{"id":174861,"date":"2023-11-10T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=174861"},"modified":"2023-11-10T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T07:30:04","slug":"meze-empyrean-ii-the-second-generation-flagship-planar-headphones-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/headphones\/meze-empyrean-ii-the-second-generation-flagship-planar-headphones-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Meze Empyrean II : The second generation flagship planar headphones unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meze has started selling an updated model of\u00a0its\u00a0top-end planar headphones called\u00a0Empyrean II\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/72_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main visual difference of the new product was the darker finish of the cup bodies with Art Deco-style grilles, made of aluminum alloy.\u00a0The headband is made of genuine leather and carbon fiber, and the headphones are still supplied in a stylish metal case.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/73_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The set includes two pairs of large ear pads, one of which is covered entirely with Alcantara, while the second is covered with this material combined with genuine leather.\u00a0The acoustic part has an open design and was developed jointly with the company\u00a0Rinaro\u00a0.\u00a0It is built on an isodynamic emitter with a membrane with an area of \u200b\u200b4650 square meters.\u00a0mm and weighing 0.16 g.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/74_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A flat voice coil has a complex shape &#8211; its central part is responsible for reproducing high frequencies, and the outer half-rings are responsible for low frequencies.\u00a0The sensitivity of the headphones is\u00a0105 dB\u00a0, the nominal impedance is\u00a032 ohms\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/75_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is curious that the price of the new product remains the same as that of the original model &#8211; on the European market\u00a0Meze Empyrean II\u00a0is sold for\u00a03,000 euros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meze has started selling an updated model of\u00a0its\u00a0top-end planar headphones called\u00a0Empyrean II\u00a0. The main visual difference of the new product was the darker finish of the cup bodies with Art Deco-style grilles, made of aluminum alloy.\u00a0The headband is made of genuine leather and carbon fiber, and the headphones are still supplied in a stylish metal [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/headphones\/meze-empyrean-ii-the-second-generation-flagship-planar-headphones-unveiled\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":174867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-174861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headphones","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}