Audio meses Do not make a headphone system for precision status symbols for people who alphabetize your vinyl by mastering engineer. At the high -end -München 2025, roll out the type of equipment that tops the blood pressure in audiophile forums: 105 Silvaa Open-back Heavily with vintage outlet and the ultra cable with silver-cut high-flyer, who convinced you to convince your last upgrade, was an error.
The modern in the middle of the century meets Eastern European Mojo
The meze audio 105 Silva is what happens if someone says at Meze: “What if the 105 Aer had a design baby with the 109 professional and gave it some Titan -Vitamine?”
The 105 Silva’s Walnut Wood Ohrcups, which are freshly ground, not only for looks, but also for a solid, durable feeling. The reinforced polymer frame is also not only a cost-saving subsequent thought of thought, contributes to the strength, without the whole thing feels like a tank. Meze clearly sticks to the fact that it “design it as if it belongs to a museum mantra and you are not wrong here.
It is a sharp -looking piece, but the real kicker is that you actually ensure that it sounds good. Something that you don’t always see in designs so ambitiously – sometimes everything is style and not a substance. Not here.
In the heart of the 105 Silva there is a 50 mm dynamic driver with a cellulose composite dome and a half-crystalline polymer torus coated with Titan (e.g. five times fast). There is also a copper zinc stabilizer that is thrown into a good measure-apparently simple copper is simply not enough.
In view of the design decisions, we rely on the 105 Silva, which supports a clear, precise and possibly warmer sound profile than its more industrial siblings in the 105 series.
Meze stood quite consistently with her coordination and favored a natural, balanced presentation – so you don’t expect anything that hits her face with bass or shrill heights. It will probably be in a comfortable place between “audiophile reference” and “Hey, I can actually enjoy it” without leaning too much in both extremes.
Customers asked something with a little more sophistication. If the Silva does not deliver this, Meze may have only designed a really expensive paper weight. But she knows her and will probably do it.
105 legacy: the family that plays together
The 105 series has always worn as if it had something to prove. The 109 Pro was the first -born – refied, technically sharp and confident enough to speak the tuning. Then came the 105 aer, the high-quality high-flyer heat, smooth and so easy to drive it practically with a mood. Now there is the 105 Silva, the design school siblings with a feel for drama and titanium edge. It is more striking, sharper and could be the most talented of the bunch.
Where Aer was the all -rounder, Silva is more sophisticated and specialized. More oriented middlers. More microdetail. More “We have heard that you have updated your DAC, now hear that.”
And in contrast to his isodynamic cousins (Hello, Empyrean II and Elite), the 105 Silva holds dynamically and delivers a more classic driver sound – fast, powerful, human.
Ultra cable: For the audiophile that has everything (except shame)
If the 105 Silva was not enough, Meze also presented the ultra cable. What is an expensive headphones when it is tied to a garden variety cable?
Ultra is a 99.99999% pure silver, zero-tight and 40-ladder snake that promises to “minimize resistance” and “to improve signal transmission”. And it could. Or maybe it only looks like a silver necklace of 500 US dollars and gives your setup the aesthetics “I summer in Bucharest”. In any case, it is beautiful, overemphasized and completely striking what as audiophile eat it.
Basically, it is ended in every taste 3.5 mm, 4.4 mm, 6.3 mm and even 4-pin XLR if they are this type. And yes, it works with the Elite, Empyrean II and probably regret with your future.
Meze Audio 105 Silva – previously specifications
As shown in High -end -München 2025 (Advance Preview; End product details can vary)
| specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Tribute type | Dynamic, 50 mm |
| Dome | Cellulose network |
| Surround | Titan-coated semi-ristalline polymer |
| stabilizer | Copper |
| Impedance | 42 Oh |
| sensitivity | 112 db SPL at 1 kHz, 1 MW |
| Frequency response | 5 Hz – 30 kHz |
| Weight | 354 grams |
| Earbug | Walnut wood with PC-ABS polymer |
| Headband | Self -prescribed spring steel |
| Design features | Fully maintained and modular design for long -term durability and comfort |
Meze Audio Ultra Cable – previously specifications
Shown as new accessories at High End Munich 2025; to change before publication
| specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Director | 7n purity (99.9999%) High-pros |
| configuration | 0.08 mm x 40 ladder, braided from 16 to 8 wires |
| Headphone end connector | Dual 4-pin mini-XLR |
| Source-end connection options | 3.5 mm, 4.4 mm, 6.3 mm, 4-pin XLR |
| Shells and Y splinters | Throw the zinclegation with PVD coating |
| dielectric | PVC |
| Lengths available | 1.2 / 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 meters |
| Solder | Jensen 5% silver |
The end result
Meze Audio does not play it safe – and thanks everything that is left for. The 105 Silva proves that they are still swinging for the fences and mixes Design Bravado with sound precision in a way that only a few brands dare to try. It is brave, it is beautiful and we suspect that it sounds damn good – another memory that Meze is not just in the headphone business. They are in the business to let the rest of the industry sweat.