- Meze Audio reveals new open-back headphones in a premium finish
- The producer promises ‘breakthrough’ in plane magnetic drivers
- ‘Luxurious’ materials suitable at a price of £ 1,850 (about AU $ 3,100) Price
Meze Audio, a Romanian headphone manufacturer behind some of the best flat magnetic headphones available today, claims its new poet model marks a breakthrough for high-end sound technology.
These headphones are designed with aesthetes and audiophiles in mind with an open building and wired connection to ensure that you get high quality sound, a reliable connection and a good size soundstage to appreciate the resonance of the poet’s flat magnetic driver. Like the “audible feelings” that Meze confesses to his latest cans.
But the poet’s headphones are also carefully designed aesthetic objects with a “complicated steel grill, magnesium chassis and soft suede leather support” along with braided 3.5 mm copper cabling to connect to a source unit.
Plane magnetic drivers have been around for many years now and offering an alternative to the dynamic driver design used in the vast majority of the best headphones.
Plane headphones essentially implement a set of magnets on each side of a vibrating ultra-thin membrane to emit sound, requiring more power and larger, heavier hardware than standard drivers-achieved Planar’s unique magnetic resonance and improved bass response. The poet’s headphones boast a frequency response of 4Hz-96kHz, which very much expands the usual 20Hz-20kHz interval in both directions.
However, Meze Audio claims to have advanced technology further with the help of electro -acoustic engineers at Rinaro Isodynamics in Ukraine.
The life of a poet
A press release says “The poet incorporates more breakthrough features that separate it in the world of advanced headphones. These include a hybrid magnetArray designed to create a uniform, powerful magnetic field across the membrane as well as a parus membrane with an incredibly low weight (only 0.06 g) and expansively active area for pristine sound reproduction. The result is Ultra-low distortion (<0.05%) and ultra-high solution sound that captures any shade from the deepest underbas to the highest treble frequencies. "
Meze adds that “each driver is hand -mounted and tested at Rinaro’s advanced system in Ukraine, ensuring unmatched quality and performance.”
Meze Audio has certainly impressed us before: In our five-star review of the Meze Audio 105 AER headphones we called them “Open-backed Wired Over-Ear headphones that easily draw all rivals on the level”.
At 350 g, the poet’s headphones are still heavy general-the dynamic driver Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones come in on only 250 g-but they are still lighter than the recently announced FIIIO FT7 Planar headphones, so it’s all relative. The luxurious price tag can keep it out of bounds for many shoppers, but for everyone after a real premium listening experience, Meze Audio’s lineup is increasingly looking as one of the best options out there.
The poet’s headphones are now available for £ 1,850 / $ 2,000 (around AU $ 3,100).
