Meze 99 Classics Walnut Gold Headphones (Gold & Black)

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Anyway, for a U shape headphone, I really find the vocal not recessed, just slightly veiled or coloured in lower mids by bass wich can even be benificial for some song like ‘’Comet Out your House’’ from Lali Puna that have synth bass and heavy electro kick well layered and a timbre registre of the signer that pair perfectly with Neo bassy soundsignature. I found the headband tension to be just slightly higher than I would prefer though the large surface area of the band evenly distributes pressure and the elastic is sure to loosen up slightly over time.

Bass of MEZE is warmer but have more body and a wider presence, lower region is more accentuated than the more punchy energic presentation of PRO82, wich feel faster than Meze but dryier too. This outstanding comfort begins with those swivelling earcups and absolutely fantastic earpads that are roomy even for those with large ears such as myself and stuffed with extremely plush memory foam.As the track gets busier the excessive mid bass becomes a biggest con where they start to bleed into the mids. The headband mechanism is unorthodox but finds great usability in simplicity while the super plush earpads and low COG enable both long-term comfort and stability when out and about. The accessories are simple enough; there is, after all, not much you can do with a set of headphones. They have comfortable headphones and plenty of room inside to have no contact points with medium-sized ears. Put them on, sit back, and enjoy your favourite sound of plucked strings, upbeat grooves or thumping beats, with stylish good looks to boot.

As such, they pursue a very similar sound, if not one that is identical due to differences in housing materials affecting acoustics; perhaps the difference in impedance is an attempt to compensate for these changes. The bass have great body and weight even if it slighlty decay on mids on bass heavy tracks, mid bass being pumped up and ultra energic giving an exciting turn to acoustic drum used in jazz or rock, mids being lively with impressive presence and timbre that can deal so well with vocal, piano or violin, and treble having just enough extension to give you the details you need without the harshness or peaks that can make long listening fatiguing : Neo is a rebel maestro that know how to read a partition and give it all layers it need but with an expressive twist that will sure polarize audiophile.Melody Gardot’s C’est Magnifique (Sunset in the Blue, Decca) plays and there is an edible, analog-like richness across this track that is, for lack of a better word, spellbinding (in the best sense). I cannot hide my joy listening to the Meze 99 Neo, and hope it will be contagious, but sometime passion about musicality is something more subjective than about technicalities. TREBLE extension of HE-300 is sure more prononced and without any roll off, I even suspect bats can’t take as much treble fowardness, its skalpel sharp and crave every details it can, to the point of over saturation, this do not give HE-300 more sparkle and brillance strangely, as the Meze have more natural decay and even sound better with harpsichord instrument as the note have more roundness and impact. Of course when paired with more expensive sources—Cayin N6II/A01 and the iBasso DX220/AMP1 Mk II—the 99 Classics scaled beautifully. They lack a bit of bite and certainly some brilliance, but they still don't necessarily lack liveliness.