What makes me think that James Hetfield is standing over my head when I lay
in my bed, and then get beaten up by Yo Yo ma, and pushed down the hall, to be
rolled down the stairs. A 1.5 inch by
1.5 inch box that a friend brought over, saying it showed up delivered and she
was dropping off a doll for my wife (yes my wife collects dolls)
I am waiting for my over the ear set to arrive but this
afternoon, the ear buds from MEZE showed up from Romania that I ordered. I got
both so I could have one to speak with (phone) as we as one for serious
listening.
Just for my own personal rating and knowledge ect, I consider
myself very knowledgeable about sound, and music in general. Been in everything
from garage bands to opera productions, (I like musical theater and I am
straight, and married – yes we do exist) Got out of dealing with the industry
because I could not get away from folks who keep push drugs at me, so I left to
go join the mindless world of computer repair server repair and office
politics. Can’t tell which is worse actually.
I use a HP phoenix system and Beats by dre software and
hardware for quality control, But the real questions are not for audio
perfectionists the real questions are for the folks I know, would you drop this
money on this, for me is this what I would be happy with as my last pair of ear
buds in my life. So let’s look at the earphones a bit.
They are 8MM speakers, and the sound quality my initial
sleep deprived dream state I was in made everything sound warmer than I thought
the songs should sound. Not harsh enough. However I slowly woke up and examined
these a bit more. They are EXTREMELY detail driven, so let’s start with the
first thing, I can WEAR them. Ear buds and I have a hate/hate relationship,
which is why I try to avoid them like I try and avoid knights meetings I know
my ex-wife will be in. Both the pressure of the pads, and the sharpness of the
sounds RIGHT in my ear, make even the best IMHO prior to this (Bose NR) a painful
experience.
These were none of these things. At a high enough volume to
listen to OLD Metallica, they never reach that point of pain, and the pad are
fairly comfortable even after several hours of use.
The phone jack quality is excellent, being able to hear folks
I need to hear better and they can hear me better than I am used too. The
cabling is covered by small rope; some folks don’t like the texture, I like
that makes it hard on my cats to play “eat the headphone”. The biggest
difference is the ebony (IE wood) that makes up the case. Feels and looks
great, but not positive that it will affect the sound as much as on its bigger cousins.
I do know that I have other buds in the house and this one blows them all away.
They come with a nice travel case, and some nice if discreet
company logo’s on the phones.
I paid 70$ from the site directly. I hear there are only 11 workers
in the company total and they ONLY do internet sales.
They are billed as Audiophile headphones, but given a hard
time for not costing 5k the “the Abyss” (yeas real pair of head phones” As I
said the 11’s got here today that cost me 70$ everything sounds wonderfully
crisp. But does not have the distortion, or false push of the bass, that we are
expecting from any normal set of phones.
And now we get to my question. Am I willing to look at these
as my last pair I will ever have, if that happens.
Well, I paid full price, got no discount, or anything like
that. There were really no options with them, just the headphones, and lots of
little bits. It takes forever to get through customs so you can’t really track
them in shipping. And they are EAR buds, and I hates us yess prescious, we Hates
Ear budsss…
Would I want these as I understand things about them, for
the rest of my life, no matter how long that is?
Absolutely yes. These are the best sounding phones I have
EVER heard
Ever. This includes ones I used in studio session. Nothing like them and these
are the EAR BUDS. Not even the full head phones. I got 9 messages to random
questions answering everyone fully from the company whenever I asked. These by all rights appear to a set of ear
buds made by folks who really love music. All of it, and that it be pure, not
force cleaned by the settings in the speaker. To be frank I prefer even these
Buds (still trying to get over that part) than Bose’s noise reduction big
phones, and “Adagio with Strings” by Samuel barber, well, hell I bet that
listening with these would sound better than being physically there.. Not cheap
at 70$ but that cannot detract from how good they sound, which is the really
only important thing about ear phones.
Yes I keep these forever and they are first on my review
lists, If the 88’s are better than these, ill probably have a heart attacks,
just to be SURE they are the last pair I own.
My hats off to you Antonio Meze, and thank you.
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