
Meze Audio ASTRU
A warm, featherweight titanium single-DD that most reviewers find smooth and luxurious — and a vocal minority hear as edgy or sibilant, because its uneven treble moves with your ears and your tips.
8 reviews
Design-led headphones & IEMs
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Meze Audio is a Romanian headphone company founded in 2011 by industrial designer Antonio Meze and based in Baia Mare, known for a design-led aesthetic and repairable, long-lived headphones and IEMs.

A warm, featherweight titanium single-DD that most reviewers find smooth and luxurious — and a vocal minority hear as edgy or sibilant, because its uneven treble moves with your ears and your tips.

The walnut closed-back that made Meze's name — loved for its looks and light weight, argued over for a bass shelf that is fun to some, bloat to others, and much smaller on newer units than its reputation says.

Meze's $6,000 summit-fi planar — big, speaker-like and all-day comfortable, but whether its warm, relaxed voice is lush or veiled, and worth twice an Empyrean II, splits the room.

Everyone admires how it's made and nearly everyone finds it comfortable — then the arguments start: sparkle or sibilance, wide or modest, resolving or merely pleasant, bargain or boutique tax.

Everyone agrees it is beautiful, comfortable and isolates well. Whether it sounds dark or bright depends on whose ears you ask.

Everyone agrees on the wood, the comfort and the mids. Nobody agrees on the bass, the treble or the price.

One of the comfiest open-backs at the price — and reviewers cannot agree whether it is dark or bright.

Flawless build and all-day comfort wrapped around a safe, fun tuning — the only real fight is whether $159 buys a bargain or a Meze badge.
Prices in USD, recorded when each review was updated.