Meze 11 Classics Earphones Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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performance this is a bit of an interesting unboxing these are the MZ 11
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Classics designed by Antonio mes and
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what they are are they are wooden earbuds which sounds like sort of a a
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mixture of sort of super high technology and like you know carving things out of
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wood but there is a practical reason for using wood as a material to make audio
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products so the objective here was to deliver a very warm natural sound with
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earbuds that have a style that really
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can't go out of style so Inside the Box
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you find not a whole lot other than a carrying case which is great because
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personally I actually am guilty of doing this I carry my headphones in my pocket
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with no carrying case at all and that's an easy way for them to get damaged so
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we're going to go ahead and sort of assume that a carrying case that'll easily fit in your pocket is something
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that you could easily carry around with you packaging wise mes doesn't say too
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much about these handcrafted ebonywood chamber reproducing crisp but warm
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natural sound okay dedicated 8 mm
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neodium drivers wow incorporate
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microphone looks like they're missing an eye there compatible with iPhone iPod
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mp3 mp4 comes with three sizes of soft silicone earbuds and an Eva case for for
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carrying okay so sensitivity 101 plus orus 2 DB impedance oh we're missing an
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i again look at that uh 14 ohms frequency response 16 Herz to 24
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kilohertz and rated input power of three Mega mowatt so okay so their packaging
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isn't the greatest thing in the world but quite frankly I don't care about packaging very much as long as the
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headphones themselves are freaking awesome and from my from my research
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about these headphones and my level of excitement about checking them out I am
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expecting them to be freaking awesome everything that i' had seen about them
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already indicated that they were great and then Logan from Tech Syndicate
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posted his review the other day indicating that they were great and that
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is from an audio Recorder's perspective not an audio recorder like one of
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these but an audio recorder like someone
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who composes and Records audio so uh
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Logan has some pretty cool some pretty cool tracks that he does and he was
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saying that he was using these and didn't even realize that he was using
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earbuds which he normally doesn't prefer to use uh so that is a that is a very
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very strong statement indeed so the headphones the earbuds themselves look
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absolutely fantastic I'm maybe I don't know if this makes me like a hipster or
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whatever then it is what it is but I mean the the look of natural wood grain
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on a product is not beatable by any kind
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of artificial uh any kind of artificial
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finish that you can put on on it so at the back you've got a simple MZ logo
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there's a little hair on it there we go it's going to come off come off come off
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there we go yes okay you've got a simple little MZ logo then you've just got a
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beautiful naturally finished wood grain followed by what appears to
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be yeah it must be plastic and there's that massive 8 mm driver so 8 m drivers
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are going to be able to just deliver just plain more sound particularly Basse
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to your ears than smaller drivers would what I'm expecting about these based on
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that is that they're not going to fit really deep inside the ear canal like
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something like a steel series flux in your does but they'll fit more around
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sort of the uh the the the opening of the ear canal so I'm expecting to wear
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the medium siiz tips and it looks like that's going to be about right for me
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now they don't stick out super far but they also don't sit really flush inside
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the ear like the steel series flux INE Pros do with their more hearing aid
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based shape the ear sides are clearly marked this I actually appreciate
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because when you're looking around for them in the dark particularly with earphones that um don't feel that
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different up at the top it's nice to have those clearly labeled however due
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to the integrated microphone you can also use that to find which one's left
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the mic is always on the left from my experience so there you go there's an
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integrated microphone that is very very
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very simple if there was anything I had to complain about with these headphones
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it would probably be the construction of the microphone it feels a little bit on
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the sort of not that fantastic side but
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it's not the end of the world I wouldn't expect to be using it much it's got a simple button for taking calls and all
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that but there you have it and again based on Logan's review the recording
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quality of the microphone is actually not bad at all the cord itself is
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braided so you shouldn't have to worry too much about it being damaged by cats
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or other Critters that might want to well damage it and then up at the top
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we've got a bit of a unique shape to the Jack so rather than going with a
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straight Jack or or with a right angle Jack it looks like M has hedged their
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bets a little bit and gone with a 45° angle Jack which should in theory be 45°
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as opposed to not being 45° noise
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isolation is already outstanding I forgot that when I plug things into my
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phone my music starts immediately so I can't hear a bloody thing I'm saying
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right now so hopefully it's all coherent I think that pretty much wraps it up
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thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the mes 11 Classics
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headphones don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips from unboxings reviews and
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