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Beautiful Listening with the Meze Audio 105-AER Open-Back Headphones
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May 29, 2025
Art Deco style is just the tip of the audiophile iceberg with the beautiful Meze Audio 105-AER Open-Back Headphones. They feature 50mm custom drivers with 5-30,000 Hz sound reproduction and are soooo comfortable. Audio expert Dave Taylor shares his experiences with the latest affordable audiophile headphones from Meze Audio. TL;DR they're darn nice. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/4k7Yb1b or directly at https://mezeaudio.com/products/105-aer?_ef_transaction_id=&oid=46&affid=220 Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 0:40 Specs 1:50 Auditioning the Headphones 3:00 Listening to Keith Jarrett 4:15 Downside? 5:00 Photo Closeups 5:42 Price and Conclusions #mezeaudio #headphones #audiophile #askdavetaylor
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ready to enjoy your music then you're
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going to love these headphones let's
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check them
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out Dave Taylor here with these These
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are the Mi audio 105 air open back
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headphones and as you can see they have
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a very distinctive Art Deco style really
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nice super comfortable they actually
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what they say self adjust they actually
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are very comfortable and this headband
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is going to float to give you just the
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perfect sort of comfort and they are
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very comfortable they feature let me
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pick them off again they feature 50 mm
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Dynamic drivers that are carbon fiber
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reinforced cellulose Dome and a
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semicrystalline Taurus 42 ohm impedance
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5 to 30,000 htz music reproduction way
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better than my hearing um an SP of 112
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DB and they weigh 11.8 Oz or 336 G so
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they are very lightweight in fact
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they're extraordinarily lightweight you
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will notice that each headphone has its
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own plug so there's no wire running
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between them or anything like that and I
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like that design it's slightly less
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convenient in terms of having it be like
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just the wire coming down one side but
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you know whatever it's pretty easy to
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work with and then you have a 1.8 meter
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cable let me pop this off and this is a
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Kevlar reinforced 3.5 mm cable and it
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comes with a/4 in adapter so you can
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screw this on if you have old style gear
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you can do it that way or you can just
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use the more modern 3.5 now for
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auditioning what I've been using is my
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iPhone paired with the IFI audio hip
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deck so it's this really nice elegant
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little digital analog converter that
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gives me basically a headphone amp which
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gives me even more music so that gives
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me more music and this gives me this
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lovely reproduction so a little bit more
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about the hardware pieces it's a zinc
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alloy Hardware with manganese steel
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spring on the headband and this is PU or
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artificial leather and then the actual
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ear cups are lore and the sorry the ear
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pads are velore I should say the ear
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cups are ABS PC
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plastic
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and it has a really nice build quality
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there's no real Plastics involved here
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it's really just a nice everything
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that's going to be moving is metal and
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this feels like something that you're
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going to be enjoying 10 years 20 years
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down the road it's really that nice and
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when I put them on and I put on some
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music I've been listening to some
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classic Keith Jarrett and I'll tell you
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that it is such a nice reproduction the
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open back design just gives you it's not
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an intensely isolating experience like
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some headphones which if you're in a
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quiet environment you don't want that
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you want to be able to just be able to
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have that sort of air pressure equalized
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while you're still listening to
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beautiful music and they do
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they do a really nice job reproducing
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music it really felt like I was in the
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studio with Keith Jarrett and that would
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be a pretty amazing thing to do but it's
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a warm reproduction and they do a little
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bit of boost on the low end to give you
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a little bit more Bas and they also say
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that they boost the subbase but I'm not
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sure I hear that uh suffice to say if
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you're listening to something that has a
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big drop or something this will
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definitely reproduce it in a really
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enjoyable way but if you're listening to
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classical or jazz or anything that has
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lots of detail music at different
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frequencies this is going to do a really
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nice job reproducing it nice big Sound
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Stage very comfortable for hours of
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listening the only downside is that this
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reproduces music so well that you're
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going to stop everything else you're
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doing and just close your eyes and just
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listen to the music and well maybe
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that's not a doubt
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downside suffice to say I am very
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impressed these are really nice and they
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are punching above their weight in terms
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of their price versus what you get in
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with comfort and music obviously
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reproduction and that's what this is all
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about everything else is secondary to
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the fact that they sound really really
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nice now you don't need a Dack you can
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plug them into really a wide variety of
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Music sources and they're all going to
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sound good but the better a signal you
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give it then obviously the better a job
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it's going to be able to do at
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reproducing and that's what I got here's
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a couple of close-ups so you can see
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again all the engineering and the design
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of this it does include a hard case not
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a huge fan of these but these headphones
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are probably worth protecting if you're
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traveling with them and then it does
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have that adapter and it has a fairly
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minimal instruction guide but honestly
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how much instruction do you need plug it
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in plug it into your music Source enjoy
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that's all you got so these are
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definitely ones to check out if you're
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ready to enjoy more of your music I am
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value very good now these are the M Audi
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AIO 105 air openback headphones and they
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are
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$399 at
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amazon.com I will tell you that they are
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some of the nicer headphones I've heard
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in quite a while and especially they're
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really comfortable I don't feel like my
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head's in a Vie I don't feel like
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they're going to slip off I can move
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around they're really secure on my head
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and of course that music reproduction is
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really very enjoyable able that's what I
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got hope to catch you in my next video
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