Product Description

Meze – Empyrean Chameleon Limited Edition

The Chameleon is a limited run of Meze’s Elite and Empyrean high-end headphones, launched at the Munich High-End Show in 2022. We’ll only have 22 units of these gems plus one that was given to Alan Parsons, the celebrity guest of the Munich High-End show.

Technically, they are pure Elite / Empyrean, but the grill lacquer is very special. It’s got a so-called Chameleon effect, which means it changes the color when you twist and turn it. Probably the rarest high-end headphones in the world.

The king of the kings

The Empyrean is distilled from technologies of two dedicated companies collaborating to see what further is feasible beyond their own capabilities. The result? A no-compromise design that combines Meze’s audacious aesthetic and user-centered aesthetics comes hand in hand with Rinaro’s expertise in planar magnetics design research and development.

Rinauro, an audio company with a long history, has a well-seasoned R&D team that has been at the forefront of planar magnetic development since the 80s at the heart of its technology. Their new cutting-edge industrial facility in Ukraine is state-funded with a focus on sonic evolution and innovations.

Unique Design and marvelous sound of Meze – Empyrean Chameleon

Every time we put on the Empyrean we could not stop listening. Probably can’t stop looking at the beautiful design every time you take it off either.

Sounding perfect with almost any genre, the Empyrean is a masterpiece of technology and design that combines the innovation of two companies.

The extremely musical performance and smooth vocal will put you in the mood in no second, no matter whether you are using a portable source or putting it on more capable amps the output will all be enjoyable while revealing the source’s character. There is no way you can resist its beauty and tuning qualities. Hear it to believe it.

Isodynamic Hybrid Array Driver Technology

Inside the artistic fiberglass-infused ABS framework you will find two Isodynamic Hybrid Array Drivers symmetrically installed on either side.

Strong neodymium magnets are positioned in a unique Hybrid Array to generate a powerful isodynamic magnetic field, creating uniform sonic impulses from all over the entire surface of the membrane. Producing 4650 mm² of the active area, the membrane weighs only 0.16 grams. The fiberglass-infused ABS frame ensures its durability.

What makes it even more special… Within the same diaphragm, two independently formed voice coils are combined to give a more selective acoustic performance to specific locations within the ear structure. Independently shaped voice coils are implemented in the Empyrean Driver, allowing sound to be custom-tuned with the highest accuracy in correspondence to the structure of the ear.

This unique combination maximizes direct sound wave frequency exposure over the 10kHz range, enhancing imaging and positioning by reducing the effects of dispersed field reflections’ shortwave time delays.
Each driver is handmade and carefully tested in an industrial facility in Ukraine.

Enhanced sound intensity and phase performance with unique multiple-coil technologies

Traditional planar magnetic arrays always distort the 3D sound image when reflecting signals with variable time delays. When directed toward the auricle and ear canal, the waveform corrected by the combination of multiple voice coils enables superior sound intensity distribution across the audible spectrum. Especially in the higher frequencies, which are often softened or distorting.

A design with Anthropometric measures in mind

Basically, The Empyrean comes with ergonomically designed, oval shape earcups with an anatomical design. Like a sports car, the weight and material are light but extremely sturdy to optimize not only useability and sonic reproduction qualities.

The formula for an F1 racing car, or a high-end audiophile headphone, is to optimize its output power, and fine-tuned to give it the best control, not to forget minimizing the weight as much as possible.

With an ovoid-shaped design, the framework is weight-reduced to the highest extent. It will match all ears with top-level comfort. The driver’s power output was maximized thanks to a wholly custom coil and special magnet array. Which has maxed out the driver’s active useable area within its ovoid physique.

Innovative Isomagnetic technologies

Lastly, The Isomagnetic® ear cup attachment is a unique creation that uses the demagnetizing field created by the driver to keep the ear cup in place. While simultaneously redirecting the magnetic field back into the driver and enhancing driver efficiency.
Furthermore, the magnetic stray field that affects the listener’s head reduced using ferromagnetic ear cushions. The patented ferromagnetic plates return the magnetic field to the driver, enhancing output power as well as the driver’s overall efficiency.

The result? This could be the sound in your audiophile dreams or Magnetos.

Meze – Empyrean Chameleon technical specifications

• Driver Type: Rinaro Isodynamic Hybrid Array
• Operating Principle: Open
• Ear Coupling: Circumaural
• Frequency Response: 4 – 110,000 Hz
• Impedance: 31,6 Ω
• Nominal SPL: 100 dB (1 mW / 1 kHz)
• Maximum SPL: > 130 dB
• Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): < 0.1%
• Weight: ~ 430 g

Meze – Empyrean Chameleon Driver Specifications

• Physical Geometrical Shape: Ovoid
• Size: 102 mm x 73 mm
• Weight: 82 g
• Casing: Fiberglass Infused ABS
• Diaphragm Type: Rinaro ISOPLANAR®
• Active Area: 4650 mm2
• Weight: 0.16 g
• Acoustic Mass: 10.7 kg/m4
• Lower Frequency Limit: 4 Hz
• Upper-Frequency Limit: 110.000 Hz

Magnet array

• Type: Isodynamic
• Size: 75 mm x 49 mm
• Magnetic Flux: 0.35 T