Meze Audio, the Romanian model liable for the 99 Classics and Empyrean II, has returned with a brand new high-end pair of wired over-ear headphones.
The corporate says the brand new ARTA headphones are “a passion-project years within the making”, providing the “most immersive” sonic expertise it has ever created.
We hope so, contemplating the ARTA’s eye-watering estimated value of £6000 / $6000. That makes this Meze’s most costly pair of headphones so far.
To realize the ARTA’s “warm-neutral sound signature”, Meze has used a excessive impedance isodynamic hybrid array from Rinaro.
Based in Ukraine (then a part of the USSR) throughout the Chilly Conflict, Rinaro has spent greater than three a long time growing planar magnetic drivers. This array, which employs Rinaro’s highest-impedance planar magnetic headphone driver so far, makes use of the corporate’s important expertise to ship a “wealthy speaker-like presentation”.
Meze says listeners can anticipate “cleaner transients and a extra open presentation” from the ARTA, achieved by the use of the cans’ grille, which makes use of angled acoustic blades to minimise soundwave reflections contained in the headphones.
The bulkiest headphones in Meze’s roster, these premium cans weigh in at a hefty 495g. However what they could lack in nimbleness, they make up for in magnificence.
With their smooth acoustic grille and matte black end with metallic accents, the headphones are a real feast for the eyes.
What’s extra, the ARTA look prone to stay up the luxurious really feel we so loved from Meze’s different over-ear headphones, with carbon fibre, leather-based and high quality metals used of their development.
And wouldn’t it’s a disgrace for any of that to go to waste? Actually, for the value. Fortunately, the ARTA’s earpads, headband, drivers and earcups will be absolutely disassembled, serviced and changed as required.
We don’t but know what alternative of cables will probably be accessible with the headphones, however we hope to get additional particulars at their public debut on 4th June at Excessive Finish Vienna.
The ARTA’s market availability will probably be introduced quickly by way of Meze Audio’s official channels.
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