DysonZone™ Noise-Cancelling Headphones

We all laughed (myself included) when these came out. They're absurd. The chinbar is so hilariously cringe. They're so bulky. And they were a GRAND. And Dyson isn't exactly known for... headphones.But now that they're seemingly sunsetting the product (or just lowing the price to a humane level) they are competitively priced against the Focal Bathys, so I figured I'd try it since many reviewers said they sounded fantastic.And they were so right. These are better than the Focal Bathys. Let me pitch these as a real product that you might be interested in.For starters, just ignore the chinbar. It's kinda cheap feeling and looks absurd. I'm going to give it a shot MAYBE when the pacific northwest fire season rolls around and we're all breathing campfire smoke, It might be fun to try. But the headphones still work without the chinbar, and I'm going to review them like that. As a pair of headphones.Based on looks, these are stupidly good looking. They're very big, quite heavy, and very ostentatious, so if you require subtlety and light weight, these won't satisfy. But they are EXTRMELY comfortable, with a perfect clamp force on my large motorcycle helmet sized head and average ears, and the headband has given me no hotspots in hours of use. It almost feels like a suspension setup. The pads are just lovely to touch. The whole thing is frankly. Everything is gorgeously machined metal. they even painted the inside of the silver filter grates just to give it a subtle blue shadow effect. And the blue. This ultramarine blue is simply stunning. Like, this might be my new favorite shade of blue. I want a car that's this color. A couch. It's a ROYAL blue through and through, almost violet in low light, to a vivid, ultra saturated blue under sunlight. I'm seriously not capable of selling how amazing the paint/anodizing is.The whole thing (minus the cheap plastic feeling chinbar that kinda had to be for weight unless they went carbon fiber) truly feels like a thousand dollar product. From the swivels to the pivots, the fit and finish, even the case has the single most satisfying knob ever to lock it. EVEN THE USB-C CABLE has machined and custom silicone strain relief and a custom braid that matches the pouch for the chinbar, and it all fits nicely into the far too nice, far too bulky case that I kinda love to interact with.The app works. It's the same app dyson uses for their other products. It has some fun health info, the headphones (while the fans run) measure ambient NO2 levels and give you an AQI snapshot. It tells you the decibels outside the headphones and inside (so you can kinda know if you're playing your music too loudly) and it has three basic EQ settings - I went with bass boost because I want a fun EQ setting when I'm using wireless headphones. Some reviewers have mentioned an 8khz peak on graphs - it really doesn't have any sharpness around there. It's not overly warm and smooth, but it's not shouty or sibilant either. But I also would have really appreciated if they included a custom EQ option. I'll talk more about the sound later.The earcups are pretty deep and the pads are lovely - dyson doesn't sell replacements, but they are attached to a frame that quarter-turns off, and I'm thinking any good XL sized round pad from dekoni or the like will fit over the frame (you do have to peel them off the frame though so I'm not going to try, but I'd call it a 95% confidence.)The controls are a minor weak point. You have to tap on the headphones anywhere twice to switch between ANC on and transparency. I would have preferred they include an ANC off mode in that, but you can turn it off manually in the app. And you have to get used to RAPPING your finger on them, not a gentle capacitive touch, two thumps - I like doing the sides of the headband and found it the most reliable. The knob on the back is nice to use, but isn't programmable either. It'd be nice if it was.The biggest let-down to me is that they can't do wired audio via the USB-C. It only charges. I don't know if Dyson could add that function via firmware update or if they only wired that usb-c port for voltage, but I really, truly wish that I could use them wired, because eventually the batteries will wear out and I absolutely adore the way they sound, and they're built like heirloom headphones. They are somewhat disassemble-able, but I think the batteries are in the headband, which doesn't look like it is. Either way, if I can get 5-10 years out of them, I'll be happy.Now, for the ANC. It's absolutely, positively top tier. Airpods max top tier. Essentially ZERO pressure and zero white noise hiss. They iron out a good amount of high frequencies too. If you're playing anything, even at low volume, someone speaking directly to you is completely silent. And the passthrough is equally phenomenal. No robotic noises at all, it's genuinely fine to just put 'em in passthrough and have a full conversation. I can even listen to media on my TV with them in passthrough and it sounds like 95% like I'm wearing nothing at all. The ANC can't quite mask the fan noise when the chinbar is running, it's still there and slightly intrusive, but as headphones alone, the ANC is on par with the kings. Doesn't have issues with loud sudden clapping/banging noises like slamming a cabinet, doesn't get confused and angry by low thrumming noises like the engines on the ferry I commute on (many ANC products fail here and try to murder me by not being able to keep up and going out of phase) and high winds don't phase it whatsoever.And now for the sound. Like I said in the title, these are the best sounding wireless headphones I think money can buy. Some people are liking the audeze maxwells, and while those are cheaper, they don't have ANC, so I consider them a different product - though wireless 90mm planars are something I very much need to get a pair of. I haven't tried some of the other megapremium options, but these are right in the focal bathys and airpods max range right now, and they absolutely demolish the airpods and I think between the bathys and these, the Dysons win handily. With the bass boost, they are fun, lively, not fatiguing, and just phenomenal all-rounders. The bass goes ALL the way down, with the sub bass rumble in something like "children of the omnissiah" being intense as it sweeps down to like 20hz. The midbass is punchy and impactful, with very, very minimal bleed into the lower mids. the mids are full and clean, with well defined layering and separation, excellent placement and imaging, and a solid soundstage. The treble is clear and clean, not too shimmery, and I honestly can't pick out that supposed 8khz peak. Whoever tuned these is a master. If your only frame of reference is bose, apple, sony XM's, or sennheiser momentum, these are in a whole other class of fidelity. These have a cohesively superb sound that's pushing up into the range that I'd put my $3000 grado GS3000's in.They use LDHC for a codec, which is the absolute highest bitrate possible, and pushing for what FLAC itself can do, so I really can't detect any loss or compression compared to my wired headphones. I've noticed no meaningful delay or lag with them either, gaming is just fine (and the imaging and placement really, really make them good gaming headphones)Which brings me to the final thoughts - at ~$550, these are maybe the best wireless, ANC headphones you can buy. The whole package is supremely luxurious, and dyson clearly spared ZERO expense in quality of build/materials, and on the professional expertise of sound engineers to tune the ANC and passthrough to rival apple, and the sound quality to go toe to toe with the real audiophile heavy hitters.But the fact that they're now at a reasonable price makes me concerned about something - support. I think we all know these were a marketing idea that dyson took way, way too seriously in making a legitimate product. But I am worried about dyson continuing to support them for 5 or 10 years with earpads, replacement chinbars as they break, extra filters (they only come with one single set) or software/firmware updates to keep them working well as technology marches on. That part gives me pause.And to be honest, Dyson could have a potential market leading idea here. Take out the air filters and fans (which I know, kinda makes them no longer "dyson") and use this audio tech and ANC in a smaller, lighter headphone, and only ask $400-500 for them - they'd be a legitimate headphone manufacturer and a seriously competitive option. But for what they are now, if you're down with a bit of a gimmick in design and potentially not much more support, they're still a super compelling product. Also the chinbar makes for some hilarious "hey wanna see the stupidest product ever made?" conversations with your coworkers.

I got these on sale for half the original price on Amazon, so as a collector of wireless headphones it was worth the shot. I can say I’m pleasantly surprised and impressed with the sound quality. It’s up there with higher end headphones like the Focal Bathy’s and B&O H95’s. The build quality is fantastic as you would expect from Dyson. The app is very good….which leads me to the air purification. The amount of data on air quality is impressive. I can definitely see in a city like New York that the air features could be beneficial. Two problems. The air filter attachment could not be more plasticky, flimsy garbage. It’s embarrassing from r Dyson. Second, they just look ridiculous with the air filter on. Like a prop from a bad sci fi film. They blow cold air at your nose, but I can’t stand the thing all the way round. These were worth $499. I wouldn’t pay more personally. Happy with them for the sound quality. Wish there was a full 5 band EQ, but the presets do work fine. I like them.

I bought this for the air purification. I have allergies and asthma. And I live in a rural part of my state. From smokers to wildfire smoke, to pollen and pollen... And more pollen... The outdoors and I don't get along.This is amazing. It's the future. And it makes me look like an anime cyborg.It has the right blend of real world purpose. I truly hope Dyson stays at it with the Zone in their growing headset family. I'll keep buying newer models.

I tried to like this thing, but it just has so many issues I cannot. I am not going to talk about how it looks, because I knew going into this that wearing headphones with a weird visor was going to look absolutely absurd.The air filtration only works with the visor attached, so you can only get purified air when you have the silly thing in front of your face. That is a silly design decision, as it would be fantastic if this could send out a stream of air around my face rather than directed straight at my face. I think that the air is activated when the magnets on the visor connect, so am going to experiment with a workaround (and maybe break off the visor magnets) to get non-visor air flow working.The air flow from the visor goes to my mouth and nose, but also to my eyes and after about 10 minutes of use I was already having dry eye issues. I suppose if you live in a humid area that is less of a concern, but here in the desert it made wearing this pretty uncomfortable.The visor juts out enough that it restricts your downward vision. Want to glance down at your feet while wearing this? Too bad. Want to recline and look at your phone? Forget it.So the visor is basically a total bust. Even without factoring in how absurd it looks, it just is not a good feature at all. It dries my eyes, obstructs my vision, and is annoying in all respects. Good luck talking, eating, or drinking with this thing on.That leaves the headphones. They are fine. The sound quality is very good and the noise cancelling is very good. Add in the fan noise and they probably have some of the best noise cancelling around. They are very comfortable (great ear pads), but are heavier than other high quality headphones I own. You can get headphones that are lighter, equally comfortable, better (or equally good) sound quality, and equally good noise cancelling for a small fraction of the price of these behemoths.It is pretty rare that I regret picking a product from the Vine program, but I definitely regret this one. While I did not have to pay full price, I could have gotten the newest flagship sony's for the amount of income tax I am going to have to pay for these silly things.EDIT: after disassembling the visor and figuring out how to use air filtration without the whole visor in place, I am bumping up my review from a two star to a three star. The visor has two Torx screws on each side of it near where it connects to the headphones. If you remove those you lose the face shield and end up with two short stubs that magnetically attache to the headphones. Those will activate the airflow feature. Those stubs direct air forward, and I can still feel fresh air coming past my face. This eliminated the vid ability issues, the absurdity of the face visor, and the eye dryness issues that I had. With the air on, noise canceling is a little better as you have some additional white noise. It would be fantastic if Dyson included an attachment like this, so that you don’t have to disassemble the visor. They could even include a little directional piece at the end that would let you direct your flow a little bit better. With this hack, air goes straight out and provides at least son purification and your breathing so. As an added bonus, if you look at somebody, you turn into a little fan for them. Much better products with this mild modification.

Dyson has been extremely dodgy about the future of this product. In March 2025 Woot! (an Amazon company) was blowing them out for a little over $300. Now, less than a month later, they’re no longer available on the Dyson USA website. Buyer beware!