This page does not review anything Meze makes. It counts one thing: how much of what this database says about their products came out of their own documents, and how much had to be worked out or left blank.
| Model | Impedance | Sensitivity | Source of the figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| 105 AER | 42 Ω | 112.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| 105 SILVA | 42 Ω | 112.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| 109 Pro | 40 Ω | 112.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| 99 Classics | 32 Ω | 103.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| 99 Classics (2nd Gen) | 16 Ω | 103.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| 99 Neo | 26 Ω | 103.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| Alba | 32 Ω | 109.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| ARTA | 225 Ω | 98.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| Elite | 32 Ω | 101.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| Elite Tungsten | 32 Ω | 101.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| Empyrean | 32 Ω | 100.0 dB | Not published |
| Empyrean II | 32 Ω | 90.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| Liric | 61 Ω | 100.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| POET | 55 Ω | 101.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
| Rai Penta | 20 Ω | 110.0 dB | Not published |
| Rai Solo | 16 Ω | 105.0 dB | Not published |
| STRADA | 40 Ω | 111.0 dB/mW | Published per mW |
Impedance is almost always printed. Sensitivity is the one that goes wrong, because a decibel figure means two very different things depending on whether it is per milliwatt or per volt — about five decibels apart at 300 Ω and eighteen at 16 Ω. The conversion is here.
| Model | As printed | Tolerance | Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 105 AER | 5 Hz - 30 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| 105 SILVA | 5 Hz - 30 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| 109 Pro | 5 Hz - 30 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| 99 Classics | 15 Hz - 25 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| 99 Classics (2nd Gen) | 15 Hz - 25 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| 99 Neo | 15 Hz - 25 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| Alba | 15 Hz - 25 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| ARTA | 3 Hz - 115 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| Elite | 3 Hz – 112 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| Elite Tungsten | 3 Hz – 112 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| Empyrean II | 8 Hz – 110 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| Liric | 4 Hz - 92 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| POET | 4 Hz – 96 kHz | not printed | not printed |
| STRADA | 5 Hz - 30 kHz | not printed | not printed |
Meze prints a frequency range for all 14 models here whose sheets have been read.
Not one of those ranges comes with a tolerance in decibels. Without a ±dB figure a range says nothing about how loud the headphone is at either end of it, which puts Meze with the majority: of the 490 models across this database whose maker prints a range, 58 print the tolerance.
The rows are not even called the same thing twice: 2 different headings across 14 models (“Frequency range”, “Frequency Response”).
3 further models of theirs in this database have no page left on their site at all, so there is nothing to read for them either way. That is counted separately from printing nothing, because it is a different fact.
No measurement is published here — only what was printed. The whole count, maker by maker, is in the frequency response audit.
The hardest of the 17 to drive is the Meze ARTA: 1.6 mW and 0.60 V for a 100 dB SPL peak. Their impedances run from 16 to 225 Ω, which matters because the voltage a headphone wants rises with impedance while the power falls.
280 of the 280 sources here reach 100 dB on all 17, and the cheapest of them is the Apple USB-C dongle (EU) at $9. “Reaches” means the maker’s own published power figure is enough at that load; it is not a judgement of how it sounds.
On hiss the count is smaller, because most of the industry does not publish a noise figure at all: of the 83 sources here that do, 66 stay under the threshold of hearing on all 3 of their in-ears. The one to watch is the Meze Rai Penta at 127 dB/V — the more sensitive the in-ear, the more of the amplifier’s own noise you hear.
Their lowest impedance is the Meze Rai Solo at 16 Ω, so a source wants an output impedance at or below 2.0 Ω to satisfy the one-eighth rule on everything they make. 134 of the 169 sources that publish an output impedance manage that.
These counts use figures the source makers published themselves. A product that publishes nothing is not counted as a pass anywhere above, which is why the three numbers differ so much. The collection matcher runs the same arithmetic over whatever you actually own.
Most of what this site says about Meze came from them, with the rest derived and labelled as derived.
The rule used here is the same for every maker and is described on the manufacturer index. Every figure behind it can be opened on the product page it came from, with the document it came from linked.