approach.
Designed for high-fidelity listening on the go, LIRIC delivers high build quality and excellent comfort, and a life-like, immersive listening experience.
MEZE X RINARO COLLABORATION
Time flies when you're having fun! Together with Rinaro Isodynamics, we are adding a third model in our collaborative lineup. LIRIC raised a true challenge for both companies: how can we create a planar closed-back headphone that will change all standards in the audiophile world. Fusing Meze Audio's industrial design capabilities with Rinaro's technological development, LIRIC brings a new flavor for all the active audiophiles that like to take their music on the go.
Meze Audio
For the past 10 years, Meze Audio has been developing audiophile headphones and earphones renowned for their timeless design, pure comfort and engaging, vivid sound. From looks to technology, Meze Audio products are designed to surpass all short-living trends and become heirlooms, rather than just headphones. Today, founder Antonio Meze and his skilled team design and develop their products in Baia Mare, Romania, in the spirit of their original ‘no-compromise’ vision.
Rinaro Isodynamics
Rinaro originated in the USSR (today’s Ukraine) during the Cold War, as part of a state-funded acoustic technology research program. With government backing and access to advanced testing facilities, the team was able to focus all of its efforts on planar magnetics. A field they have continued to innovate in for the last 30 years, since the collapse of the USSR. In the last decade, Rinaro have expanded their capabilities and capacity with the development of state-of-the-art R&D and manufacturing facilities in Ukraine and Poland. The new facilities have been a driving force in the creation of the revolutionary Isodynamic Hybrid Array technology found in Meze Audio EMPYREAN, ELITE and LIRIC headphones.
AWARD-WINNING TECHNOLOGY IN A PORTABLE FRAME
LIRIC features the state-of-the-art technology developed by Rinaro, re-engineered for day-to-day use. The MZ4 Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver was scaled down and tuned to deliver an audio experience in-line with it's larger counterparts found in Empyrean and Elite.
Combined with the closed-back design, it helps preserve the original clarity and emotion of your favorite music through enhanced sound and minimized external noise. Each driver is entirely hand assembled and tested in Rinaro’s industrial facility in Ukraine.
Engineered With Care:
MZ4 ISODYNAMIC HYBRID ARRAY DRIVER
LIRIC is the first closed-back headphone to be powered by Rinaro’s Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver. Created exclusively for Meze Audio, the MZ4 driver offers the same dual shaped voice coil array seen in the Meze Empyrean. Over 30 years of R&D have gone into developing this technology, resulting in one of the lightest and most advanced planar magnetic drivers on the market. A new innovation to the MZ4 driver developed in-house by Rinaro is the Phase-X™ system, which improves ambience and spatial sound imaging, often found to be a problem in closed back headphone designs.
ULTRA LOW DISTORTION
Total harmonic distortion (THD) measures under 0.15% in the whole frequency range.
SCALED FLAGSHIP ISODYNAMIC HYBRID ARRAY TECHNOLOGY
One of the most sophisticated and advanced planar magnetic technologies in the world has been scaled down for portable use.
Patented in US, EU, China and other countries.
ADVANTAGES OF A DUAL DRIVEN SYSTEM
The MZ4 driver combines individual switchback and spiral shaped voice coils within the same diaphragm, allowing sound to be targeted with more accuracy around the natural form of the ear, for a more selective acoustic performance.
Using this combination allows the headphone to achieve an increased exposure of direct sound wave frequencies over the 10kHz range, as well as improved imaging and localization, by decreasing the impact of short-wave time delays caused by diffused field reflections.
SWITCHBACK COIL
The switchback coil is more efficient at reproducing lower frequencies and is positioned in the upper part of the driver.
Great review,! These sound great on the go with balanced 4.4 cable and A&K HB1
I LOVED YOUR VIDEO on this. Are you going to do a follow up with more dac amp options? Please do. I’m looking at picking a pair of these up, half the reason is because they don’t need an expensive dac amp and I’m hoping to get away with a dragonfly red. Please tell me how they sound with the red. Thanks again for a great video and I love your leather hat.
so you think they dont need power than you never gonna knew how they really sound its kind of waste
How do they sound in balance mode on es100 studio Bluetooth dac?
I am planning to pair these on Fiio M17 which is desktop grade portable player. I wanna hear if its really worth it to spend CAD $2,600 on these. Currently i am pairing AUDEZE LCD CLOSED on M17. Any input is highly appreciated. Tahnks.
We aren't a Fiio or Audeze dealer so it's not a comparison we can currently make, unfortunately.
Did you buy these?
My guess those headphones should improve in sound quality after they get fully burned in.
More than likely, we have put some more hours into them since this was recorded and they are sweetening up a bit with time.
How are they with electronic music, doom gaze or hip hop with deep bass? Do they extend low and have good bass impact? I’m not a typical audiophile that listens to classical and jazz elevator music. Thanks !
@@gordonm6128 With the right source they sound head poundingly beefy.
@@living_entertainment ok excellent. So they’re not thin on bass then? I don’t want something “tinny” sounding and thin.
What amp and portable dac are you suggesting to use with these ?
@@gordonm6128 For desktop useage we are still doing tests, I want to try Audiolab, Earman and Pro-Ject first and foremost. So far in terms of portables the Earman Sparrow has been king, especially with the high end balanced cables from the Meze 99 Classics, super thick bass but without drowning out detail in the mix. The Chord Mojo sounds the best but I know these are incredibly hard to get a hold of currently.