In my opinion nature and technology really don’t go together, to me they are at odds with one another. Technology to me is cold and hard and just not anything I would put together with something natural like wood. Wood is soft, organic and just really natural, you can’t really get much more natural than wood, to put it simply. It bugs me when I see things like an iPod dock dressed up in real wood or even fake wood, to me they just don’t go together at all, but that’s my opinion. To me, I love walking into a home and seeing the original wood trim work and hardwood floors and everything else that goes with that, it’s warm, and soft and just welcoming and really beautiful. Technology has its place, it’s here, it’s not going anywhere, nature has its place as well, it was here first and normally I think they just don’t mix. There is an exception to that though, and just one for me, and that’s sound. When you look at high end speakers, you’ll notice that they have one thing in common and that’s wood, their cabinets are made of natural wood and that’s because wood just helps to produce a better sound overall. The sound you get is more natural, it’s softer and more authentic and more organic really. In a speaker, technology and nature are combined or merged and work in harmony with each other to produce something amazing I think.

Today for review I’ve got a pair of headphones or earbuds from a company called Meze and they’re called the 11 Classics and what makes these special I think is the fact that they’re made of wood. The majority of headphones on market are plastic with some made of metal but not many from wood. I’m not sure why you don’t see more headphones made from wood. Take a look at speakers, the best ones are made from wood and they produce the best sound, so why don’t we see more wood headphones if we know that wood gives us a better sound overall? I don’t know the answer to that, but I do know the headphones I have for review today are very much worth a look if you appreciate good sound from your music. The Meze 11 Classics are priced at about $80 and that’s not overly expensive but it’s not exactly inexpensive either, I guess it depends on what you consider expensive or not. The headphones do come with a nice carrying case and I have to say that they are quality made overall. So read on…