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to me is that they're made of actual wood just look at that just just it's so beautiful it's so nice Romanian audio Legends MZ have sponsored us today to talk about their 99 Classics and some of you in the headphone world you might be thinking hey I've seen that you're right these aren't exactly new but that isn't a bad thing good sound stays good for life but Mesi audio has a pretty good reputation for making high quality headphones their 99 Classics sit far more in their mainstream line than some of their really really high-end things like their imperian headphones which I think can cost quite a pretty penny so these can be like a great introduction if you're somebody who's interested in getting into more of the hobbyist headphone space and want something that's going to look classy and also like quite a firm case you can really too much these are a traditional wired headphone there's no batteries there's no Wireless or Bluetooth connection so if you're looking for something that's maybe a better Commuter headphone this might not be it but they're still actually quite Compact and you could totally take them in this carrying case but these aren't like super travel Focus despite their size let's talk about this mess I've made in the Box we get some stickers a a thank you from Antonio Mets himself oh that's neat so since this is actual wood all of the patterns are going to be unique so this is distinct to you only and this SL outch here we have an optional cable you can buy from mes with a 4.4 mm balanced connection and then in here you have long cables too we have a 3M braided cable that goes to a 3.5 mm Jack and we have a shorter travel focused cable that actually has an inline microphone and controller that does as far as I know play and pause maybe a double click will skip maybe triple click we go back one tap to play pause or answer and hang up from a call two Taps to skip three tap tabs to go back I was right I kind of am partial to this really nice braided cable compared to the fabric ones but uh I don't have a balanced output with me today how's the memory on it and look at that there's like no cable memory that's a sign of a high quality cable is that even though it was wrapped up and shipped across the country like that it's basically a straight line now there's no curls or Curves in it as you can see with these cables they have a little bit more memory like see how that curls back up that'll come out probably with where usually um ow did I just burn myself on that holy crap holy crap oh also in that pouch you got a quinch adapter and an airplane adapter these are becoming more and more rare the Collectibles now I kind of wonder why they give you the two pouches I guess maybe this is a little bit nicer than taking this thing but if you're going to be taking these things then you're going to take this so you might as well just fit this in here I don't know oh come on Mez burnning is the process for exercising new audio equipment the main purpose of burning is to process is to loosen the diaphragm of a newly crafted headphone and to stress the headphone driver most audio files agree that sound quality will be noticeably improved after burning the 99 Classics require 40 hours of burning time to reach their optimal performing state but I have some thoughts about burning one there is pretty much no evidence out there that suggests that burning is a noticeable effect or is required on pretty much any headphone two if it is required why aren't they doing that themselves before they send this off to me why wouldn't they just blast these with audio for 40s hours and then send them to me like why would they send me something that doesn't sound good when I buy it that would increase the odds of me being like I don't like these I'm going to return them so just make them sound good when I get them don't try to explain to me in your manual just admit you're not an audio file yeah oh yeah sorry yeah I guess I guess I'm not well no it means I'm not most audio files agree that sound quality will be noticeably improved after burning yeah there's that's kind of a that's kind of some fluff that I don't really appreciate and we should let people know that that's not really a thing but something I do like them including is a frequency response craft but you have to take this with a grain of salt because it doesn't actually say what this was measured on so it's like you can't really compare it to anything cuz you don't know what they used they have Dynamic neodymium myar 40 mm drivers the frequency response is 15 HZ to 25 khz the sensitivity is 103 DB at an impedance of 32 ohms which means that you can expect these to be pretty easy to drive with anything laptop phone you should be set man I love the feeling and the p on these this Walnut Wood it's really nice mes also points out that all of the wood used for these are from trees at the end of their life cycle which is neat and uh replacement and serviceability stands true for the rest of this thing uh we got only nuts and bolts in here there's no glue holding anything together so you can fully take them apart the build quality is pretty solid the seel headband is like despite its thinness is very very rigid maybe if you really went for it you could bend it but I wouldn't call these quite delicate the headband itself is made of polyurethane Leather So plastic leather it's one of these suspension type headbands that I find are really comfortable though I do worry with the weight oh no that's okay that's pretty good what they've avoided they've avoided an issue that some headphones have is that if they're not heavy enough and their headband is a little too tight they start to like pull up on your ears as you listen to them and then you find that like your headphones kind of pushing the your lobes and uh no one wants their loes pushed let's be real the ear cups are mounted on like a ball joint kind of thing you have a very small amount of swivel and tilt and then height adjustment is done by the elastic headband noise isolation sounds pretty good in terms of comfort these cups I find are deep enough for my ears if you have ears that stick out more you might find that they're not quite deep enough and you're hitting a pretty hard uh plastic kind of inner housing and enough space for most ears they're pretty spacious ear cups so I wouldn't be too worried about that I think that these are actually really comfortable the tension on the band up here is at a really great level that even if you kind of Wiggle the ear cups don't climb up they stay seated they're not clamping too too hard they feel very Lux hey you guys want to like talk to me right now okay the sound they're not the most isolating closed-back headphones I've heard like talk to me Andrew I didn't say I said talk to me Andrew okay listen guys we're all friends here right well come on you got I'm nice no I guess now the next thing to do is to take a listen it's not that it's a bad song so I'm tired of it so loud uh they aren't wrong it do get loud they are easy to drive I will say that when you get to the really loud volumes that you probably never will be or should be listening to the sound gets a little compressed but again you really should never be playing these that loud you should now be listening to me on the microphone included with the 99 Classic by m audio uh how does it sound can you hear my tit on my keyboard can you can you really it's kind of more of a value ad than it is supposed to be like a dedicated communication microphone mes positions this as a fun headphone what are you looking at and you know what they ain't wrong they have a nice boost in the base region that makes things kind of you know Thump A little bit more and they're not like overly uh brittle or shrill and they're not like overly sparkling or sient in the high end uh though I wouldn't say that their treble is exactly perfect there's some weird bumps up there but you could either EQ that out easily or maybe it's just an acquired taste that I don't have overall I think the things sound pretty okay and uh and if you know other reviewers who like them as a sound signature and you agree with them on a lot of things then go with them but that's just me what does Labs say if we take a look at the at the frequency response graph provided by Labs we can see that yes there is indeed That Base bump that happens right around the 200 HZ region the nice part is that there's this dip at 300 htz that prevents the face from becoming like too muddy as I said that makes kind of a boomy warmer sound and if we go through the mids things seem pretty chill with a little bit of a dip at 1 khz and then at the upper mids in three and a half oh just south of 4 khz there's that big kind of treble dip which I think is part of where I found that kind of weirdness in terms of presence and then we jump up to a bit of an overemphasized area in the 5 khz to 9 khz region at least compared to our Target which could make things sound maybe a little cilent I didn't find it to be too obnoxious for me now the important thing to note is just because something deviates from our Target doesn't mean that they sound bad our Target is meant to show what would sound good to maybe 65% of the population that leaves a whole lot of people who might not be satisfied by a headphone that matches our targets also like what a boring World we'd live in if every headphone sounded the same at Le would be boring to me they have passive noise isolation that is pretty typical of any closed back headphones uh you know bass noises they don't get really canceled out bass noises and things below like kind of the 1,000 k region don't really get attenuated very much you usually need active noise cancellation to deal with those kinds of uh frequencies it's pretty par for the course and the fact that these aren't like a super tight clamping headphone or anything like that means that these are not the most isolating but you know they're Clos back so you're still going to be able to block out a few things especially once you put on some music and for the mic the inline microphone which it dangles on the left side of the user's head our lab is yet to get its an aoic chamber so you can see that below 80 HZ our acit in our building came on and that kind of threw off the results so ignore that for the most part the mic is very very flat all the way up to about 1500 Hertz after the around the 1500 htz region the microphone kind of starts to dip that's going to make you sound a little muffled a lot of important speech sounds like T's FS P's a lot of the conidence and stuff exist in that space you're not going to be unintelligible but maybe just a little muffled at the end of the day I think that the mzes they're a they're a nice luxury feeling pair of headphones they look so good and they sound pretty great too and they're going to cost you about $39 but for the next two weeks mes is hooking our audience up with a special deal it's easy just click the link in the description and use the code shortcircuit 20 at checkout you will save 20% on your purchase of the 99 Classics in either Walnut silver which we just talked about or walnut gold the better color plus that code will also get you free shipping on your new pair of 99 Classics thanks for watching this video if you liked it well there's a lot more where these came from so why don't you hit that subscribe button and then check out future videos and if you didn't like it tell your enemies"}