MZ4 Liric Isodynamic Hybrid Array Driver
The Meze Liric is the first closed back headphone in the world to be powered by Rinaro’s Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver technology. Created exclusively for Meze Audio the MZ4 driver offers the same dual shaped voice coil array seen in the flagship Meze Empyrean headphone in a scaled down size. Over 30 years of research and development have gone into the Isodynamic Hybrid Array technology resulting in one of the lightest and most advanced planar magnetic drivers on the market.
The MZ4 combines individual switchback and spiral shaped voice coils in the one driver, their unique shapes allow sound to be targeted with more accuracy around the natural form of the ear. This combination has allowed for an increased exposure of direct sound wave frequencies over the 10kHz range and improved imaging and localisation by decreasing the impact of short wave time delays caused by diffused field reflections.
A new innovation to the MZ4 driver developed in-house by Rinaro Isodynamics is the Phase-X™ system which improves ambience and spatial sound imaging often found to be a problem in closed back headphone designs.
An Isodynamic Hybrid Array Driver in a portable size
The scaled down Isodynamic Hybrid Array Driver in the Meze Liric headphone delivers the same audio quality as its larger counterpart found in the flagship Meze Empyrean headphone. Two independently shaped voice coils are combined within the same diaphragm delivering more selective acoustic performance to the various areas within the structure of the ear.
Dual drive efficiency at higher frequencies
At frequencies above 10kHz, where sound wave length is smaller than the cushions inner cavity, the sound field becomes diffused with an amount of the direct and reflected sound waves within the ear canal.
A significant increase of direct sound waves can be achieved by positioning the most efficient part of the diaphragm in mid-high frequencies directly over the ear canal resulting in improved 3D imaging and spatial localisation.
Revolutionary Phase-X™ technology delivers immersive spatial sound imaging
An innovation to the MZ4 driver is the Phase-X™ system created by Rinaro as a way to minimise phase distortion issues, typically found in closed-back headphone designs. This patent-pending technology helps deliver immersive spatial sound imaging.
The Phase-X™ system improves the accuracy of spatial imaging, in line with its open back counterparts, especially noticeable on binaural recordings.
ORIGINAL SOURCE RECORDING
Absolute linear phasing offers the listener the original spatial image as it was recorded. This includes information from the instrumentation as well as the recording environment itself.
NON LINEAR PHASING
Phase distortions, typically found in the conventional closed-back headphone designs, noticeably affect the reproduction of the spatial image of the original recording.
Phase-X™ SYSTEM
With the addition of the Phase-X™, LIRIC achieves a correct phase response and a faster transient response decay. This allows for a more faithful reproduction of transient sounds and improves ambience and spatial imaging for the listener, taking them closer to the environment of the original source recording.
