Tenchiboy t1_iy2w0ax wrote
Meze 99 did absolutely nothing for me even in that price range.
I would find a shop where you can trial tons of headphones. I have to take a speed train, usually spend a weekend out of the house, and travel a bit by local trains just to get to one, but I do it. It has informed all my buys.
I bought DT990s blind. If I had been able to compare to others across price ranges, I would have skipped.
Now very happy with my small collection.
DogronDoWirdan OP t1_iy32vlh wrote
I tried a bunch of headphones in the story before buying Meze 99, and I liked them the most. Maybe I’m stupid, everyone seem to hate them for some reason on this sub.
Tenchiboy t1_iy34idc wrote
Curious about what else you tried.
I just found the Meze 99s aethetically nice, but not built to really keep those aesthetics. The metal was tarnished and I did not like the looseness of the cups.
It's a journey, man.
Years ago, I got Grados SR225s after trialing them for a week from a friend. I then years later got DT990s blind because they have more bass. There's a whole world out there. I eventually wanted detail first and foremost. It's a bitch sometimes because you can hear overcompression so easily, but for a lot of stuff it's glorious.
My advice is to try as much as possible because you don't know what's out there or how comparable it is until you listen to it. Find your preferences. Listen to music and enjoy it!
You'll learn first hand why planars are different than dynamic drivers. Which you prefer. etc. Enjoy it.
DogronDoWirdan OP t1_iy35lh3 wrote
I don’t really remember what else I tried sadly because that was more than a year ago and since then I never bothered with trying anything else.
I do think that after AirPods / cheap Sony headphones anything would sound godsend.
Now I do hear I think “problems” in sound of Meze’s.
In the new country where I live for 9 months now there are no musical shops almost at all, so I don’t have any choice to listen to something.
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