[Quadfather]

what do you mean by that? so do you don't like the 109?

I like the 109 Pro with a limited amount of music. Meditation, chakra, rieki, and jazz are all great on it. For my tastes overall:

1) Shure SRH1540
2) Sennheiser HD660S2
3) Audio-Technica ATH-MRS7b
4) Meze 109 Pro

All are 4.4mm balanced. I had the Empyrean on tour for two weeks. I kept craving my Shure headphones over the Empyrean. Everyone's ears hear differently. My players are the two original Sony Signature DAPs and Lotoo Paw Gold Touch.

To be fair to the Meze 109 Pro headphones, I am getting the Shanling M30 Pro to try them on. Some say they're magic with more power. I go back and forth with them. Some days they pop and other days I don't like them. It's the strangest thing I've ever experienced with headphones. Tonight was a night where I switched right away. (Next morning) This morning I am now in a jazz mood and the 109 Pro makes that sound lively and great. Oh, the ups and downs. Again, this is a bizarre headphones phenomenon. It's never happened to me before. This morning, they're great.

The Shure and Sennheiser are beautiful with Lotoo Paw Gold Touch. The Audio-Technica ATH-MRS7b and Shure SRH1540 are great on the Sonys. The 109 Pro is used with Lotoo.

 

[nikbr]

Just swinging by to say hi to the fellow 109 Pro enthusiasts. These are my first serious HPs and what an experience they are. As a result, I'm definitely looking forward to demoing the 105 AEM at some point.

Current tunes:

 

[JRHIFI]

Hallelujah!!!
After leaving the Dekuni pads attached to the outer wood portion of the 109’s overnight, just tried to properly attach the left pad in the slot properly and was successful. The same with properly inserting the Dukoni pad on the right side. WHEW. I guess letting the rubber lips extend overnight made it open enough to attach the pads in the slots.

 

[Quadfather]

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[csch92]

who ever said that the 109 is not hitting hard is so damn wrong
to me the 109 hits really hard when listening to some techno, made me want to turn up the volume

 

[jsmiller58]

Life, and other gear, had me not paying nearly as much attention to the 109s as I should have been. Thanks to the recent activity on this thread getting my attention I pulled them out and have spent the last two hours on a cool, rainy, Sunday morning falling back in love with the 109s. Thank you all for the reminder!!!

 

[Quadfather]

Life, and other gear, had me not paying nearly as much attention to the 109s as I should have been. Thanks to the recent activity on this thread getting my attention I pulled them out and have spent the last two hours on a cool, rainy, Sunday morning falling back in love with the 109s. Thank you all for the reminder!!!

Some days I love them and other days I don't.

 

[Paulo Sergio Nied]

anyone still using the 109?
it is so interesting how some don't enjoy at all, and some love them to death.
but i guess that is pretty normal with every gear.
i love both my s2 and the 109.

Nonwithstanding the sibilant treble, I think it is a terrific pair of headphones. It is hard to find something better on its price range.

The sibilance can be tamed down with eq, but it is inevitable to loose a little bit of sound quality while doing it.

And the comfort is second to none.

 

[Quadfather]

Nonwithstanding the sibilant treble, I think it is a terrific pair of headphones. It is hard to find something better on its price range.

The sibilance can be tamed down with eq, but it is inevitable to loose a little bit of sound quality while doing it.

And the comfort is second to none.

Lotoo Paw Gold Touch has a PMEQ that doesn't seem to add distortion or reduce sound quality.

 

[Etx1]

Been using mine for roughly six months on a daily basis and thoroughly enjoy them.
Couple of things I have noticed, firstly if a recording is bad the 109's will definitely show it, and secondly the highs which need taming.
Luckily my Hiby Dap has a few options for tweaking the highs without any real detriment to the overall sound.

 

[jsmiller58]

Yeah, the HiBy MSEB and newly added PEQ (on at least some models) is great to customize so much gear. Today I was listening from my phone connected by BT to my Q15, running some EQ by way of Wavelet. I don’t have anything against EQ… maybe some in blind testing could detect a change in quality, but I know I cannot. I think of EQ like I think of salt, pepper, spices, cooking times… I customize food to my taste, so I customize sound to my taste . But I respect that not everyone sees it that way!

 

[NihilGuru]

Now this post does make me laugh. The 109 Pro need roughly 5ma of current RMS / 1mW / 0.2v to get to 110dB

There is no way a 24, 26 or 28awg cable is changing the sound based on the thickness. A thicker cable will not suddenly carry more signal, or make the sound have more body, that's your brain.

FYI I do believe in small audible differences in cables due to material differences, but headphone cables don't carry high current or voltage so anything above 28awg is absolutely fine.

too many ignorant and gullible people. The differences between cables are so subtle that they either don't exist/can't be measured or aren't perceptible to our ears. It is an ever-present topic as long as people believe in absolute uncertainties like God, they will also believe in strange fantasies like this or like the op amp switch etc etc The important thing is that it is a good cable, of the right thickness and built with good terminals, it does not need silver or gold or kryptonite. If there is and it costs the right amount, ok. Otherwise it is totally superfluous. There are people so crazy and full of cognitive biases that they "listen" to cables, without even measuring them. And all this for many years, spending staggering sums. I won't add anything other than that the subjectivist audiophile (stupidphile) is a strange guy who doesn't know any scientific subject but only personal opinions that perhaps grow on trees. Sorry for the bad English, probably.

 

[Tenashus1]

I'm just a happy camper when there are no microphonics.

 

[Tenashus1]

Little Feat (Waiting for Columbus) sounds fantastic on the 109; using Hiby FC4 through Audirvana. MQA.Wow.

 

[csch92]

what do people mean by speed when they talk about headphones? is the 109 a fast sounding headphone? can someone explain?