The idea of developing headphones started in 2009, in a time when the founder, Antonio Meze, was traveling extensively while working as an industrial designer for different agencies or manufacturing companies.

That's what drove Antonio to start experimenting with parts already on the market and acquiring knowledge about headphones, using wood to craft the speaker enclosure cups,[2] a departure from the standard plastics and polymers commonly used until then.

In 2018 Meze Audio has partnered up with Rinaro Isodynamics, a company from Ukraine, which has been at the forefront of planar magnetic development since the 1980s.

[21] Soon after the Empyrean, Meze Audio created their first flagship In-ear monitor, Rai Penta,[22] with 2 x dual BA's and 1 Dynamic driver.

Together with Rinaro, the company has created two more products using variations of the same highly acclaimed Isodynamic Hybrid Array technology used in Empyrean - ELITE,[24] a headphone featuring the same design as Empyrean, which uses different materials for the driver to create a distinct sound, and LIRIC,[25] the first closed-back headphone powered by the Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver from Rinaro, reengineered for portable use.