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105 SILVA - CAPTIVATING ALL SENSES

105 SILVA - CAPTIVATING ALL SENSES

Meze Audio launches 105 SILVA, an open-back headphone that captivates all senses   Romanian manufacturer Meze Audio, renowned for its timeless craftsmanship and emotionally engaging sound, proudly ...

POET - AUDIBLE EMOTION

POET - AUDIBLE EMOTION

Introducing POET – A new era of compact,  high-performance planar-magnetic headphones    Meze Audio, the acclaimed Romanian manufacturer of high-end headphones, proudly announces the release of POE...

Meze Audio previews two new products at HIGH END Munich 2025

Meze Audio previews two new products at HIGH END Munich 2025

Renowned Romanian manufacturer of artisan, high-end headphones, Meze Audio, has announced the latest additions to its industry leading product line-up to be previewed at HIGH END Munich 2025. 10...

ALBA - A LIGHT IN THE SHAPE OF SOUND

ALBA - A LIGHT IN THE SHAPE OF SOUND

Introducing ALBA in-ears – a new addition to the Meze Audio portfolio   Meze Audio is delighted to introduce ALBA to its impressive range of headphones, which as its Romanian translation signifies,...

105 AER -  A LUSH SONIC OASIS

105 AER - A LUSH SONIC OASIS

Meze Audio introduces 105 AER: light,lush-sounding open-back headphones Meze Audio proudly introduces 105 AER, the Romanian artisan brand’s latest addition to its best-in-class range. An over-ear...

Meze Audio LIRIC headphones Munich High End 2024

Excited to see you again at Munich

The time is finally upon us to meet up for yet another year at the biggest dedicated Hi-Fi event for all music lovers and audio enthusiasts worldwide – High End Munich! Since last year, your consta...

Thanks for Tuning In

Thanks for Tuning In

12 Years and Counting Evolution is not an easy process for anyone. It involves a great deal of reflection and exploration, but, ultimately, what is most important is facing challenges head-on, toge...

Empyrean II - Gateway to Sonic Paradise

Empyrean II - Gateway to Sonic Paradise

Building on the acclaim of the original Empyrean - already one of the most technologically advanced designs – the new Empyrean II emerges as a symphony of artistry, innovation and craftsmanship. Fo...

Gianluca Madotto applying linseed oil to an ear cup

Gianluca Madotto - the Artisan behind the Primal

Meet Gianluca Madotto – the mind behind the 109 PRO Primal. Avid nature-lover, trail biker and tattoo artist in his spare time, he is an artisan at Meze Audio who made his mark by pushing the bound...

World, meet PRIMAL

World, meet PRIMAL

We're very happy to announce the launch of our 109 Pro Primal: a very special edition of the award-winning 109 Pro headphones and the latest addition to the exclusive Meze Audio Art Gallery collect...

109 Pro receives EISA award

109 Pro receives EISA award

For the second year in a row, Meze Audio’s expertise was acknowledged by one of the most prestigious institutions in the field of electronics – EISA (Expert Imaging and Sound Association). The 109 ...

Let’s catch up – come meet us in Munich!

Let’s catch up – come meet us in Munich!

For us, the first half of 2023 was all about human connection. After closing one of the best years of Meze Audio so far, we took some time to focus on our company’s “inner self” – our team. We beli...

Lucky Number 2

Lucky Number 2

One of the best things happening when you are part of a global brand is getting to know and befriend people from so many different backgrounds and cultures. Ever since the beginning, we sought to m...

The story behind the box - 109 PRO

The story behind the box - 109 PRO

We make headphones that last; inspiring works of functional art that are meant to accompany you on a lifelong journey through the universe of your emotions. Going beyond trends and short-lived fash...

The Ugly Duckling of headphones

The Ugly Duckling of headphones

Upon a close examination of Advar's chassis, people found one small detail that caught their attention and intrigued them: the serial number. 

Exploring new horizons - Meze Audio’s 109 PRO to be showcased at CanJam London

Exploring new horizons - Meze Audio’s 109 PRO to be showcased at CanJam London

The newest addition to the Meze Audio lineup of products made in Romania, the brand’s first dynamic open-back headphone, will make its debut at CanJam London, at the end of this month. During 30 an...

A world-class pairing – DCS Lina now available from Meze Audio

A world-class pairing – DCS Lina now available from Meze Audio

We’ve always been amazed by the amount of passion and enthusiasm that bring together the audiophile community and we’ve always used this as some kind of fuel for our creative process. Not just tha...

HIGH END MUNICH 2022 – a much anticipated return

HIGH END MUNICH 2022 – a much anticipated return

For HIFI aficionados worldwide, the High-End Munich show is one of the most important and impressive get-togethers in the audio world, a place where trends are set, inspiration is shared and ground...

Meze Audio 2021 Rundown

An emotive rundown of the 10th year of Meze Audio

To us, the people working behind the scenes at Meze Audio, 2021 was remarkable! Full of new launches that brought some hard working, yet rewarding days, long brainstorming sessions that gave birth ...

Meze Audio Featured in Exclusive Rolls Royce Enthusiasts’ Club Publication, Strive for Perfection: The Royal Edition

Meze Audio Featured in Exclusive Rolls Royce Enthusiasts’ Club Publication, Strive for Perfection: The Royal Edition

We’re happy to announce that Meze Audio was selected to appear in the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts’ Club (RREC) official 2021 yearbook, titled Strive for Perfection: The Royal Edition. Strive for Perfec...

The 99 Classics, a statement of timeless design

The 99 Classics, a statement of timeless design

For those who know us and have followed our journey in the past 10 years, it is no secret that, to us, design is just as important as performance when it comes to our headphones. Our founder himsel...

Get to know the MEZE ARTISTS family

Get to know the MEZE ARTISTS family

Music is a language we can all understand, a universal way of self-expression, and creativity in the purest form. Who among us doesn’t have those unforgettable stories related to a favorite album,...

Creating the Phoenix

Creating the Phoenix

Back in 2015, when Antonio Meze founded Meze Audio, he had no idea of the things that lay ahead. It all started from a deep belief that design should enrich life and inspire people in the right way...

The story of the wooden classics

The story of the wooden classics

An ancient heritage  Growing up in Maramures, Romania, you’re surrounded by forests so old, so dense, where secular treetops work like a natural fortress to shelter over 10,000 species, from plants...

Innovation lies in the smallest details - Empyrean's pressure distribution wings are now PATENT PENDING

Innovation lies in the smallest details - Empyrean's pressure distribution wings are now PATENT PENDING

  For those who’ve known us for a long time, it’s no secret that Meze Audio is constantly fueled with passion for sound, for art and innovation. In the beginning, it was all about wanting to build ...

The story of Meze Audio and 3000 Ubisoft Talents

The story of Meze Audio and 3000 Ubisoft Talents

Sometime last year, the team at Ubisoft Romania challenged us to create some anniversary gifts for them, and we simply couldn’t say no. Ubisoft is well-known as a global leader in video-game produ...

…for the love of music…

…for the love of music…

It’s no secret that 2020 was a hard one, and our desire to experience in-person interactions is honestly already through the roof. Lockdown has us missing all the opportunities we had to hang out, ...

RECORDING EMOTIONS

RECORDING EMOTIONS

Music has always brought people together, in more ways than one. The road from creation to enjoying the final product is filled with opportunities for likeminded individuals to connect, collaborate...

Tradeshows in pandemic times

Tradeshows in pandemic times

We’re so tired from all the traveling and tradeshows we attended these last couple of months. Right! Just kidding. We’ve been here stuck around our offices since February. And just when we were on ...

Antonio Meze For The Russian Audiophile Community

Antonio Meze For The Russian Audiophile Community

“As you are a pretty young man, how did you come to the idea to produce headphones?” – one of the opening questions in an interview for Pult.ru, the largest online store for Hi-Fi & High End-te...

OVER A CHAT WITH JAZZIZ MAGAZINE

OVER A CHAT WITH JAZZIZ MAGAZINE

May 4th, Star Wars Day! Fictional alien species from across the Galaxy, Empire or Resistance alike, together with their respective fans, find a reason to celebrate. An excellent day to catch up wit...

REMEMBER THE LAST SHOWS BEFORE LOCKDOWN?

REMEMBER THE LAST SHOWS BEFORE LOCKDOWN?

We’ve been off the blogging grid for a while and now that we’re back, from our socially distanced selves, we can’t help but immerse in a bit of nostalgia. Can you remember the last audio tradeshows...

AUTUMN TRADESHOW VIBES

AUTUMN TRADESHOW VIBES

We had a beautiful, sunny and colorful autumn here in Baia Mare, the city where our team is imagining, creating and assembling day by day the headphones you love. However, we are fortunate enough t...

I know where you’ve been last summer

I know where you’ve been last summer

Looking back at warm summer days, we’re counting our achievements and fun tradeshow times accompanied by curious audiophiles from all around the world.  Let’s remember Munich first! May has been a...

Honest Design - How the Meze 99 Classics evolved

Honest Design - How the Meze 99 Classics evolved

The Meze 99 Classics underwent a 2-year design process. We are shedding light on how our most iconic headphone to date came to be.

Wishblindness

Wishblindness

Wanting something feels coherent, but it’s anything like that: it is dynamic, messy, comes bundled with hundreds of other implicit desires. Like most human concepts, a cloud with blurry contours is...

Using Wood

Using Wood

We design headphones, we love it, and so we get to think a lot about these rather small objects that change people’s acoustic environments. Here, we’d like to share a bit about the part of the de...

Stop by

Stop by

Meze Headphones stops by at Simbio restaurant & bar in Bucharest. A modernised old building, part of the old city, that reminds us of the the patchwork of architectural styles that felicitousl...

Implicit and invisible

Implicit and invisible

Individuals and small startups are usually held to be lagging behind when it comes to the research resources that big companies enjoy. However, this disparity is greatly diminished in the domains t...

IFA Berlin 2016, fresh memories

IFA Berlin 2016, fresh memories

We were - shortly - boarding the hype train at IFA! It’s hard not to. Our stand had the new lineup complete: we launched the Meze 12 Classics. Not paper-launch, but for real, as we started shipping...

See you at IFA Berlin 2016

See you at IFA Berlin 2016

t’s time for a new edition of IFA Berlin, the electronics show where tendencies in new tech are entertained, dreamed and, yes, hyped. We were there for the first time last year, during the Indiegog...

The CanJam London 2016 experience

The CanJam London 2016 experience

CanJam London 2016 in a nutshell: two days of headphone extravaganza. We had the pleasure to meet many of our industry peers, share ideas and impressions. Most importantly, we got to shake hands - ...

The Meze 99 Classics - The first months recap

The Meze 99 Classics - The first months recap

It's been three months since the Meze 99 Classics Gold have started shipping, four months since one of the first reviews of the headphone surfaced, and seven months since the highly successful Indi...

Meet Meze Headphones at CanJam Singapore 2016

Meet Meze Headphones at CanJam Singapore 2016

UPDATE - All we can say about CanJam Singapore is "Wow!" We have participated at other trade shows in the past but never before at an event where cans were the main attraction. Seeing so many highl...

CanJam Singapore 2016 Event Preview

CanJam Singapore 2016 Event Preview

CanJam Singapore 2016 is ready to launch. Jude Mansilla of Head-Fi.org has prepared a sneak-peek video of what to expect for the event.  Check out the full video down below where Meze Headphones is...

Meze Headphones at CES Las Vegas 2016

Meze Headphones at CES Las Vegas 2016

Update January 20, 2016 - CES 2016 was an amazing experience for Meze Headphones. We are happy to announce that the response for the upcoming releases was highly positive. See you at CES 2017 where...

The IFA Berlin 2015 confirmation

The IFA Berlin 2015 confirmation

Berlin, the city of artists, is where we revealed our latest creation, the results of our last two years of research and development, to the world: The 99 Classics headphones are a testament to our...

Super model Elena Natura photo shoot

Super model Elena Natura photo shoot

What better way to present our range of headphones than with a photo shoot in nature? We have teamed up with super model Elena Natura and photographer Adriana Becichi to shoot some amazing photos o...

BIG IN JAPAN!

BIG IN JAPAN!

Meze Headphones has launched its first official Japanese website. With a minimalistic and classy design, emblematic for Japanese culture, the site was created to better serve our fans from the Land...

Japanese jazz singer Karen Aoki wearing Meze Headphones

Japanese jazz singer Karen Aoki wearing Meze Headphones

If you’re a jazz aficionado then you have surely heard of KAREN AOKI. One wold generally consider jazz an acquired taste but with Karen Aoki there is a difference. Her soothing voice and singing st...