If you get into your top Google gear on one Antonio Meze, you'll learn that in 2006, he began his technical training internship at Nectar Design, prototyping tech in the medical industry in Long Beach, California. A year later he was in Amsterdam doing an internship at Freedom of Creation in 3D printing. The following year saw him as senior product designer in structural packaging at Prague's Cocoon Group. By 2009, he designed motorcycle helmets, goggles and related protection gear with MotoDesignStudio of Hollywood. Overlapping all of that until 2010 was a parallel 4-year collaboration cycle with Brooklyn Workshop. 2010 had him investigate light armour material and design a ski pole for Atomic at And-Design. 2011 had him work on mobile phones and car interiors for Bangkok's Cerebrum Design. If you haven't yet made the hifi connection, rewind by one year. Set your sights on London. It's where and when he founded the Meze Audio brand, now Meze Headphones. Born in Romania, Antonio is just as fluent in English, then speaks more than passable German and Hungarian and is currently adding Italian and French. Quite the renaissance man. More interesting for the headfi geeks are his 99 Classics over-the-ear wooden headphones. Like fine variety on a Mediterranean meze platter, those are available in Walnut with black/gold trim or Maple with white/silver accents. Introduced at €309 with free shipping direct from their website, the 99 combine an almost impossible level of industrial design and execution with an online presentation that's as comprehensive, informative and easy on the eye as conceivable.