Meze Audio Empyrean Elite Tungsten
Description
The ELITE headphones combine high-end aesthetics with cutting-edge engineering to deliver precise, faithful sound reproduction, designed to satisfy the most demanding listeners. Its colouring is inspired by tungsten, a metal found naturally in several mineral deposits and known for its resistance once worked: this visual reference symbolises the brand's commitment to durable products. The mineral texture is achieved through a Cerakote® coating applied to every element of the chassis, one of the most accomplished finishes on the market. This type of treatment, commonly used in the automotive, aerospace, defence and medical sectors, stands out for its robustness, remarkable hardness and effective UV protection, while providing finish and solidity without adding weight to the headphone structure.
The Elite features a transducer developed specifically by Rinaro, ensuring powerful, realistic and immersive listening. The union between Meze Audio's ergonomics and mechanical expertise and Rinaro's proprietary technology allows this model to rank among the very best in high-end performance. Rinaro also introduces an innovative earpad fixing system, Isomagnetic®, which harnesses the demagnetisation field produced by the driver to hold the earpad in place, while redirecting this magnetic field back towards the driver to increase its output. In terms of longevity, the Elite has been designed to be fully repairable: replaceable earpads and high-performance materials allow every part of the chassis to be easily disassembled and maintained.
- Driver type: Rinaro Isodynamic Hybrid Array®
- Geometric shape: oval
- Operating principle: open-back
- Size: 102 mm x 73 mm
- Ear coupling: circumaural
- Driver weight: 75 g
- Frequency response: 3 Hz – 112 kHz
- Housing: glass-fibre reinforced polymer
- Impedance: 32 Ω
- Diaphragm type: Rinaro Parus® [MZ3SE]
- Sensitivity: 101 dB SPL/mW at 1 kHz
- Active area: 4,650 mm²
- Maximum sound pressure level: >130 dB
- Diaphragm weight: 0.11 g
- Total harmonic distortion (THD): <0.05%
- Acoustic mass: 7.5 kg/m4
- Lower frequency limit: 3 Hz
- Upper frequency limit: 112,000 Hz
- Input connector: dual 4-pin mini-XLR
- Total weight: 433 g
Technical specifications
| Taking long term durability to a new level, the Elite is also fully repairable | from replaceable earpads to the high-performance materials used, every part of the headphone chassis is available to be easily disassembled and maintained. |
| Driver type | Rinaro Isodynamic Hybrid Array® |
| Geometric shape | Oval shape |
| Operating principle | Open-back |
| Size | 102 mm x 73 mm |
| Ear coupling | Circumaural |
| Driver weight | 75 g |
| Frequency response | 3 Hz – 112 kHz |
| Housing | Glass-fibre reinforced polymer |
| Impedance | 32 Ω |
| Diaphragm type | Rinaro Parus® [MZ3SE] |
| Sensitivity | 101 dB SPL/mW at 1 kHz |
| Active area | 4,650 mm2 |
| Maximum sound pressure level | >130 dB |
| Diaphragm weight | 0.11 g |
| Total harmonic distortion (THD) | <0.05% |
| Acoustic mass | 7.5 kg/m4 |
| Lower frequency limit | 3 Hz |
| Upper frequency limit | 112,000 Hz |
| Input connector | dual 4-pin mini-XLR |
| Weight | 433 g |
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