High-end headphone specialist Meze Audio today announced a new model that improves one of its most advanced planar-magnetic designs. An update of the original Empyrean, the Empyrean II headphones feature an advanced Isodynamic Hybrid Array driver developed by the Ukrainian R&D company Rinaro, which was founded during the Cold War to innovate in the field of electro-acoustics and has been focused on perfecting planar-magnetic diaphragms for almost 40 years.