Meze Audio, the Romanian model accountable 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 attain 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) in the course of the Chilly Battle, Rinaro has spent greater than three many years creating 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 may lack in nimbleness, they make up for in magnificence.
With their modern acoustic grille and matte black end with metallic accents, the headphones are a real feast for the eyes.
What’s extra, the ARTA look more likely to reside 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 building.
And wouldn’t or not it’s a disgrace for any of that to go to waste? Actually, for the worth. Fortunately, the ARTA’s earpads, headband, drivers and earcups might be totally disassembled, serviced and changed as required.
We don’t but know what selection 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 via Meze Audio’s official channels.
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