The same lush musicality will happen with Madeleine Peroux if there not too foward sacoustic bass line, as it will sound more full bodied because of this perfect upper mid bass emphasis, but the bipolarity begin when you put boomy electronic or bass heavy pop, wich will stole some of resolution to lower mids.

Feel free to check out the link below to check the current pricing and availability for this headphone. Side by side, the classics are definitely the more premium of the two, but both are beautiful sets of cans from an aesthetical standpoint.All happening across a black-quiet background, that was brought into relief, when the music rose, across a broad and deep soundstage.

The noir's come with both the original and the "new" pads - i would consider both completely unusable for my head/ears. Again, in terms of tuning, natural is the word I would use to describe the 99 Neo’s treble performance. The soundstage potential is take to its paroxysm with synths pads coming from each side of your head, kick and snare in the middle and voice above it in a transparent way, sound presentation being very holographic and dense with all details being push fowards to give extra dynamic to Neo lush presentation. In sum the DX220 splendidly drove the 99 Classics to a higher performance level with a tonality safely ensconced in analog-like musicality, but closer, no doubt, to the neutral zone. The Meze 99 Classics’ volumetric cube—its soundstage—is generous in regard to width and height and provides quite good depth as well.They are a very natural, dare I say analogue sounding headphones that retain the organic characters of the wooden 99 Classics despite employing ABS earcups. At 1:04 as the track becomes very busier the mid bass struggles to cope up with the vocals, background instruments, they start to get muffled. What hit your eyes first is the quality protective case you have, it is made of hard material that take perfectly the shape of Meze headphone, with not extra space. The 99 Classics are no slouches either, their crispness up top helping them sound balanced and snappy. Whether or not there was any such intent behind the naming of these wired over-ear headphones, they are, for the most part, as delectable as they sound.

For the bulk of this review the Meze 99 Classics were partnered to the AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt, which proved to be an exceptional musical partnership.I think the Denon’s are probably the closest competitor to the Meze’s, and in terms of midrange performance, it’s a pretty fair trade-off with both being equally enjoyable and tasteful to my ear. This comparaison experiment underline the fact that more details do not equal to more enjoyment as well as richer sound, because the body of everynote give a more realist musical rendering in they end. It still has that analog and engaging sound of the Classic but takes things just a touch to the warmer side and pushes the bass up a couple of notches. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. The Meze 99 Neo is all about musicality, it offer a wide warm and well layered sound that enjoy as much playing contemplative modern Jazz or Classical quartet than muscular bassy electronic or pop music.

Since I rather value the functional aspect, I often complain that this part comes too short with some manufacturers and then you have a headphone sparkling in the sunlight with unique hand paintings of Native Americans, but in the best case can also hold a tin can or a shell to the ear, where then the "sea noise" still sounds more natural than from the extravagant work of art. If there any colouration in treble, it will be to push some micro details just a hing fowards, wich will help with instrument separation. And their highs were also, relatively, extended and sweet, though, again, the 99 Classics were more transparent and thus able to uncover more detail.The walnut and maple earcups, soft earpads, and spring steel headband will make the 99 Classics an heirloom rather than just a pair of headphones. Despite the odd break for hot ears, I found no fatigue from clamping pressure or the self-adjusting headband's compression. The bass have great body and weight even if it slighlty decay on mids on bass heavy tracks, mid bass being pumped up and ultra energic giving an exciting turn to acoustic drum used in jazz or rock, mids being lively with impressive presence and timbre that can deal so well with vocal, piano or violin, and treble having just enough extension to give you the details you need without the harshness or peaks that can make long listening fatiguing : Neo is a rebel maestro that know how to read a partition and give it all layers it need but with an expressive twist that will sure polarize audiophile. Actually, a bit of a pity, since this fact is the only serious point on my list of shortcomings of the NEO, respectively runs like a red thread through the signature, together with the somewhat limited stage dimensioning. And a transparency that liberated layers of detail, microdynamics, nuance, air, and staging cues—separation, positioning, layering.