 This video is brought to you by the Intel Core i5-4670K unlocked processor. Add an Intel 520 series SSD to your Haswell system for unbelievable overall performance. This is a bit of an interesting unboxing. These are the Meze 11 Classics designed by Antonio Meze, and what they are are they are wooden earbuds, which sounds like sort of a mixture of sort of super high technology and like, you know, carving things out of wood. But there is a practical reason for using wood as a material to make audio products. So the objective here was to deliver a very warm natural sound with earbuds that have a style that really can't go out of style. So inside the box you find not a whole lot other than a carrying case, which is great because personally I actually am guilty of doing this. I carry my headphones in my pocket with no carrying case at all, and that's an easy way for them to get damaged. So we're going to go ahead and sort of assume that a carrying case that will easily fit in your pocket is something that you could easily carry around with you. Packaging wise, Meze doesn't say too much about these. Handcrafted ebony wood chamber reproducing crisp but warm natural sound, okay. Dedicated 8 millimeter neodymium drivers. Wow. Incorporate microphone. It looks like they're missing an eye there. Compatible with iPhone, iPod mp3, mp4. Comes with three sizes of soft silicone earbuds and an EVA case for carrying. Okay, so sensitivity 101 plus or minus two decibels impedance. So we're missing an eye again. Look at that. 14 ohms frequency response 16 hertz to 24 kilohertz and rated input power three megawatts. So okay, so the packaging isn't the greatest thing in the world, but quite frankly I don't care about packaging very much as long as the headphones themselves are freaking awesome and from my research about these headphones and my level of excitement about checking them out, I am expecting them to be freaking awesome. Everything that I'd seen about them already indicated that they were great and then Logan from Texindicate posted his review the other day indicating that they were great and that is from an audio recorder's perspective, not an audio recorder like one of these, but an audio recorder like someone who composes and records audio. So Logan has some pretty cool tracks that he does and he was saying that he was using these and didn't even realize that he was using earbuds which he normally doesn't prefer to use. So that is a very, very strong statement indeed. So the headphones, the earbuds themselves look absolutely fantastic. I'm maybe, I don't know if this makes me like a hipster or whatever then it is what it is, but I mean the look of natural wood grain on a product is not beatable by any kind of artificial finish that you can put on it. So at the back you've got a simple Meze logo, there's a little hair on it, there we go, it's gonna come off, come off, come on, there we go, yes. Okay you've got a simple little Meze logo then you've just got a beautiful naturally finished wood grain followed by what appears to be, that must be plastic and there's that massive 8mm driver. So 8mm drivers are going to be able to just deliver just plain more sound, particularly bass to your ears than smaller drivers would. What I'm expecting about these based on that is that they're not going to fit really deep inside the ear canal like something like a Steel Series Flux in-ear does, but they'll fit more around sort of the opening of the ear canal. So I'm expecting to wear the medium-sized tips and it looks like that's going to be about right for me. Now they don't stick out super far but they also don't sit really flush inside the ear like the Steel Series Flux in-ear Pros do with their more hearing aid based shape. The ear sides are clearly marked, this I actually appreciate because when you're looking around for them in the dark, particularly with earphones that don't feel that different up at the top, it's nice to have those clearly labeled. However, due to the integrated microphone you can also use that to find which one's left. The mic is always on the left from my experience so there you go there's an integrated microphone that is very very very simple. If there was anything I had to complain about with these headphones it would probably be the construction of the microphone, it feels a little bit on the sort of not that fantastic side but it's not the end of the world I wouldn't expect to be using it much. It's got a simple button for taking calls and all that but there you have it and again based on Logan's review the recording quality of the microphone is actually not bad at all. The cord itself is braided so you shouldn't have to worry too much about it being damaged by cats or other critters that might want to well damage it and then up at the top we've got a bit of a unique shape to the jack so rather than going with a straight jack or with a right angle jack it looks like Meze has hedged their bets a little bit and gone with a 45 degree angle jack which should in theory be 45 degrees as opposed to not being 45 degrees. Noise isolation is already outstanding I forgot that when I plug things into my phone my music starts immediately so I can't hear a bloody thing I'm saying right now so hopefully it's all coherent. I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Meze A11 Classic headphones don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and these sound fantastic.