I kind of love this. Dyson has today detailed its Dyson Zone noise-cancelling, air-purifying headphones that will be releasing in early 2023 in select markets for $949 USD ($1,415 AUD).
The first-of-a-kind headset from Dyson will tackle both city noise and air pollution with 50 hours of battery life (audio only) or four hours of combined air purification and audio run-time, with charging to 100% taking only 3 hours.
Dyson says that the headphones take advantage of 30 years of Dyson’s expertise in airflow, filtration and motor technology as well as indoor and outdoor air quality. Compressors in each earcup draw air through dual-layer filters and deliver purified air through the mouth and nose, through the detachable visor.
Obviously, Dyson isn’t known for its audio, but it promises high fidelity, immersive audio with low distortion and a broad frequency range as well as microphones that allow phone calls, voice recording and more.
Dyson has also confirmed that the MyDyson app will be used to control the Dyson Zone noise-cancelling headphones to adjust airflow speed and noise cancellation as well as choosing between three EQ modes.
FULL DYSON ZONE HEADPHONES SPECS
- Engineered for ultra-low distortion: The speaker driver and electronics, mechanical system, materials, and acoustics have been carefully designed to minimise distortion. The driver output is further equalised by intelligent signal processing 48,000 times a second which combines with the noise cancellation to neutralise harmonic distortion to inaudible levels across the full frequency range (0.08% @ 94 dB @1 kHz).
- Advanced noise cancelling: 11 microphones feature within the product. The Dyson Zone™ headphones ANC system uses eight microphones which monitor surrounding noise 384,000 times a second. The Dyson Zone™ headphones offers up to 38 dB of noise cancellation from 20 Hz to 20 kHz.
- Faithful, full-spectrum audio: The Dyson Zone headphones goes beyond the audible to reproduce frequencies from 6 Hz – 21 kHz, ensuring every note or word is heard. It is more difficult for audio reproduction to be accurate at the extremes of the speaker’s frequency range, so by going beyond human hearing, the Dyson Zone™ headphones achieves greater clarity across the audible portion of the spectrum. Such a broad frequency range is down to the electroacoustic engineering system engineering and base components: 40mm, 16 ohm, neodymium speaker drivers sit at the heart of the audio system.
- Scientifically tuned to hear more detail: Driven by scientific metrics and validated by broad user trialling, Dyson engineers identified the specification that gives the most clarity and detail across the full audio spectrum. Dyson has created a unique EQ setting that optimises the frequency curve for clear, pure audio across the full audible frequency range, to deliver a high-fidelity audio experience.
- Immersive listening in complete comfort: No two heads are the same and this variation impacts many elements of comfort as well as audio performance, including the clamp force of the headband, the geometry and materials of the detachable visor, the adjustability of the product and much more. The ear cushions are purposefully flatter than conventional ear cushions for both passive attenuation and comfort, and the cushions are angled to align with the ear for optimal comfort.
