Meze Elite Peacock & Empyrean II Peacock Limited Edition

When Headphones Become Moments

Some headphones impress you. A few stay with you. And then there are those rare pieces that feel less like products and more like encounters. The Meze Elite Peacock and Meze Empyrean II Peacock belong unmistakably to the latter. These aren’t just special editions. They feel like Meze pulled a thread from the sky at sunrise — that brief second when colours shift, shimmer, and refuse to be named — and bottled it into two flagship headphones.

A play of light, color, and mood

The idea behind both Peacock editions is surprisingly simple—and at the same time astonishingly effective. Meze has coated the familiar trellis grilles of the Empyrean and Elite series with a paint that changes color as soon as the light and viewing angle change. No garish spectacle, no showmanship. Rather, it is a shimmering, organic play of colors that behaves almost like music itself: never static, always in motion, always different. Depending on the light, the headphones appear deep green, then blue, violet, or almost copper. A bit like a peacock’s tail – hence the name. And just like a peacock, this play of colors is not an end in itself, but an expression of a certain poetry.

Built on Two Legends

Under the shimmering skin, of course, nothing has changed — and that’s the good part.

• The Empyrean II remains Meze’s most musically effortless headphone: fluid, natural, almost holographic in the way it fills space.
• The Elite still delivers its unmistakable combination of precision and ease — that ability to reveal detail without dissecting the music.

The Peacock editions don’t try to improve what’s already right. They simply celebrate it.

Why These Two Models Matter

For many of us in the headphone world, the Empyrean and Elite mark moments: the first time we understood what a truly mature planar magnetic driver could sound like. The first time a headphone disappeared and left nothing but music. The first time we heard an album we thought we knew — and suddenly realised we had missed half of it. The Peacock versions feel like a nod to those moments. Not “better,” not “faster,” not “more technical.” Just more… meaningful.

For Some, a Headphone. For Others, a Memory.

It’s rare that high-end audio produces something that feels personal, almost intimate. The Elite Peacock and Empyrean II Peacock manage exactly that. If you love headphones for what they do, you’ll admire them. If you love headphones for what they make you feel, you’ll remember them. Because every time you twist them in the light, they remind you: Music is not just something you hear — it’s something that moves.