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vvcv
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Jun 10, 2020
Hello, I've been looking at these for a while and was hoping for some help in a compare study. Even though I've had my Meze Noir for a couple of months, they either finally mellowed out and broke in or I just opened my ears, but I'm charmed by the Meze Noir headphones. I mean, seriously (I ask myself), when going direct into my tube DAC or my Cavalli hybrid amp, I have a hard time reaching for my Senn HD6xx, Audioquest Nighthawk, or my once favorite HiFiMan 4xx. Right now anyway, the Meze is all I want. But, for those of you lucky to own both these and the Meze Noir -or their 'Classic'- would you mind going into how they compare? I'm a classical to contemp. classical listener, so things like tone, timbre and instrument richness are pretty important with sound stage not as important as on my speaker systems. Please, be as detailed or brief as you prefer. Thanks either way, and thanks for reading. I realized today that my Meze remind me so much of Graham and to a lesser degree Wharfedale speakers. To which I listen to both a lot. Just a bit of info. for you speaker folks.
Adorno
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Jun 10, 2020
vvcvI had Noir for half a year or so and got 177x a week ago. I haven't listened to Noir in quite some time, so take it with some grain of salt. For me, Noir is more laid back than 177x. I think it has more bass quantity, but it clouds other frequencies. 177x is way more intense. Bass is punchy, but doesn't overpower mid-range. Based on that I would say these are more detailed than Noir
vvcv
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Jun 10, 2020
Adornowow, okay. In all honesty, I can't imagine more detail than Noir. I've felt that I'm soaking more music up with them than my Senn 6xx. I am very new to headphone gear, and I was under the impression that a lot of people use their Senn 650 as the all-time reference headphone. I don't know if 6xx is like 650 (old version) at all, but it doesn't hold up to the Noir for me regarding only detail qualities. The sound stage of my 6xxs is amazing though. The best I've heard (not many). There's not a lot of bass at all in classical music, though this is not the case with contemporary classical. Any type of classical recording worth listening to are top tier, and any unbalance, like too much of any frequency, very rarely happens, if at all; unless the composer intended it to be so for a simple effect for a type of 'sound', passage statement, endings, etc. Thanks for the information though, now i really need to consider and weight them even closer and under a microscope. It will be these or the Grado RS2e I almost purchased today. Either way, I can't wait to hear either one of these headphones with the Topping A90 on its way to me now -along with my D90 DAC. I really hope this Topping duo out paces the Benchmark DAC and headphone/preamp setup. If any are curious, the Topping D90, for me and my music preferences comes in ahead of my Benchmark HGC2 (similar to HGC3 according to Benchmark sales person) by a good amount. This is way off-topic, but the AK4499 DAC is pretty special. I'm always in support of top quality at very fair prices, and the Topping 90s might be a pair to have. I don't think any of the multi-thousand dollar audiophiles would ever buy either of these two Topping pieces, but they really just don't get it and don't deserve them anyway...just kidding audiophiles. :D Sorry everyone for going off-topic, just woke up and on my second cup of coffee. Now back to work. Thanks again Adomo!
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