MAGICAL SYNERGY — BAKOON AMP-13R & MEZE EMPYREAN
WHAT:
The Bakoon AMP-13R ($6000) is much like a great leader or coach or a superstar athlete in that its inclusion with any combination of capable components will lift all boats to levels that they may not have experienced, previously. Please don’t take my word for it, seek out the Bakoon AMP-13R and discover this for yourself. The truth in this case will be in the listening and the subsequent lifting of all boats/components in your respective, head-fi systems. Finally, the Bakoon AMP-13R performed flawlessly over the course of its entire stay!
The Bakoon AMP-13R is a form-follows-function, work of modern art. Further, the AMP-13R is incredibly transparent, of a natural/organic musicality, and wondrously engaging. It is our latest DIAMOND award winner.
The Meze Empyrean ($2,999) is an anomaly, in that it handles the entirety of the frequency spectrum spectacularly well. And it eschews contradictions across this spectrum by delivering an “evolved experience” that ‘harmonizes’—gorgeous musicality, exquisite transparency, unparalleled comfort, and truly fine, functional, Modern Art. Together these attributes transport the listener to the original venue or to the remembered venue and the performance in question and in a very comfortable manner. The Empyrean creates a balance that so very few have achieved and that fewer still have achieved well.
Rare products deserve rare awards. That said, we enthusiastically award the Meze Empyrean: Isodynamic Hybrid Array Headphones our DIAMOND award, which is our highest award given in recognition of innovative, boundary-jumping design, Top-Of-The-Line (TOTL) transparency, coupled with outstanding, natural musicality. Very highly recommended! Bravo!
WHY:
Two incredible components, both of which are DIAMOND award winners, one of which is a Best of the Year Product for 2020—Meze Empyrean—with the other very much in the running for that designation in 2021. This is truly another Magical Synergy that will beautifully play back, literally, all musical genres and with aplomb!
