Although the sound is just about adequate, Dyson’s foray into audio technology continues with these heavy but colorful pair of headphones Hip-hop/pop star Badshah modeling the Dyson OnTrac headphones. Photo: Dyson “What headphones are those?” “They’re the new ones from Dyson” “Dyson? Like the vacuum cleaner?” The person sitting next to me on my flight to Delhi made no effort to hide his disdain. But I couldn’t blame him.
When your brand has created a product so incomparably iconic, it would be hard for people to take you seriously when you decide it’s time to segue into new frontiers. Kicking things off – Dyson takes product design very seriously. Everything it creates is masterfully engineered and is built with an intent – the intent to provide the consumer a sense of pride of ownership, the intent for every aspect of use feel like luxury and most of all, the intent for the product to last for longer than anything the competition can produce.
The Dyson OnTrac headphones are no different. Though; coming off the previous generation of Dyson Zone headphones where more jokes were produced than sales, you’d think they’d steer clear of the category. But, they’ve come back swinging.
And the OnTrac delivers quite the sonic punch. Testing the headphones has been a unique experience from the time the OnTrac showed up. They’re massive, and the case they come in is gigantic too.
So if you’re used to carrying around a smaller pair of headphones, you will.
