Meze Audio values first-hand experience and constructive feedback from experienced users, and we want to connect with as many dedicated headphone enthusiast as possible. Unfortunately, the current circumstances made this very difficult, so we decided to expedite our LIRIC tour as early as possible.
The LIRIC is our first high-end closed-back planar headphone that is re-engineered for portable use. By combining the Isodynamic Hybrid Array Driver with the patent-pending Phase-X™ system from Rinaro, we were able to create an experience comparable to that of an open-back headphone, which translates to a spacious soundstage and accurate imaging that allows you to hear the track exactly how it was initially recorded. Rinaro’s created the MZ4 Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver exclusively for Meze LIRIC, it offers the same dual-shaped voice coil array seen in the Meze Audio Empyrean and Elite. and delivers an outdoor music experience that goes beyond the limitations of a closed-back design.
Please read the tour instruction carefully. By signing up to the tour, you are agreeing to follow the tour arrangement and will publish a detailed review of LIRIC showcase on Head Gear or any magazine/review website you are affiliated with. For more information regarding Meze LIRIC, please check out the Meze website and the official Meze Audio LIRIC thread in Head-Fi forum.
Tour Schedule:
- 10 December 2021: Tour Application Starts
- 19 December 2021: Tour Application Ended
- 22 December 2021: Tour Reviewers announced and start to collect mailing addresses.
- 27 December 2021: Tour Sample will be sent to reviewers
How to Apply:
If you are interested to review our LIRIC in this tour, please reply to this thread and provide the following information:
- Head-Fi Username:
- The CITY and COUNTRY you are located.
- Reviews on Personal Audio products you have published in Head Gear/Head-fi forum or elsewhere.
- Audio equipment that you will use in your LIRIC audition.
- Headphones that you currently own.
Logistic Arrangement:
- We shall group reviewers according to geographical locations.
- We shall send LIRIC review package to first reviewer on each group.
- Each tour reviewer is responsible for paying the shipping costs to the next tour reviewer.
- The last reviewer in the list will be responsible to ship the combo to a designated address to conclude the tour. If the return address requires international shipping, Meze will cover the mailing cost incurred.
- Meze will cover all import tax but please help us to control our tax expenditure whenever possible.
- Unless other stated by your next reviewer, please use trackable mailing service with signature required.
- If we have more than one Head-Fiers from the same metropolitan area/city joining the tour, we encourage them to pass the equipment in person to reduce shipping cost and mailing time, and share the final logistic cost if needed.
- To minimize tax and logistic cost, we shall avoid international shipping within the group unless the shipment is tax free and low-risk/low-cost in logistic and custom handling.
Terms and Instruction
- The tour reviewer can keep the LIRIC Tour sample for no more than 14 days, please plan your audition and be prepared to ship/pass the package on the 14th of your audition period.
- By signing up to the tour, you are agreeing to post a formal review and/or some form of impressions within 14 days after your audition period, and Meze Audio can use your review of the LIRIC for sales and marketing purposes.
- We are particularly interested with the associated electronics you used during the review, and is most appreciated if you can include photo of LIRIC with associated players, portable amp or DAC/amp in your writing.
- Meze Audio reserves the right on the selection, grouping and scheduling of reviewers in this tour.
Publication guideline
You are free to write up your sharing or impression as long as it represents your true feeling and opinions toward the product. Please state in your review/impression that the LIRIC is a free loan unit from Meze Audio, and you have/shall return the unit to Meze at the end of review period.
Please do not post your impression in this thread because no one will read this thread after we finalized our tour reviewers. We want your reviews to be read by as many current or potential users of LIRIC as possible, so please share your review to the official LIRIC thread, the LIRIC Showcase at Head Gear or any related general discussion thread in Head-Fi forum if you happen to be an active member. On top of the Head-Fi forum, you are welcome to post your review/impression/photo to any social media or local Personal Audio forum/blog/magazine etc., Please tag your review/impression/photo with #MezeLiric so that we can keep track of your contribution, which is an important factor when we shortlist tour reviews in subsequent products.
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