Time flies when you’re having fun! Together with Rinaro Isodynamics, Meze Audio adds a third model to our collaboration series. LIRIC posed a real challenge to both companies: how can we create a flat, closed-back headphone that will change all standards in the headphone world. Combining Meze Audio’s industrial design capabilities with Rinaro’s technological development, LIRIC brings a new flavor to all active Auediophiles who like to take their music with them on the road.
Meze Audio
For the past 10 years, Meze Audio has been developing headphones renowned for their timeless design, ultimate comfort and engaging, vibrant sound. From looks to technology, Meze Audio products are designed to transcend all short-lived trends and become heirlooms rather than just headphones. Today, founder Antonio Meze and his skilled team design and develop their products in Baia Mare, Romania, in the spirit of their original “no compromise” vision.
Rinaro Isodynamics
Rinaro began in the USSR (now Ukraine) during the Cold War, as part of a state-sponsored research program in acoustic technology. With government support and access to advanced testing facilities, the team was able to focus all of their efforts on planar magnetics. An area in which they have continued to innovate over the last 30 years, after the fall of the USSR. Over the past decade, Rinaro has expanded its capabilities and capacity by developing state-of-the-art R&D and production facilities in Ukraine and Poland. The new facilities were a driving force behind the revolutionary Isodynamic Hybrid Array technology found in Meze Audio’s EMPYREAN, ELITE and LIRIC headphones.
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Award-winning technology in a portable frame
The LIRIC features state-of-the-art technology developed by Rinaro, redesigned for everyday use. The MZ4 Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver has been reduced in size and tuned to deliver a sonic experience in line with its larger counterparts found in the Empyrean and Elite.
Combined with the closed-back design, it helps preserve the original clarity and emotion of your favorite music through improved sound and minimized external noise. Each driver is assembled entirely by hand and tested at Rinaro’s industrial facilities in Ukraine.
environment
Reinforced polymer housing designed to withstand the demanding 10.7N load produced by the hybrid magnet array.
ISOPLANAR diaphragm
It weighs only 0.08g with a large active area of 3507mm2.
Hybrid magnet array
Neodymium magnets placed symmetrically on each side of the diaphragm are arranged in a hybrid array to create an equipotential magnetic field of 0.3 Tesla required for uniform actuation across the diaphragm surface.
Equipotential hybrid array driver
The LIRIC is the first closed-back headphone powered by Rinaro’s Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver. Created exclusively for Meze Audio, the MZ4 driver offers the same dual-shape voice coil array seen in the Meze Empyrean. Over 30 years of research and development have gone into the development of this technology, resulting in one of the lightest and most advanced planar magnetic drivers on the market.
A new innovation in the MZ4 driver developed in-house by Rinaro is the Phase-X™ system, which improves the ambience and spatial imaging of sound, often found to be a problem in closed-back headphone designs.
Extremely low distortion
Total harmonic distortion (THD) measures below 0.15% across the entire frequency range.
Light
Combined driver weight 71g, designed to create a headphone that offers comfortable listening on the go.
Phase-X™ System
Enhanced ambience and spatial imaging of sound through innovative technology.
Patent pending
Ultra High-Resolution Audio
The upper frequency limit of audio playback is 92,000 Hz.
EASY-TO-DRIVE
100dB@1mw/1kHz; 30 Ω
It can be driven from almost any portable source without the need for amplification.
SCALED FLAGSHIP ISODYNAMIC HYBRID ARRAY TECHNOLOGY
One of the world’s most sophisticated and advanced planar magnetic technologies has been scaled down for portable use.
It has been patented in the US, EU, China and other countries.
