It took me some time to get used to Meze sound. But from the beginning.
I've always liked planar thick sound. Dynamic headphones were to thin sounding weren't so velvet so palpate especially in the mid range.
After owning Audeze lcd-xc I wanted something more open sounding and also with less brittle highs. The choice was to buy Meze Empyrean. It was a semi blind choice. I've never heard them before, decission was made based on internet reviews and
@Ragnar-BY opinion - since we have similar system.
So like two weeks ago I had received the package. First like 30 minutes of listening and I'm thinking OMG I love them.
Sound is smooth, warmish but still not like highs are much rolled off or something. Bass is strong, not as strong doesn't have that power that kick as audeze headphones but ye I like it.
Build quality is the best from every headphone that I had my hands on. Some time ago I was listening to Hifiman Susvara - these are like 6k$ and the built quality is nowhere close to Meze. It's really something different. I don't think there are such quality made headphones in the world. It's different, quality of build, the machining the precise fit of every part - they look like lewellery or nice watch. I often don't care that much when it comes to look of the unit. Comfort and sound quality is what matter the most for me.
But with Meze - even if you don't care about such things (like me) you will still immediately notice the quality. Bravo Meze.
But there is the time when honey time period has ended. After listening to couple of days (at that time I was using meze with mojo + m scaler - as my TT2 was on warranty repair) I started to having big head fatigue and ear fatigue.
And the fatigue was really really big. I didn't experienced such head and ear pain even with ultra bright and thin Sennheiser HD 700 !
I thought ok, let's wait. Meze energy in bass is focused on mid region Mojo has similar mid vocal/mid bas, mellow sound presentation. That's probably not the best match so let's wait for my TT2 to be back.
With TT2 situation was better. Bass wasn't so exhausting, sound wasn't congested and clarity was better.
But as you guess I still was getting head/ear pains.
I really don't know why. I must be sensitive to some mid bass frequencies. I love bass but some frequencies that were boosted in Meze caused this like ear ringing.
It's the same thing when you have harsh treble in headphones - you feel this almost like ringing piercing sound/pain.
Maybe it's also because of music which I listen to. I listen mainly to rock, acoustic music. And in thbat kind of music there is a lost of resonance from acoustic guitar etc.
And with Meze issue was similar but with bass. I couldn't listen to music for more like 1 hour. I was tired as I would ran marathon.
I tried alcantara pads. It helped much. But they lost their magic a bit. And with alcantara sound was a bit boring. So they were not for me.
I was a bit upset about the whole situation and I started to thinking about selling them. But I deiced to give them even more time.
